Major League Soccer salaries, 1996

46 players on record, paid $5,039,109 in all: an average of $109,546, and a median of $94,000. The source of these figures was not recorded. Clubs are not transcribed for this season.

Players

player	base
Alexi Lalas	$175,000
Carlos Valderrama	$175,000
Eric Wynalda	$175,000
John Harkes	$175,000
Jorge Campos	$175,000
Leonel Álvarez	$175,000
Marcelo Balboa	$175,000
Marco Etcheverry	$175,000
Roberto Donadoni	$175,000
Tab Ramos	$175,000
Doctor Khumalo	$150,000
Jorge Rodas	$134,250
Hugo Sánchez	$134,000
Preki	$129,000
Robert Warzycha	$120,000
Chris Woods	$116,667
Roy Wegerle	$114,000
Michael Emenalo	$104,000
Tony Meola	$104,000
Digital Takawira	$99,000
Adrián Paz	$94,000
Ben Iroha	$94,000
Frank Klopas	$94,000
Mike Sorber	$94,000
Uche Okafor	$94,000
Mario Gori	$90,000
Wáshington Rodríguez	$89,000
Alberto Naveda	$85,000
Joe-Max Moore	$84,500
Diego Soñora	$84,292
Mike Burns	$84,000
Paul Caligiuri	$84,000
Rubén Darío Hernández	$80,000
John Doyle	$79,000
Nicola Caricola	$79,000
Raúl Díaz Arce	$79,000
Martin Vasquez	$77,000
Brian Bliss	$74,000
Cle Kooiman	$74,000
Frank Yallop	$74,000
Jeff Agoos	$74,000
Giovanni Galderisi	$69,400
John Kerr Jr.	$69,000
Ian Butterworth	$64,000
Shaun Bartlett	$64,000
Mark Dodd	$57,000

▲ Paid above that season's maximum budget charge of $175,000, the most one player can count against the salary budget: a Designated Player, or a player bought down with allocation money. The rules by season.