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EXCEED A QUARTER OF A MILLION EUROS PER YEAR

Is it a fair salary? The millions that Spanish referees get paid in LaLiga

Published:4/04/2024 - 17:51h

Updated:4/04/2024 - 18:59h

It has already been mentioned previously that referees in Spain receive a salary that is perhaps too high, and this Thursday in England they have 'confirmed' that with information regarding the figures they receive per year

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In a moment that little it does him fault another controversy more to the arbitration in the Spanish football, The Athletic has desvelado how works the remuneration of the referee's community in LaLiga, as well as also in the Premier League. And it is that the figures that the half British details gives a lot of what think on the level that exhibit a lot of referees in the field and how are recompensados economically by this performance.

And it is that already there is split by the fact that have a fixed wage and that will not go down of the 145.000 euros that each one has assigned of annual way, although they are showing bad decisions or interpretations in the parties. Besides, the information signals that the referees of LaLiga receive an extra of €4.900 by party, that is to say, almost 5 one thousand euros for being in the field like main judge in each meeting.

The referees in Spain can earn more than some footballers

It is necessary to stand out that the figure diminishes to the half, €2.450, in the case that they are referees of VAR, something that also seems striking if we take into account that in a lot of parties even do not participate, still when there is played that seems to require them. But to the margin of this income, the referees also receive a total of €25.570 by rights of image, related with the utilisation of advertising in his uniforms.

Taking into account that they are used to to arbitrate some 20 parties to the year and 10 of VAR, the annual wage can oscillate between the €250.000 and the €300.000 gross, a figure that after taxes equally will be above the 100 one thousand annual euros, or what translates in near or more than €10.000 monthly, a wage that few works in Spain pay to the day of today.

In England himself that work with a more suitable system

Already regarding the Premier League, exists a scale for the remuneration of the referees that varied between €85.350, €122.750 and €171.700, depending on his experience and rank. Regarding the parties, in the English competition the referees earn €1.300 by party or €976 if they are referees VAR. Besides, the referees of the Premier also receive an extra bonus based in the quality of his performance and in the "key incidents of the party" with tarpaulins, everything very distinct to what sucede in Spain. Cloth.