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KeSPA Top 30 Ranking Progamer Salaries

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Milkis
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
5003 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-08 15:48:34
August 08 2010 15:34 GMT
#1
Cause the source is super sketchy (lol T-ara fancafe), I'm blogging this. I'm not too sure how accurate this is overall (somethings seem very inaccurate like Jaedong's, since he signed under a lot lower when he was FA) so take it with a huge grain of salt.

The list is the salaries of players in the top 30 of KeSPA rankings. It's ordered by KeSPA ranking.

Also this is apparently Salary only. No Options included. All amounts in KRW so google convert if you want :3

1. (T)Flash 250.000.000

2.(Z)Jaedong 220.000.000

3.(P)Kal 100.000.000

4.(Z)EffOrt 88.000.000

5.(Z)Calm 72.000.000

6.(T)Fantasy 75.000.000

7.(Z)ZerO 58.000.000

8.(T)Light 70.000.000

9.(P)Movie 42.000.000

10.(Z)Kwanro - Not revealed by Woongjin

11.(T)BaBy 28.000.000

12.(P)Stork 95.000.000

13.(P)free 75.000.000

14.(T)HiyA 44.000.000

15. (T)Sea 75.000.000

16.(T)Leta 45.000.000

17 (P)JangBi 63.000.000

18.(P)Pure 20.000.000

19.(Z)Shine 33.000.000

20.(T)Really 36.000.000

21.(T)fOrGG 38.000.000

22.(Z)great 27.000.000

23.(Z)Action No Contract

24.(P)Stats 31.500.000

25.(T)sKyHigh 47.000.000

26.(P)Bisu 200.000.000

27.(P)Shuttle 18.000.000

28.(Z)RorO 34.000.000

29.(P)BeSt 78.000.000

30.(Z)Hyuk 22.000.000



****
valaki
Profile Joined June 2009
Hungary2476 Posts
August 08 2010 15:38 GMT
#2
26.Bisu 200.000.000 wow seems pretty high even for Bisu...as he is performing now..
ggaemo fan
Perguvious
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States1783 Posts
August 08 2010 15:39 GMT
#3
bisu's getting more than hyuk+fantasy+best is getting combined

._____.
Zoler
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Sweden6339 Posts
August 08 2010 15:39 GMT
#4
Action no contract, lol!
Lim Yo Hwan forever!
Thegilaboy
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States2018 Posts
August 08 2010 15:39 GMT
#5
Wow, if that's accurate at all some of them are making bank!
duckett
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States589 Posts
August 08 2010 15:41 GMT
#6
umm this is a lot lower than i expected O.O i thought flash and jd made more
funky squaredance funky squaredance funky squaredance
Judicator
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States7270 Posts
August 08 2010 15:42 GMT
#7
Assuming these numbers are true, can someone give context to these numbers? Just curious how it plays out in the typical Korean standard of living.

No, converting it to dollars or whatever native currency isn't context.
Get it by your hands...
apm66
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada943 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-08 15:47:02
August 08 2010 15:44 GMT
#8
Flash: $215,313.070US
Jaedong $189,475.501
Bisu 172,250.456
Sea 64,593.921
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
Piy
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Scotland3152 Posts
August 08 2010 15:49 GMT
#9
Bear in mind these are just salaries from teams, it doesn't include sponsorship deals and appearance fees.

(I assume, correct me if teams take these fees)
My. Copy. Is. Here.
chobopeon
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
United States7342 Posts
August 08 2010 15:53 GMT
#10
holy shit it gets real low really fast. $18k by the end.
:O
YoonHo
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Canada1043 Posts
August 08 2010 15:53 GMT
#11
Damn, I thought Fantasy, Effort, and Stork would be at least over 100.000.000. They all got corporate giants as their sponsors (samsung, SKT, CJ), I thought they would get paid a bit higher than that.
IUFam Golf Wang~ NrGsteve
chobopeon
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
United States7342 Posts
August 08 2010 15:54 GMT
#12
On August 09 2010 00:42 Judicator wrote:
Assuming these numbers are true, can someone give context to these numbers? Just curious how it plays out in the typical Korean standard of living.

No, converting it to dollars or whatever native currency isn't context.


i'm also interested in this. plus, i wonder what else is going on in the contracts. what other opportunities for earning do they have? in some sports, it's "score 4 goals and you get $50k". i wonder whats in the sc contracts.
:O
wkcalex
Profile Joined August 2010
Uganda29 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-08 16:04:13
August 08 2010 15:55 GMT
#13
Do they spend their salary on chicken or something
since most of these progamers are over 18, what do they do with all this money
Milkis
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
5003 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-08 16:02:54
August 08 2010 16:02 GMT
#14
On August 09 2010 00:54 choboPEon wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 09 2010 00:42 Judicator wrote:
Assuming these numbers are true, can someone give context to these numbers? Just curious how it plays out in the typical Korean standard of living.

No, converting it to dollars or whatever native currency isn't context.


i'm also interested in this. plus, i wonder what else is going on in the contracts. what other opportunities for earning do they have? in some sports, it's "score 4 goals and you get $50k". i wonder whats in the sc contracts.


errrr, super rough estimate but

I think average non College educated Korean makes like 900,000 a month? So that's about 10,800,000 a year.

Average Salarymen is like 2,500,000 a month? So that'll be about 30,000,000 a year.

http://www.worldsalaries.org/korea.shtml

This should be a better estimate
SkytoM
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Austria1137 Posts
August 08 2010 16:03 GMT
#15
Thats also to be considered ( this is directed to all of you ) : they don't pay anything by themselves during their career! No rent, no food, no energy etc.

With that in mind, these kids are making good money.
Bisu... ;-(
AyJay
Profile Joined April 2010
1515 Posts
August 08 2010 16:04 GMT
#16
On August 09 2010 00:55 wkcalex wrote:
Do they spend their salary on chicken or something
since most of these progamers are over 18, what do they do with all this money

Flash likes meat.
Amnesia
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States3818 Posts
August 08 2010 16:10 GMT
#17
wow for their age, this is quite a lot.
J1.au
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Australia3596 Posts
August 08 2010 16:18 GMT
#18
On August 09 2010 00:55 wkcalex wrote:
Do they spend their salary on chicken or something
since most of these progamers are over 18, what do they do with all this money

From interviews, they seem to give it to their parents to keep it for them.
SkelA
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Macedonia13081 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-08 16:20:30
August 08 2010 16:20 GMT
#19
Flash said once that almost all of his money are going to a bank account and geting just a small allowance per month .

Bisu salary is indeed too high ... it will get lower when his contract expires.
Stork and KHAN fan till 2012 ...
nayumi
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Australia6499 Posts
August 08 2010 16:22 GMT
#20
On August 09 2010 01:10 Amnesia wrote:
wow for their age, this is quite a lot.

well progamer life span is kinda short ... you get good money for like 6-8 years tops, maybe longer in the case of NaDa but you get the point ... and seeing how they have to give up education for gaming, i don't think $1 mil is high enough

but then maybe it's just me ;P
Sugoi monogatari onii-chan!
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