Toronto FC did not reach the playoffs despite having the highest player wages bill in the MLS at nearly $17 million.
On the MLS 2014 salary list are 572 players earning total wages of just over $129.5 million.
Their total wage bills combined equals about the same as the wage bill for Queens Park Rangers ($126 million) in 2012-13, the most recent year’s data available for QPR.
In 2012-13, six Premier League clubs each had wages bills well in excess of the entire MLS, with Manchester City topping the list at $376 million (for all club staff). The wage bills for the top 20 clubs in England were almost $2.9 billion combined.
