According to figures released recently by the Major League Soccer Players Association (MLSPA), your MLS team spent somewhere between $5.89M (Houston Dynamo) and $26.5M (Toronto FC) on player compensation in 2018. You can see the full report here for a more detailed breakdown.
Obviously, there is a wide discrepancy between those high and low figures.
The old adage says ‘you have to spend money to make money.’ But did the teams spending the most money generate comparable success on the field? If you measure that success by how much each team spent to generate points this season, then the answer is a definite ‘no’.