Average budget in the SHL is roughly 50 million. Top payroll roughly 60 million. Oskarshamn has had the league's lowest budget by a landslide for the past two seasons and it has been somewhere around 30 million. Top salary is around 300,000 SEK per month, but I believe it will increase now that the new TV deal is increasing the teams' overall income.
Thank you. I found some data, but from 2016.
Btw, does Sweden still have high taxes?
The point though was that Riga has a crappy budget compared to the other KHL teams so they cannot afford better players as top players in the SHL, Liiga etc are offered more by other teams in the league.
Here I agree with you. Dinamo Riga will need to go up. Anyway, the salary floor will go up. A few days ago, Morozov said that nine clubs exceeded 800 million rubles for basic salaries payroll (without bonuses) in 2020-21. It is tricky with exchange rate, but it should be around 10 million euro (plus bonuses). A few years ago, it would be X2. Bonuses are 40% from 900 million rubles which are not counted in cap, plus other kind of bonuses exempted from cap. All in all, top KHL club spend around 20 million euro. Guessing, the clubs in that category are SKA, CSKA, Dynamo Msc, Lokomotiv, Avangard, Ak Bars, Avtomobilist, Metallurg, Salavat Yulaev
Another 8 clubs used from 400 million to 800 million rubles for basic salaries in 2020-21. Guessing, they are Jokerit, Spartak, Vityaz, Traktor, Amur, Barys, Sibir, KRS. These clubs should be in calm waters.
But the clubs under 400 million are in danger because the floor will go up to 450 million rubles plus bonuses soon. They are Dinamo Riga, Dinamo Minsk, Sochi, Severstal, Torpedo, Neftekhimik.
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