A year ago, Kylian Mbappe was sitting at the top, flaunting an incredible gross monthly salary of 6,000,000 euros! Since then, Mbappe has moved to Real Madrid, but Paris Saint-Germain has unsurprisingly retained the top spots on the list of the highest-paid players in Ligue 1. However, the new “number one” earns significantly less, as Ousmane Dembele receives exactly four times less than what Mbappe was making, according to the annual survey by the reputable L’Equipe.🚨 𝗟𝗘 𝗧𝗢𝗣 𝟭𝟬 𝗗𝗘𝗦 𝗣𝗟𝗨𝗦 𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗦 𝗦𝗔𝗟𝗔𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗦 𝗗𝗘 𝗟𝗔 𝗟𝗜𝗚𝗨𝗘 𝟭 𝗖𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗘 𝗦𝗔𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗡 ! 💰Sans surprise, 𝟭𝟬 𝗝𝗢𝗨𝗘𝗨𝗥𝗦 𝗗𝗨 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗦 𝗦𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗧-𝗚𝗘𝗥𝗠𝗔𝗜𝗡 🔴🔵Ousmane Dembélé domine le classement avec un salaire mensuel brut de… 𝟭 𝟱𝟬𝟬… pic.twitter.com/y5dA2Txs1i— Actu Foot (@ActuFoot_) March 25, 2025 Not that he has much to complain about—PSG still spends 1,500,000 per month on Dembele. In France, however, employees typically take home about 45% of their gross salary after taxes. Still, it’s more than enough, as Dembele earns 380,000 more than the next player on the list—his teammate Marquinhos, who has a gross salary of 1,120,000 before taxes. There’s nothing surprising about this, as PSG occupies the top 12 spots on the salary rankings. This has been the case for years, which is why many don’t take PSG’s domestic dominance too seriously—given such a financial gap, it would be embarrassing if they weren’t champions of France.PSG decide on a new, 90,000-seat stadiumBehind Marquinhos, it’s all PSG players: Lucas Hernandez, Achraf Hakimi, then 19-year-old Warren Zaire-Emery, followed by Vitinha, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Gianluigi Donnarumma, Nuno Mendes, Presnel Kimpembe, Bradley Barcola, and another teenager, Desire Doue, who earns 500,000 per month. For comparison, that’s the same salary as the highest-paid non-PSG player on the list—Marseille veteran Adrien Rabiot, who has 50 more international caps than Doue. The same amount is earned by Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg (86 caps for Denmark) and Alexandre Lacazette, the Lyon legend. Proof that experience still holds value—the same applies to Geoffrey Kondogbia, Ismael Bennacer, and Corentin Tolisso. Among them is also the much younger Mason Greenwood, who may not be earning as much as he would have if he stayed at Manchester United, but still lives quite comfortably with a 450,000 monthly salary. Slightly lower, but still in the top 30 highest-paid players, is Nemanja Matić, earning 400,000 per month at Lyon—identical to what Rennes pays Seko Fofana and Brice Samba. The highest-paid player at Nice is Gaetan Laborde with 320,000, the same amount Monaco pays Aleksandr Golovin and Denis Zakaria.Can Dembele be a candidate for Ballon d’Or at this pace?But all of this pales in comparison to PSG, where four players earn over one million per month, with many others not far behind. Even among managers, the situation isn’t much different—Luis Enrique earns a flat 1,000,000 per month at PSG, while Roberto De Zerbi makes nearly half of that in Marseille (550,000). Paulo Fonseca at Lyon earns three times less than Enrique, and Adi Hutter at Monaco exactly four times less.##NAJAVA_MECA_8808889##
