Jamie Vardy is the player most often named as Leicester City’s highest-paid player in available season-by-season estimates from 2016/17 to 2024/25. The record is incomplete for the literal last 10 completed seasons as of October 2026: the estimates here do not cover 2025/26. Figures below are estimated weekly wages, not official club payroll disclosures, and two seasons have material source disagreements.
Leicester City’s highest-paid player by season
The table covers the nine seasons for which the cited historical estimates are available. SalarySport supplies most entries; where FBref provides a different figure or player, that disagreement is shown rather than resolved by assumption.
| Season | Highest-paid player in the estimate | Estimated weekly wage | Source and qualification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016/17 | Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez (tie) | £100,000 each | SalarySport lists both at the same estimated amount. |
| 2017/18 | Jamie Vardy | £100,000 | FBref lists Vardy; its available result labels player wages unverified estimates. |
| 2018/19 | Jamie Vardy | £140,000 | SalarySport archive estimate. |
| 2019/20 | Jamie Vardy | £140,000 | SalarySport archive estimate. |
| 2020/21 | Jamie Vardy | £160,000 | SalarySport archive estimate. |
| 2021/22 | Jamie Vardy | £160,000 (SalarySport); £140,000 (FBref) | Both publishers name Vardy, but their estimates differ. |
| 2022/23 | Jamie Vardy | £160,000 | SalarySport archive estimate. |
| 2023/24 | Jamie Vardy | £80,000 | SalarySport archive estimate. |
| 2024/25 | Disputed: Ricardo Pereira or Jamie Vardy | £73,000 (Pereira); £140,000 (Vardy) | SalarySport names Pereira; FBref lists Vardy. These estimates do not establish a definitive top earner. |
What the estimates show
- Vardy is the most frequently named highest-paid player in the listed seasons.
- SalarySport reports a tie between Vardy and Mahrez in 2016/17 at an estimated £100,000 per week each.
- SalarySport estimates Vardy’s weekly wage at £160,000 in 2020/21, 2021/22, and 2022/23. FBref’s 2021/22 estimate is lower, at £140,000.
- For 2024/25, the sources differ on both the named top earner and the amount: SalarySport lists Pereira at £73,000 per week, while FBref lists Vardy at £140,000.
Why these figures are estimates, not confirmed salaries
Leicester City’s individual player wages are not established here through official payroll disclosures. Salary figures published by salary databases should therefore be treated as estimates, and differences between publishers do not by themselves prove a change in a player’s contract.
Capology states that its player-salary figures are estimates and not official figures. It explains that some data may be based on public reporting or sources close to the publisher, while unverified data may be estimated algorithmically; historical information can also be limited or incomplete. That caveat is useful context for salary databases generally, but it does not verify any specific Leicester wage in this table.
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Why this is not a complete list of the last 10 completed seasons
As of October 2026, the last 10 completed seasons run from 2016/17 through 2025/26. The available estimates summarized here stop at 2024/25, leaving 2025/26 unresolved. The table is therefore a nine-season historical list, not a complete answer for the literal most recent decade. It would be misleading to describe 2016/17–2024/25 as the last 10 seasons or to infer a 2025/26 leader from these figures.
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