How much did English domestic cricketers earn in the 80s and 90s

[Jumno]

Let's say if you was a county cricketer for Derbyshire, Leicestershire or Northamptonshire.

How much was the average county cricketer paid? Maybe equivalent to the national minimum wage or just over?

I could be wrong, I heard somewhere in the office season, they had other jobs.

Does anyone have info on what jobs A Lamb, Mark Ealham, Dominic Cork did during the off season?

 

[Molehill]

Let's say if you was a county cricketer for Derbyshire or Northamptonshire.

How much was the average county cricketer paid? Maybe equivalent to the national minimum wage or just over?

I could be wrong, I heard somewhere in the office season, they had other jobs.

Does anyone have info on what jobs A Lamb, Mark Ealham, Dominic Cork did during the off season?

There were two Surrey lads (I forget which ones, not household names) who had a Xmas Tree business in Twickenham every Winter in the late 90's early 2000's.

 

[Coronis]

Not the 80’s, but Sobers in 1968 when he was lured to Nottinghamshire (when the residential requirement was lifted) “an annual salary of £7,000, an apartment and a car”

Which roughly adjusted to £104,000 today, $131600 USD or $203600 AUD

 

[Jumno]

Thank you.

Surely, someone has knowledge on the type of salary these county cricketers were paid. Equivalent to the national minimum wage or just a bit better?

 

[kevinw]

Let's say if you was a county cricketer for Derbyshire, Leicestershire or Northamptonshire.

How much was the average county cricketer paid? Maybe equivalent to the national minimum wage or just over?

I could be wrong, I heard somewhere in the office season, they had other jobs.

Does anyone have info on what jobs A Lamb, Mark Ealham, Dominic Cork did during the off season?

Mark Ealham was presumably a food critic in the off season.

 

[Molehill]

Mark Ealham was presumably a food critic in the off season.

He didn't find much to criticise!!

 

[Yeoman]

Ed Giddins and Nadeem Shahid, as I recall

in short, the pay wasn’t great for non internationals and they would have had to work in the winter. Contracts were usually from March or April to September only.

speaking about the 1988 season, Jonathan Agnew said that only two members of the Leicestershire squad were on over 10k per year. 10k was pretty much average earnings for the time.

There were two Surrey lads (I forget which ones, not household names) who had a Xmas Tree business in Twickenham every Winter in the late 90's early 2000's.

 

[kevinw]

Ed Giddins and Nadeem Shahid, as I recall

in short, the pay wasn’t great for non internationals and they would have had to work in the winter. Contracts were usually from March or April to September only.

speaking about the 1988 season, Jonathan Agnew said that only two members of the Leicestershire squad were on over 10k per year. 10k was pretty much average earnings for the time.

Not the first time Giddins got involved in the white stuff.

 

[Yeoman]

In ‘A lot of Hard Yakka’, Simon Hughes relates that he earned 14,000 in 1990.

 

[GIMH]

In ‘A lot of Hard Yakka’, Simon Hughes relates that he earned 14,000 in 1990.

A decent wage in 1990 I think? But not mind blowing

 

[Yeoman]

The final one I have to hand, and showing the bottom end of the scale, is Steve James. In his autobiography he tells how, when he first signed with Glamorgan in 1985 (when he was 17), he was paid a flat £500 for the season and £60 for each week he was actually with the team. To be clear, this was a summer contract under which he played only during the school and university holidays.

 

[Starfighter]

@social think you have some insight into this?

 

[social]

@social think you have some insight into this?

I was offered a county contract of 2000 quid in the early 80s if I agreed to play as a local (have an English grandmother so qualified)

From memory, capped players were on about 10 but maybe a bit less

Average pros had to work in off season to make ends meet

Bottom line is that you didn’t get rich playing cricket in those days unless you were a Botham etc

 

[ImpatientLime]

chubby lancs legend, ian austin was a painter and decorator in the off season

 

[Jumno]

£10k is still a good salary in 1988 and £14k in 1990 is still good.