T1/T2 Salary | VLR.gg

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If you had no information about the current salaries of professional players, what would you expect the pay to be like? I brought this up because I heard about some of the salaries of some pro players and wondered if teams would've stayed around if the salaries were a bit lower.

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depends on the region and org. Sentinels and LEV probably pay their players around 30-40k a month while EG and most Pacific teams pay around 10-15k a month. I dont really have any idea what the average EMEA salary is (this goes for tier1 and is in USD)

Tier2 again depends on region and org but a lot of the tier2 orgs are just paying league minimum(4.5k monthly) But some teams like M80, Apeks, and Oxygen are closer to 15k and have similar salaries to tier1 teams. RN most tier2 players are on F/A teams and arent paid anything tho

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40k a month is insane i dont believe that

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30k prob got tenz and sacy and pancada 20k zellsis 15k for zekken prob due to timing when signed
Johnqt 10-20k ish due to being t2 30/40k is just unrealistic

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You're way off, the old EG roster was all paid around 35k monthly(excluding demon1 because he was on the reserve roster) and when EG said they were gonna give 50% salary cuts everyone but Jawg left. TenZ btw was bought for over $1mil his salary is absolutely around 40k.

I cant find the post and I dont really care enough to look harder for it but im pretty sure either Purest or George G*ddes leaked some teams average salaries

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Do you think the salaries are too high, considering they're playing a game for a living and not really risking any injuries? Do you believe that if they cut down on salaries, esports would be more sustainable?

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I dont think risk of injury should determine someones salary but yeah players in Americas are very overpaid. Some orgs are already lowering salaries, C9, EG, KOI, and 100T all lowered their budget with salaries last year. But they cant just drop the salary like a rock it has to be slowly which I think most teams are doing

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I bring up the risk factor because, aside from being skilled players, it seems they aren't taking on substantial risks that would justify such high salaries.

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this guy is heavy spreading misinformation

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eu t2 1-5k euros monthly depending on org but i know apeks pay their t2 cs players 12.5k monthly so idk if its the same in val

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Def not the same in Val that’s probably above average EMEA VCT salary

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C9 league minimum lol

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50k a year with your housing and food being paid for half of that is pretty good

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Prolly, but they're in LA so its cooked, but I guess they should be making up the rest of the money thru streaming

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im thinking most of them arent actually from LA and they go back home during the off season

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franchising minimum is 50k a year, so 4,200 a month. I'm guessing "higher tier" players like TenZ are getting paid closer to 15k a month, and lower tier are on minimum and then there's just a range in-between. shahzam said something similar a while ago.

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no way Tenz is getting paid 15k a month

I will use Styko from Apeks from cs as an example.
Styko isn't that much influent and good, and he revealed he is getting paid 12k a month, and Apeks is literally a low tier 1/high tier 2 team (even though they are an org from norway and norway is a pretty rich country, but still).

Tenz is getting 40k MINIMUM, because he is literally a celebrity in this scene

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CS players get paid more than Val players
just that CS has more job opportunities (or used to at the start)
I would trust shahzam
also apeks is known to pay good salaries for their org status on top of styko being a very old and veteran player