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MLS To Cut Full-Time Employees’ Salaries Up To 25 Percent

Apr 1, 2020, 4:14 PM

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Don Garber, MLS Commissioner. Photo courtesy: Real Salt Lake

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – In an effort to try and limit the impact the coronavirus will ultimately have on Major League Soccer, the league has cut MLS employee’s salaries by 25 percent, according to a report by Yahoo Sports.

The league has some 300 employees based out of New York City, executives and managers, alike. The league has also temporarily frozen new hires within the league’s office.

MLS commissioner Don Garber and his top deputies Mark Abbot and Gary Stevenson will all take a 25 percent pay cut, while managers and most of the other full-time staff members will receive cuts that will range anywhere from 10 to 20 percent. Fortunately, the employees that are either entry-level or lower compensated workers will not receive any pay cut.

MLS soccer, much like many other professional sporting organizations around the world, are working through the financial impact that the coronavirus has caused.

Thus far, all players are expected to receive their full compensation for the 2020 season as league officials still anticipate a full season’s worth of games to be played.

The league has hoped that clubs will be able to re-open on May 10, although as the crisis continues to worsen in North America, the likelihood that the league resumes on May 10 is growing more and more unrealistic.

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