The MLS Players Union released today, as it does several times a year, the updated MLS player salary info. You can find the FCD salary info for this year here. It should be noted this is not the complete picture. What isn't revealed is all sorts of behind the scenes details like Targeted and General Allocation Money, therefore rendering this equal to sticking your finger up in the air. It'll give you solid, but general lay of the MLS salary landscape..

Since the Players Union also has the salary info going all the way back to 2007 I thought it might be interesting to compare year to year. From 2007 to 2011 there is only one set of data per year. Obviously the info reflects the roster as it existed when the report was released.

Some interesting points come through...

There can be no question FC Dallas gets more "bang for the buck" than any other team in MLS. Read Will Parchman's piece over at TopDrawerSoccer to get an outsider's view on the matter.

Dallas' total salary is actually higher this year than 2015, but slightly lower than 2014.

The highest FCD team payroll was in 2012 when the team had its all time highest paid player: Julian de Guzman. He was paid more then twice the next highest paid player ever, and at the time making up 2/5 of the entire club wage bill.



Payroll has been down to the $4 mil range since that high as FCD has fully embraced the youth academy and value based foreign signings.



There are 10 players across MLS that make more - individually - than the entire FC Dallas roster combined.

You can see where some of the Hunt reluctance to spend comes from, 3 of their 4 early big name (and paid) players were various flavors of bust: Denilson, Dulio Davino, and de Guzman.



By contrast, David Ferreira was for a long time the highest paid player at the club and was worth every penny.



In the past decade FCD's payroll has basically come up $1 mil.



High and low salary for players was picked from the guaranteed salary.