Hundred Salaries

Some comparisons...

There’s been a lot of discussion in the last few days surrounding the newly announced salaries of the men’s event in The Hundred.

Below is some analysis which I have performed on the salary changes between the first draft in November 2019 and the 2025 season. I used the Bank of England inflation calculator to ascertain what a salary in 2019 was worth in October 2024, and for the IPL salary comparison, I compared the total team purse for 2025 (120 Cr) to 2019 (82 Cr) = 1.463 multiple.

Green values show values with considerable increases in salary, particularly in bracket 1 which has salary bracket growth which out-strips both inflation and the IPL team purse multiplication adjustment.

Essentially, the value of bracket 1 (increase from £125k to £200k for 2025) with inflation should be around £156,000, and based on IPL salary adjustments, around £183,000.

The biggest drops are in the mid-level bands (3-5) which have shown a drop in theoretical inflation adjusted salary of greater than £10,000 per player, and over £20,000 based on IPL team budget multiplication adjustments.

Further, it would also appear that the despite the big increases at the top end of the salary scale, team purses have neither kept up with inflation, or the percentage increase in IPL team salaries.

Several players have spoken out on this - Sam Billings and Tymal Mills in particular. It looks like they might have a valid point. It would be fascinating to understand whether the ECB had performed similar analysis when devising their upcoming salaries for the 2025 season.

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