Arsenal may be heading for a second place finished in the league but they aren’t giving up their affinity with fourth place just yet.
With the release of the wages per club for last season, Arsenal sit in a familiar spot while Manchester United have overtaken their noisy neighbours City as the club with the highest wage bill, something that is unlikely to have changed this season with the arrival of Radamel Falcao and Angel di Maria.
As a percentage of club turnover, Arsenal’s wage bill is still one of the lowest at 56% however United can temper their whopping £215.8m wage bill with the fact that it represents only 50% of their turnover.
QPR’s wage bill, which amounted to £75.3m last season, represented an unsustainable and simply unbelievable 195% of their turnover.
Good luck with that in the Championship!
| CLUB | 2013-14 WAGE BILL (IN £M) | 2012-13 WAGE BILL (IN £M) | 2013-14 TURNOVER | 2012-13 TURNOVER | WAGES TO TURNOVER RATIO |
| Manchester United | 215.8 | 180.5 | 433.2 | 363.1 | 50 |
| Manchester City | 205 | 233.1 | 346.5 | 271 | 59 |
| Chelsea | 192.7 | 172.6 | 319.8 | 255.8 | 60 |
| Arsenal | 166.4 | 154.5 | 298.7 | 242.8 | 56 |
| Liverpool | 144 | 131 | 256 | 206 | 56 |
| Tottenham | 100.4 | 96.1 | 180.5 | 147.4 | 56 |
| Newcastle | 78.3 | 61.7 | 129.7 | 66.5 | 62 |
| QPR | 75.3 | 78 | 38.7 | 60.6 | 195 |
| Sunderland | 69.5 | 57.9 | 104.4 | 75.5 | 67 |
| Everton | 69.3 | 63 | 120.5 | 86.4 | 58 |
| Aston Villa | 69.3 | 71.9 | 116.9 | 83.7 | 59 |
| West Brom | 65.4 | 0 | 86.8 | 69.7 | 75 |
| West Ham | 63.9 | 56.2 | 114.9 | 89.8 | 56 |
| Swansea | 62.3 | 48.1 | 98.7 | 67.1 | 64 |
| Stoke | 60.6 | 60.3 | 98.3 | 75.5 | 67 |
| Southampton | 55.2 | 41.4 | 106 | 71.8 | 59.3 |
| Crystal Palace | 45.7 | 18.7 | 90.4 | 14.5 | 50.5 |
| Hull | 43.3 | 25.9 | 84.5 | 11.1 | 64 |
| Leicester | 36.3 | 26.8 | 31.2 | 19.6 | 116 |
| Burnley | 21.5 | 15.3 | 19.6 | 15.2 | 110 |