Ratio of payroll costs for match operations to total revenue

With €1.67 billion in payroll costs, the Bundesliga clubs paid their players and coaches more in the 2023-24 season than ever before in the league’s history. Salaries increased by €57.8 million or 3.6 per cent compared to the previous season. At the same time, however, the Bundesliga’s total revenue rose by €349.5 million, causing the payroll cost ratio, which compares expenditure on players and coaches to the clubs’ income, to fall by a further 1.4 percentage points to 34.9 per cent. In the 2020/21 season, the payroll cost ratio was still 45.1 per cent, which means it has been reduced by 10.2 percentage points within three years.