Fifa Sees Wide Gap in Pay Among Women Footballers

The average annual salary for a female professional football player globally is US$10,900 (S$14,500), says Fifa's annual report on the women's game, a figure skewed by a small number of top clubs.

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LONDON - The average annual salary for a female professional football player globally is US$10,900 (S$14,500), says Fifa's annual report on the women's game, a figure skewed by a small number of top clubs.

Among the teams Fifa designated as Tier 1, which includes 41 clubs from 16 countries, the average salary was around US$24,030, although 16 of those top clubs paid an average gross salary of over US$50,000, according to the Setting The Pace, Fifa Benchmarking Report On Women's Football released on March 17.

The highest of those salaries was approximately US$120,000. The average gross salary, however, at Tier 2 and 3 clubs was US$4,361 and US$2,805, respectively.