General Description - From this page, you may view any franchise's payroll broken down by level.

Bonus - The amount the franchise has paid this player in the form of a signing bonus.

Salary - The amount the franchise originally agreed to pay this player at the time he was signed.

Adjustments - The amount the franchise no longer has to pay this player due to a roster transaction (player lost to waivers, traded away, etc.)

Total - The amount the franchise is currently responsible for paying this player.

Budget Information, Player Payroll Budget - This captures your current budget status. The player payroll figure represents the amount that you have allocated to your player payroll +/- any transferred cash from trades. The amount that you may allocate to future seasons is reduced by 80%, 70%, 50% and 50% in order to prevent trashing a franchise for the future. You may not allocate more than this payroll budget for any season.

Budget Information, Player Payroll Used - This illustrates the amount that you currently have tied up in signed player contracts for that season. For instance, if you have $8,000,000 in season 4, you have eight million dollars worth of players under contract with your franchise during Season 4 (via multi-year deals). These numbers are updated as players are signed.

Budget Information, Player Payroll Offered - This represents the money you currently have tied up in outstanding offers. This amount plus the payroll allocated cannot exceed the player payroll budget, so be wise in your offers. If a signing would put your franchise over your budget, you will not be able to make the offer to the player.

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