It’s no secret that sport and particularly football, at the highest level, is a very lucrative business.

There’s lots of money in the Premier League with pretty much all of the clubs able to spend many millions of pounds every year.

Getty Images - Getty 10 Manchester City are currently the Premier League holders

And fans can see the extent of their wealth when they look at how much the clubs spend on paying their players every year.

Global Sports Salaries conduct surveys produced by sportingintelligance.com to find all the salary stats for sports teams around the world that you could possibly desire.

Their 2019 issue has been released and talkSPORT.com has looked at the average salaries for first-team players all 20 Premier League clubs in 2019.

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20. Sheffield United – £728,000 – average annual salary per player

Getty Images - Getty 10 Sheffield United are fifth in the Premier League despite their ‘shoestring’ budget

19. Norwich – £991,000

18. Brighton – £1,805,304

17. Burnley – £1,915,333

16. Bournemouth – £1,917,760

Getty Images - Getty 10 Eddie Howe has worked wonders at Bournemouth, who got promoted to the Premier League in 2014/15

15. Aston Villa – £1,965,600

14. Watford – £2,025,111

13. Newcastle – £2,086,240

12. Wolves – £2,197,565

11. Southampton – £2,299,440

Getty Images - Getty 10 Southampton are mid-table in terms of average salaries but are near the bottom of the Premier League

10. Crystal Palace – £2,887,500

9. West Ham – £3,022,240

8. Leicester – £3,352,960

7. Tottenham – £3,961,043

getty 10 Spurs finished fourth in the Premier League last season but they are seventh in this table

6. Everton – £4,101,760

5. Chelsea – £4,774,000

getty 10 The sale of Eden Hazard has helped Chelsea lower their wage bill

4. Arsenal – £4,790,240

Getty Images - Getty 10 Mesut Ozil’s huge wages will have increased Arsenal’s wage bill markedly

3. Liverpool – £5,537,600

Getty Images - Getty 10 Liverpool have given big new contracts to star players in recent seasons including Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah

2. Manchester United – £6,125,600

Getty Images - Getty 10 Ed Woodward is certainly not having any issues with being able to pay the players at Man United

1. Manchester City – £6,987,500

AFP or licensors 10 No surprise that Man City are top of the league in terms of average first-team salaries