PFA Taylor salary

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PFA’s Gordon Taylor faces pressure over ‘scandalous’ £2.2m salary

• Head of PFA received basic wage of £1.2m 
• Simon Jordan: ‘It’s wrong on so many levels’

 

 

 Gordon Taylor has been in charge of the PFA since 1981. Photograph: Ben Cawthra/Rex/Shutterstock

Martha Kelner

Mon 12 Feb 2018 20.15 GMTLast modified on Mon 12 Feb 2018 21.13 GMT

 

Gordon Taylor is under pressure to offer a justification for his £2.2m salary as chief executive of the Professional Footballers’ Association, which last year included a £777,000 bonus.

The publication of the PFA accounts shows in 2016-17 Taylor received a basic wage of £1.2m, his bonus and £271,300 in employers’ National Insurance contributions. This is equivalent to around £6,027 a day or £42,308 a week, giving Taylor parity with many of the highest paid Premier League players he represents.

Revelations about the 73-year-old’s remuneration package have angered many within the game. It can be contrasted with the £100,000 the PFA has contributed towards concussion and head injury research in more than five years, a matter which has dominated the lives of former footballers with Alzheimer’s and dementia.

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Taylor’s salary has gone up £1.3m from the previous year and he also gets a £41,250 car allowance, private medical cover worth almost £9,000 and utilities’ benefits worth £2,800. The entire budget of the PFA, made up of grants and member contributions, is just under £17m.

The former Chelsea player Graeme Le Saux called the package “absolutely scandalous” while the former Crystal Palace chairman Simon Jordan told the Guardian it was unjustifiable. “It’s nothing personal towards Gordon Taylor – the Dalai Lama could be the chief executive of a union and on that money and I would still say it was wrong on so many levels,” he said.

“Only in football, which is so detached from reality, could you pay yourself a salary of that nature. You can’t ignore that the PFA do some good stuff, very good people within the confines. But it can also be very self-serving and there is nothing more self-serving than 13-14% of the annual budget going on one person’s salary. It’s out of kilter with any other industry for a union leader to have that sort of salary. While he is a figurehead and comes in front of camera to be outspoken, to justify that salary is to defend the indefensible.”

Dawn Astle, the daughter of the former West Brom striker Jeff Astle, who died aged 59 after living with dementia for many years, campaigns for more research into the effects of heading footballs. “It’s like a kick in the teeth,” she said. “He is accountable to no one and should go and give the job to someone more in touch.”

Taylor has been in charge of the PFA since 1981 and lives in Lancashire.

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[Bill 13,717]

More tedious envy-politics for the baying mob to drool over. Surely what he earns is no one’s business but his own. I just hope he doesn’t make the mistake of pandering to them by apologising or trying to justify his earnings.

[Gonzo79 15,299]

There's a difference between envy and scrutiny/transparency.  

 

Football fans (particularly in England) pay a lot to attend matches.  Understandable that they'd want to scrutinise amounts those who run the game are being paid.  

[Bill 13,717]

1 hour ago, Gonzo79 said:

There's a difference between envy and scrutiny/transparency.  

 

Football fans (particularly in England) pay a lot to attend matches.  Understandable that they'd want to scrutinise amounts those who run the game are being paid.  

Tosh. It’s judgemental criticism from top to bottom. Unadulterated muck raking. 

[Uilleam 5,960]

As far as I know, Taylor's salary is set by the PFA, which also pays it. It doesn't seem to have much to do with the supporters, directly, nor with the TV Cos. and sponsors.

 

Of course, it does seem a hefty wedge, but, presumably, the players are happy with his emolument, and with their own subscriptions which fund it. 

 

At least its not public money, nor leached from charitable donations.      

Edited February 13, 2018 by Uilleam

[Gazza_8 233]

The guy's a cock too. It seem the money has gone to his head. A disgusting amount of money for someone who is head of a union.

[Gonzo79 15,299]

18 minutes ago, Bill said:

Tosh. It’s judgemental criticism from top to bottom. Unadulterated muck raking. 

Give him a pay rise.  Who cares really?  

 

 

[compo 7,204]

As the players union man he is well paid must be the highest earning union man since Jimmy Hoffa .

[Bill 13,717]

This incessant campaign by the msm to curry favour by encouraging envy is intolerable but it wouldn’t be so prevalent if their readership wasn’t so keen to join in. It’s time to stop condemning success and wealth in this country. 

[Gonzo79 15,299]

Envy is sinful.  But ignorance is arguably worse.