Fansided · Apr 21, 2020
MLS: Pay cuts grim business but necessary for league
MLS is trying to survive the financial implications of the COVID-19 global pandemic. To do so, executives and players will conduct wide-ranging pay cuts.
Major League Soccer will pay staff and players without furloughs or layoffs, but to ensure the league survives from now through a hoped-for June 8 restart, executives will take a deep pay cut.
Commissioner Don Garber and deputy commissioners Mark Abbott and Gary Stevenson started 25% cuts on April 16. Other top staff will accept cuts from 10%-20%. Lower-salary employees are exempt, but those exemptions do not include the players on the pitch.