Brady’s £7.8m pay over eight years

When David Sullivan and David Gold took over West Ham in 2010 they proudly revealed they were paying Karren Brady out of their own pockets for the first six months.

The West Ham 2011 accounts show the Hammers Vice Chairman was paid £256,000 by the club for the first time.

That package increased to £427,000 in 2012 and then hiked up to a massive £1.634m in 2013 of which £1m was a bonus paid over 5 years for winning the bid to move to the London Stadium.

In 2014 her basic rose by just £2,000 to £636,000 rising by a further £10,000 to £646,000 in 2015.

2016 saw another bid rise to £907,000 before a slight decrease in 2017 to £868,000.

2018 was another bumper year with a base salary of £898,ooo plus a consultant fee of £438,000 paid to a company controlled by Brady for introducing Tripp Smith as an investor making her annual total £1.336m.

In the accounts released last week for 2019 her pay is seen to rise from £898,000 to £1.136m, a rise of 27% on last year.

That adds up to a cool £7.85m over eight years!

With news that the entire West Ham squad has a 50% wage reduction clause if West Ham are relegated  from Premier League it would be interesting to know whether Brady has a similar clause to cut her wages in half in the Championship?