UK Hockey Pay: What's the Average?
Mateo McKenzie
2025-05-06 21:25:19
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UK Hockey Pay: More Than Peanuts?
Average salaries are believed to be in the range of £12,500 to £47,000 for players in the Elite League. There are other benefits however, mainly that the the league does not play excessive amounts of games, travel between teams for matches is short and many cities in the UK are desirable places to live.
On the show, he explained that players in the Elite League earned approximately $17,000 to $65,000. This equates to roughly £12,500 to £47,000 (based on exchange rates and whether he was talking about Canadian or US dollars will make a small difference). Its hard to tell how much other players get paid in other leagues but in general the average salary seems roughly the same as the Elite League.
Flavie Turner
2025-04-27 22:51:37
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* UK Hockey Pay: More Than Peanuts?
The UK’s EIHL ranks roughly in the middle of the pack for its pay as a top-flight European ice hockey league, with salaries ranging from around £12,500 to upwards of £420,000. Hundreds of hockey players across Europe are making at least a decent living, even if their salaries are a long way from the NHL's biggest stars. Salaries vary greatly between each European league, from around £12,500 to £3.4 million per year.
Lolita Swaniawski
2025-04-15 19:37:49
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For context, the very top players in the UK might earn £50k in the Elite League, but the average is half of that. Below that level no one is full-time just as a player. In 2021 and 2022 the GB national team played in the World Group of the World Championships alongside the US, Canada, Sweden and Russia. These players on below-average UK salaries competed alongside players earning in excess of $10m per year.
Darian Waters
2025-04-15 19:31:16
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UK Hockey Pay: More Than Peanuts?
The average player wage in EIHL equates to around £34,000. The level of finances that clubs have to utilise for player recruitment is simply in totally different stratospheres between the NHL and the EIHL. This suggests that the highest salary for a player in the UK league only amounts to a tiny fraction of the biggest contract in the NHL – the top earners in history may have penned contracts of around £50,000 per year.
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