Patty tops in Geelong salaries
FOUR Cats are among the best paid in the competition, including Patrick Dangerfield’s standing in the top echelon of player contracts.
It can be revealed Dangerfield’s salary of between $1m$1.05m is sixth highest in the AFL.
But that has been revised to $720,000-$756,000 because of COVID-19 reductions.
Dangerfield penned a contract extension until the end of 2024 last November and is tracking to win his eighth AllAustralian guernsey.
Amassing the salaries for the list required hundreds of calls with industry figures and weeks of cross-checking to build a complete picture.
News Corp’s list includes the player’s initial 2020 salary and then a revised figure taking into account this year’s “COVID cut” — players are each handing back about 28 per cent of that money.
Geelong recruiting target Jeremy Cameron sits atop the list with a revised earning of $1.08m-$1.116m this year.
Cats captain Joel Selwood comes in 13th, taking home between $612,000-$648,000 this year. Selwood is out of contract at the end of next year.
Tom Hawkins, who turned 32 this week, rounds out the top 20 with a purse of $576,000-$612,000.
Hawkins’ deal expires at the end of this year and he will look at signing one-year deals from here on about $500,000 depending on how he is travelling towards the back end of the season.
Mitch Duncan is the 48th best paid player in the AFL with earnings between $504,000-$540,000.
The classy wingman bypassed his 2020 free agency rights when he signed a fouryear extension last year, keeping him at the club until 2024.