Italian Serie A is way more changed than it used to be few years back as now the participating clubs of this football event are starting to spend massive bids in order to recruit young, talented and expensive players in their playing squad. In current season 2018-19, the wage bill of top 5 clubs of this event has surprisingly increased. On the other end, the low performing clubs of Italian Serie A are still struggling to compete the leading clubs of this tournament in terms of spending and wage bills. Let’s take in-depth look at the wage bills of different top clubs of Italian Serie A.
In recent few years, the competition level in Italian Serie A has also decreased down and the main reason behind this decline is the failure of major football clubs of this tournament that remained unsuccessful to attract top notch football athletes from all round the globe. But it is expected that some dominating clubs of Italian Serie A would spend huge money during season 2018 to purchase some high profile footballers in their teams. Currently Juventus holds the highest wage bill in this tournament as their wage bill almost exceeds 145 million with the recruitment of C Ronaldo in their squad. The arrival of C Ronaldo in Juventus makes massive difference in their previous and current year wage bill as this legendary footballer is making around 31million per year whereas Juventus has also replace some big names from their team including Paul Pogba, Vidal and Tevez.
Another prominent FC of Italian Serie A is Inter Milan as this stand currently stands on 2nd place on the list of highest wage bills with around 120 million spending in current season. Back in 2015-16, Inter was positioned on 4th place and at that time their wage bill was around 94 million but after the arrival of Rajda Nainggolan for 38 million and Andrew Gravillon for 6.75 million their wage bill increased by 25% in 2018-19 season.
AC Roma with annual spending of around 92 million stands 3rd on this list, however their wage bill has dropped down from 113 million that was back in 2015-16 season. Currently Dzeko is the highest paid athlete in this team as he is earning 4.5 million per year whereas Patore with 3.5 million yearly earnings is the 2nd expensive signing of Roma in 2018-19 season.
| NO# | CLUB | 2016-17 WAGE BILL | 208-19 WAGE BILL | |
| 1 | Juventus | €122m | €145m | |
| 2 | Inter | €94m | €120m | |
| 3 | AS Roma | €113m | €92m | |
| 4 | Milan | €101m | €80m | |
| 5 | Napoli | €94m | €75m | |
| 6 | Lazio | €52m | €55m | |
| 7 | Fiorentina | €46m | €44m | |
| 8 | Sampdoria | €28m | €35m | |
| 9 | Bologna | €27m | €34m | |
| 10 | Torino | €24m | €32m | |
| 11 | Genoa | €26m | €30m | |
| 12 | Sassuolo | €27m | €28m | |
| 13 | Udinese | €25m | €28m | |
| 14 | Atalanta | €25m | €24m | |
| 15 | Cagliari | €21m | €21m | |
| 16 | Palermo | €24m | €20m | |
| 17 | Chievo | €16m | €18m | |
| 18 | Pescara | €16.5m | €16.5m | |
| 19 | Empoli | €14m | €15.5m | |
| 20 | Crotone | €14m | €14m |