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One of the biggest undertakings of the post-pandemic economic climate at Juventus has involved getting an incredibly bloated wage bill more under control. Not only was Juve\u2019s payroll easily the highest in Serie A, but it was competing with some of the highest in all of the world, and certainly wasn\u2019t as sustainable as it used to be before the pandemic for very obvious economic reasons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Last season, Juventus didn\u2019t have the highest payroll in Serie A \u2014 and it\u2019s the same this time around.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
According to Calcio e Finanza earlier this week<\/a>, Juventus\u2019 payroll for the 2025-26 season will be ranked in the same place in Serie A as it was last year \u2014 right behind Inter Milan in second place. Juventus\u2019 gross payroll is estimated to be just under \u20ac123 million this season, with a net total of \u20ac70.4 million. While both figures are significantly down from where Juventus\u2019 payroll was at during the pre-pandemic days and the season or two after the 2020 lockdown, the club\u2019s wage bill is actually noticeably higher this year compared to last, according to Calcio e Finanza<\/a>, with a 12.5% increase for the new campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Inter\u2019s league-high payroll is reportedly \u20ac141.5 million gross this season, down ever so slightly from the 2024-25 campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n As we are all well aware, Dusan Vlahovic and his Serie A-high \u20ac12 million net salary still weighs heavily on the Juventus wage bill, with summer signing Jonathan David (\u20ac6 million) and Gleison Bremer (\u20ac5 million) the only players on the roster to be making \u20ac5 million or more this season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n It\u2019s also noted that Juve were also the second-highest spending team in Serie A during the summer mercato, although much of that had to do with players \u2014 goalkeeper Michele Di Gregorio, defender Pierre Kalulu, winger Nico Gonz\u00e1lez, etc. \u2014 brought in last summer or winter on options and obligations to buy. AC Milan were the highest spending Serie A club this summer, dishing out over \u20ac160 million to try and refresh their roster with a certain Max Allegri back on the sidelines at the San Siro.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n With it being noted that Juve\u2019s wage bill is higher this season than it was during the 2024-25 campaign, it\u2019s also worth mentioning that one of the club\u2019s lowest earners, Kenan Yildiz, is expected to be in for a big bump in what he earns on a year basis. As has been reported throughout the summer, Juventus and Yildiz\u2019s camp are working on a contract extension through 2030 with the young No. 10 expected to see his net salary hit in the neighborhood of \u20ac4.5 million, putting him level salary-wise with Teun Koopmeiners and just behind Bremer and David in terms of those Juve players signed past the summer of 2026. (Vlahovic is currently in the final year of the deal he signed when he arrived from Fiorentina in January 2022.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n As part of the Calcio e Finanza reporting, Juventus\u2019 new signings besides David make the following:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n