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The MLSPA’s Fall 2025 Salary Guide has been made public. The data are dated October 1^st, 2025. Here is a link to the actual document itself. (Click here.) In addition to being the original source, the document also defines its terms and categories.

The salary data and total compensation data will inform roster decisions for next year.

PSP provides two treatments below. The first provides a method of organization that shows which positions and roles make or don’t make that money. The second simplifies the focus to the Union and money.

• The first groups the players within categories drawn from an unscientific, intuitive, personal sense of how the players have been used this season. The categories are:  “Starters”(15); “Primary reserves” (6); “Developmental reserves” (6); “Depth for practice” (2); “Loaned away” (2); and “Unlisted” (Ian Glavinovich is no longer listed anywhere in the entire salary guide, and David Vazquez is listed under San Diego).
• The second is an alphabetized list of only Philadelphia’s players and their money numbers.

The same headings apply to the three columns in both treatments, so we did not repeat them for the second presentation.

Categorized by role, then ordered by position 

Alphabetical

Because “annualized salary” reflects only that, while “total guaranteed compensation” adds several other things not all of which are necessarily present in every case, when calculating comparisons annualized salary is the better number to use. It compares exactly the same things to each other so statistics generated from the raw data such as percentages produce arithmetically valid comparisons.