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Bailey highest paid Reggae Boy in EPL
January 16, 2025
Aston Villa FC winger Leon Bailey is currently the highest earning Jamaican player in the English Premier League (EPL), and the joint sixth top paid player at his club.
Bailey, who collects a weekly salary of PS120,000 (approximately J$22,800,000), which amounts to over PS6,240,000 a year, tops the list of highest earning Jamaicans in the EPL over West Ham striker Michail Antonio, who pockets PS85,000 per week and an annual salary of PS4,160,000.
Leicester City's attacker Bobby Reid is next on the list of Jamaicans with a yearly income of PS1,820,000, at PS35,000 per week.
While, the other Jamaican in the EPL, Brentford defender Ethan Pinnock brings home PS1,560,000 on an annual basis and PS30,000 per week.
At Aston Villa, Bailey is the sixth highest earner, behind the likes of French midfielder Boubacar Kamara, Argentine goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez and Belgium midfielder Youri Tielemans, who each earn PS7,800,000 annually and PS150,000 weekly.
The other players who earn more than Bailey are Senegalese midfielder Amadou Onana, who brings home PS7,280,000 a year (PS140,000 a week) and striker Ollie Watkins who gets PS6,760,000 a year (PS130,000 a week).
Bailey, French defender Lucas Digne and Scottish midfielder John McGinn are all on par with weekly and annual salaries.
Antonio is among the joint 12th highest earners at West Ham behind England striker Jared Bowen and Brazilian midfielder Lucas Paqueta, who both collect an annual income of PS7.8 million and PS150,000 weekly.
At Leicester City, Reid is joint 14th in the salary table, which is headed by the club's legendary striker Jamie Vardy, who pockets PS7.2 million a year and PS140,000 a week.
While at Brentford, a club with one of the smallest budgets in the EPL, Pinnock is joint 11th, behind top earner Aaron Hickey, with PS70,000 per week and PS3.2 million annually.
When Bailey arrived from Bayer Leverkusen in the 2021-22 season, he was among the top five earners at Aston Villa, with only Brazilian Phillippe Coutinho (PS6.5 million), Danny Ings, Digne and Martinez (PS6.2) earning more.
Although he slipped to seventh in highest earners at the club in 2022-23 due to the arrival of new players and some players getting improved contracts, Bailey now sits just outside the top five earners, after he got an improved contract during last season, following outstanding campaign where he had 10 goals and nine assists.
