UK Ice Hockey Pay: What's the Real Number?
Robbie Bartell
2025-06-09 18:51:44
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Average salaries are believed to be in the range of £12,500 to £47,000 for players in the Elite League.
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.
The figures check out and are likely to have remained roughly the same in recent years. Given what the teams in the Elite league turnover financially and the costs of their overheads, these figures make sense.
The main difference, however, is the maximum salary. The price that the big stars and highest earning players make is different and relatively low in the UK, compared to others.
Assunta Bartell
2025-06-02 13:50:13
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Each Superleague team has a £400,000 salary cap, which means that an average player will be earning £20,000-£30,000 for an eight-month season (plus accommodation and a car).
Lora Jones
2025-05-22 21:00:05
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The average player wage in EIHL equates to around £34,000. This suggests 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.
Asia Parisian
2025-05-22 18:32:26
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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.
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