West Ham has been rated with 71st highest average wage in the world amongst all sports teams.
The Global Sports Salaries Survey 2018 by www.sportingintelligence.com says the average West Ham player earns £3,189,333 per equivalent to £61,333 per week. Barcelona led the table with £10,454,259 per year or £201,043 per week for their players. NBA basketball team Oklahoma City Thunder are third with an average annual salary of £7,848,811 or £150,939 per week.
The NBA fill six of the top ten spots with only Barcelona and Real Madrid topping them while Juventus and Manchester United are behind them.
In the Premier League, the Hammers are ranked eighth in terms of average salaries just behind Everton.
Premier League Average Annual Salaries: 1 Man Utd £6,534,654 2 Man City £5,993,000 3 Chelsea £5,020,004 4 Liverpool £4,862,963 5 Arsenal £4,853,130 6 Tottenham £3,515,778 7 Everton £3,252,690 8 West Ham £3,189,333.
West Ham is ranked eleventh in the World Super League within the survey.
The World Super League (an index developed by 21st Club) This ranking of teams globally, based on results in both domestic and continental competitions, allows supporters to compare any two teams’ performance levels, even if they would never play each other in a competitive match. At the time of writing in November 2018, for example, West Ham United are rated at a similar level to Girona in La Liga. The report says that if the two were to play at a neutral venue, it’s likely that it would be a tight match, even though West Ham’s average first-team pay is approaching £3.2m, and Girona’s just £0.7m. The English team is effectively paying over four times as much for the same level of performance. This is an extreme example; extending this analysis out to all clubs in the big five leagues reveals that the average Premier League team pays 79 per cent more in wages than a club of comparative performance levels on the continent.