Here is a list of current (17-18 season) manager salaries in Italy’s Serie A, courtesy Italian newspaper Gazetta. All figures are in million euros per season, after tax. 11 of the 20 managers earn more than a million euros.
Who is the highest paid manager in Italian football?
Juventus boss Massimiliano Allegri earns the highest wage, with the Bianconeri paying him 7 million euros a year as salary. Allegri earns three million euros more than the next best paid manager (Inter’s Luciano Spaletti at 4 million euros a year). Allegri’s wage is also just 500,000 euros lesser than Gonzalo Higuain, who at 7.5m euros, is Serie A’s best paid player.
Who earns the lowest among Italian Serie A managers?
It is Fabio Pecchia from Hellas Verona, who earns 250,000 euros a year.
List of Serie A manager wages (from highest paid to lowest paid)- 17/18
1) Massimiliano Allegri (Juventus- 7m euros)
2) Luciano Spaletti (Inter Milan- 4m euros)
3) Vincenzo Montella (Milan- 3m euros)
4 & 5) Eusebio di Francesco (Roma- 1.5m euros) & Sinisa Mihajlovic (Torino- 1.5m euros)
6) Maurizio Sarri (Napoli– 1.4m euros)
7 & 8) Simone Inzaghi (Lazio- 1.3m euros) and Gian Piero Gasperini (Atalanta- 1.3m euros)
9) Roberto Donadoni (Bologna- 1.2m euros)
10 & 11) Stefano Pioli (Fiorentina- 1.1m euros) and Marco Giampaolo (Sampdoria- 1.1m euros)
12 to 15) Marco Baroni (Benevento), Ivan Juric (Genoa), Rolando Maran (Chievo) and Massimo Rastelli (Cagliari)- all 600,000 euros.
16) Davide Nicola (Crotone- 500,000 euros)
17) Luigi Del Neri (Udinese- 450,000 euros)
18 & 19) Cristian Bucchi (Sassuolo) and Leonardo (SPAL)- both 400,000 euros
20) Fabio Pecchia (Hellas Verona- 250,000 euros)
The graphic below is a Serie A wage bill by club. Interesting to compare the order of best paid managers and the overall wage bills of their clubs. Torino, for instance, have the 7th highest wage bill among the 20 teams, but their manager is the fourth best paid one in the league.
