Ajax Salaries 2025/26

There is a vast salary difference among the club's 18-year-old players. Defensive midfielder Jorthy Mokio earns €690K per year, while center-back Aaron Bouwman earns €350K and central midfielder Sean Steur earns just €35K. The gap between the highest and lowest-paid 18-year-old is nearly 20-fold.

Left-back Oleksandr Zinchenko's €5.0M salary is exactly equal to the combined annual salaries of the club's highest-paid midfielder, Oscar Gloukh (€1.5M), and its highest-paid forward, Kasper Dolberg (€3.5M).

The combined salaries of the four highest-paid defenders—Oleksandr Zinchenko (€5.0M), Ko Itakura (€3.9M), Josip Šutalo (€2.5M), and Owen Wijndal (€2.5M)—total €13.9M. This figure is greater than the total wage bill for all six of the club's forwards combined (€11.5M).

A center-back (Josip Šutalo), a left-back (Owen Wijndal), and a center-forward (Wout Weghorst) are all on the exact same annual salary of €2.5M, forming a unique pay cluster across three different positions on the pitch.

Left-back Oleksandr Zinchenko's individual salary of €5.0M is nearly equal to the combined salaries of all seven midfielders on the payroll, whose total wages amount to €5.2M.

A small group of four players—Oleksandr Zinchenko, Ko Itakura, Kasper Dolberg, and Steven Berghuis—accounts for €15.4M of the club's total €34.4M wage bill. This means just four individuals consume approximately 45% of the entire squad's salary budget.

The squad's salaries are grouped into three distinct tiers. The elite tier, earning €3.0M or more, includes defenders Oleksandr Zinchenko and Ko Itakura, and forwards Kasper Dolberg and Steven Berghuis. A mid-tier group earns between €1.0M and €2.5M, featuring players such as Wout Weghorst, Oscar Gloukh, and Takehiro Tomiyasu. The majority of the squad falls into the lower tier, earning under €1.0M.

The club's highest-paid player is Oleksandr Zinchenko, a left-back, with an annual salary of €5.0M.

The highest-paid forward at the club is center-forward Kasper Dolberg, who earns an annual salary of €3.5M.

The highest-paid midfielder at the club is attacking midfielder Oscar Gloukh, with an annual salary of €1.5M.