Short answer: The biggest Bundesliga wage bill is Bayern Munich’s: €443.5m in staff costs in 2024/25, against €268.3m at Borussia Dortmund and €208.9m at RB Leipzig, per the DFL figures published in May 2026. This page ranks clubs, because individual player pay is not published.

Bayern Munich have the biggest wage bill in the Bundesliga by a wide margin: €443.5m in staff costs in the 2024/25 financial year, against €268.3m at Borussia Dortmund and €208.9m at RB Leipzig. The figures come from the German Football League’s (DFL) official financial figures for the clubs of the 2026/27 Bundesliga, published in May 2026.

This page ranks clubs, not players. Bundesliga clubs and the DFL do not publish what individual players earn, so lists of player salaries rest on estimates. A club’s staff costs, taken from its accounts, are the pay figure that is published.

Which Bundesliga clubs have the highest wage bills?

Staff costs (“Personalaufwand”) are in euros and cover all of a club’s employees. Most clubs’ financial years end on 30 June 2025; Bayer Leverkusen, VfB Stuttgart and Borussia Mönchengladbach report on the calendar year 2025. Revenue and the share of revenue are shown only where the club has published its revenue for the same year.

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The 10 highest Bundesliga staff costs in euros, financial year 2024/25 (calendar 2025 for three clubs), with revenue and staff costs as a share of revenue; source: DFL club financial figures
Rank Club Staff costs Financial year Revenue (club figure) Staff costs as a share of revenue
1 Bayern Munich €443.5m 2024/25 €978.3m 45.3%
2 Borussia Dortmund €268.3m 2024/25 €526.0m 51.0%
3 RB Leipzig €208.9m 2024/25 Not published by the club –
4 Bayer Leverkusen €207.5m 2025 Not published by the club –
5 Eintracht Frankfurt €177.3m 2024/25 €389.1m 45.6%
6 VfB Stuttgart €163.9m 2025 Not used here –
7 TSG Hoffenheim €94.9m 2024/25 Not published by the club –
8 Borussia Mönchengladbach €94.6m 2025 Not used here –
9 SC Freiburg €83.1m 2024/25 €162.8m 51.1%
10 Union Berlin €79.8m 2024/25 Not published by the club –

Sources: staff costs from the DFL’s club financial figures (row “Personalaufwand”); revenue from FC Bayern, Borussia Dortmund, Eintracht Frankfurt and SC Freiburg. Stuttgart’s and Gladbach’s revenue for 2025 has so far been reported only in the press, so we have left it out. The share of revenue is our own calculation, and the clubs’ revenue figures are their own totals, so they are not on an identical basis. Werder Bremen (€74.6m), Mainz 05 (€73.0m) and FC Augsburg (€61.5m) follow Union in the DFL figures.

What do the Bundesliga wage bills show?

Bayern spend almost as much as Dortmund and Leipzig together

Bayern’s €443.5m is 65% more than Borussia Dortmund’s €268.3m and close to Dortmund’s and RB Leipzig’s staff costs added together (€477.2m). Bayern also had the largest revenue in the league, €978.3m for the group, so staff costs took 45.3% of it.

A clear gap after the top six

Six clubs spent more than €160m on staff: Bayern, Dortmund, Leipzig, Leverkusen, Frankfurt and Stuttgart. Seventh-placed Hoffenheim spent €94.9m, less than three-fifths of Stuttgart’s €163.9m, and from there the bills fall steadily to Augsburg’s €61.5m in 13th.

Frankfurt’s sharp rise

Eintracht Frankfurt’s staff costs rose by 25.4% to €177.3m in 2024/25, according to the club, which also reported revenue of €389.1m for the year.

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How much do all Bundesliga clubs spend on wages?

The DFL’s economic report for 2024/25 gives the totals for the 18 Bundesliga clubs of that season:

  • Total revenue of €5,122.7m.
  • Wages for professional players and coaching staff of €1,722.0m, or 33.6% of revenue, down from 34.9% in 2023/24 and 36.3% in 2022/23.
  • Including commercial and administrative staff, total staff costs of €2,122.4m, or 41.4% of revenue.

The DFL publishes the players-and-coaches figure only as a league total, so the club table above uses each club’s total staff costs, which also include youth, commercial and administrative employees.

What do the staff-cost figures include?

  • All employees. “Personalaufwand” covers everyone a club employs, not only the first team.
  • Not transfer fees. Transfer fees are spread over players’ contracts as amortisation, which is reported separately.
  • Latest published year. The DFL figures are for the financial year ending in 2025, the latest available for the clubs of the 2026/27 season.

All 18 clubs of the current season, with the same official staff-cost figures, are on our page ranking every Bundesliga club by staff costs. For how the biggest clubs compare on revenue across Europe, see the richest football clubs in the world.

How we built this

We took staff costs from the DFL’s official financial figures for the clubs of the 2026/27 Bundesliga and league totals from the DFL’s 2024/25 economic report. Revenue is shown only where a club has published it for the same financial year; the share of revenue is our own arithmetic. We did not use player salary estimates or media reports. The figures were checked on 28 October 2026.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which Bundesliga club has the highest wage bill?

Bayern Munich, with staff costs of €443.5m in the 2024/25 financial year, according to the DFL’s club financial figures. Borussia Dortmund were second with €268.3m.

How much do Bundesliga clubs spend on wages in total?

In 2024/25 the 18 clubs spent €1,722.0m on wages for players and coaching staff, 33.6% of their €5,122.7m revenue, and €2,122.4m on all staff, according to the DFL’s economic report.

What share of revenue does Bayern spend on staff?

45.3%: staff costs of €443.5m against group revenue of €978.3m in 2024/25, from the DFL figures and FC Bayern’s own results.

Why does this page rank clubs and not players?

Bundesliga clubs and the DFL do not publish individual players’ salaries. The club’s staff costs, from its accounts, are the official pay figure.

Do these figures include transfer fees?

No. Staff costs cover pay and employment costs for all employees. The cost of transfer fees is reported separately as amortisation.

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