Salaries
What players and staff are paid: salaries, prize shares, minimums and what contracts contain.
How the LCK spending cap works: limits, discounts and luxury tax
A guide to the LCK's Balanced Spending System: what it counts, how the limit and floor work, who earns a discount, how the tax is tiered and what changed since 2023.
SalariesLEC lowers its 2027 player spending threshold to 1.65 million euros
Sheep Esports reports that version 1.3 of the LEC's Sporting Financial Regulations cuts the line on a team's five best-paid players by 17.5% for 2027.
SalariesLCK rewrites its spending rules: a six-point test and a four-tier tax
The LCK's September rulebook update ties the pay discount for decorated players to three years of results, limits it to two per team and reworks the luxury tax.
SalariesMPL Philippines salary ceiling: 900,000 pesos a month and contract rules
The Season 18 rulebook of MPL Philippines caps what a team pays its active roster each month and sets the terms of every player contract. What it says, clause by clause.
Salaries3DMAX players and coaches go public over late and unpaid salaries
A player and two coaches of the French Counter-Strike team 3DMAX described late pay and its weight on results in statements HLTV reported on August 27.
SalariesMonte and Bymas trade public statements over unpaid salary and stickers
Bymas says Monte owes him tens of thousands of dollars in salary, prize money, bonuses and Major sticker revenue. Monte admits delays but calls the claim a lie.
SalariesFormer BoostGate players say two thirds of their TCL salaries are unpaid
Two former BoostGate Esports players said on X that the roster that played the Turkish league this year is still waiting for most of its agreed pay. The club had not replied.
SalariesBrazilian labor court rules against Fluxo in case brought by coach Gafone
Two Brazilian labor courts found that League of Legends coach Gafone was an employee of Fluxo for seven weeks in 2024, without a signed contract, and ordered compensation.
SalariesUS minimum wage for esports players: federal floor and 2026 state rates
The federal floor is US$7.25 an hour, and most states set their own. The rates in force in July 2026, how a salary is measured against them, and how a league floor tied to state law works.
SalariesEmployee or contractor? How US tax rules classify esports players
A US team can pay a player as an employee or as an independent contractor. How the IRS and the Labor Department draw that line, and what each label changes for pay and forms.
SalariesFrance's esports player contract: one to five years, pay in writing
France gives salaried esports players a contract of their own, open only to approved teams. How the approval works, how long the contract runs, what it must say and what it protects.
SalariesHow the Esports Nations Cup pays players, coaches and their clubs
The US$45 million money model of the first Esports Nations Cup: the same prize for every seat, a 40 percent payment to clubs and a fund for national partners.
SalariesWhy the Call of Duty League cannot cap or tax what teams pay players
A 2023 federal court judgment bars Activision from capping player pay in its leagues or fining teams that spend too much. What the case said, and what the decree allows.
SalariesUK minimum wage and worker status: what it means for esports players
How UK employment law sorts a player, a coach or a caster into worker, employee or self-employed, and the National Minimum Wage rates that apply from April 2026.
SalariesWhen a team stops paying its players: what a league can do
Leagues have barred owners, removed teams, left slots with the players and set prize money aside for the people owed. How those tools worked in four published decisions.
Salaries6GPA Expelled From Prime League 2 Over Unpaid Wages
German club 6GPA lost its Prime League 2 slot and its Valorant Challengers DACH spot after failing to pay players and staff owed since October 2025.
SalariesNLC operator apologizes as casters and staff go public over late pay
Broadcast talent and former staff of Northern Europe's League of Legends league say they were paid late or are still owed money. The operator regrets the delays and paused Week 7.