10 Highest Earning Premier League Managers: Arteta to Replace Guardiola as Best Paid but Who Else Makes the List?

Following the conclusion of the 2025-26 Premier League season, a number of managers are either leaving or negotiating new contracts.

Among those leaving are Manchester City’s legendary manager Pep Guardiola, who has ended his 10-year reign, Andoni Iraola, who has qualified Bournemouth for the Europa League, and Oliver Glasner, who is departing Crystal Palace after winning the Europa Conference League.

For those remaining, talks are underway on a review of their terms with Michael Carrick seeing his status at Manchester United turned from interim to permanent coach.

Guardiola was the highest earning coach in the Premier League with a mouth-watering salary of £20 million (Ksh3.5 billion) annually but with his exit, how does the list look like?

Perhaps the biggest fairytale story of the season, Frenchman Regis Le Bris guided Sunderland back to the Premier League and in the first season after returning, they finished seventh and qualified for European football.

Le Bris is 10th on this list and earns £2 million (Ksh348 million) annually, same as Leeds United boss Daniel Farke, whose side finished 13th after getting promoted.

Brighton’s German coach Fabian Hurzeler is among the names on the list with an annual pay of £2.5 million (Ksh435 million).

The youngest manager in the league, the 33-year-old has been at the club since 2024 and just guided them back to European football qualification after finishing eighth.

Fulham’s Portuguese coach Marco Silva is reportedly close to joining Benfica, who want him to replace Jose Mourinho, but while that has not materialised, he remains one of the best paid in the Premier League.

Silva has been at Fulham since 2021, guiding them back to the Premier League in 2022, and ensuring they retain their status for four consecutive seasons without fighting relegation. For this, he is paid £4 million (Ksh696 million) per year.

Everton boss David Moyes also makes the list of the top earning Premier League managers with an annual salary of £5 million (Ksh870 million). Moyes returned to Everton last year, 12 years since he left, and managed to lead them to 13th place on the table in 2025-26.

A new entrant on the list, Englishman Michael Carrick was appointed Manchester United’s permanent coach last week after impressing as interim since January, when he collected the most points in the league, as the Red Devils finished third and ended their two-year wait for Champions League qualification.

Carrick, who has signed a two-year-deal, will be earning £5 million (Ksh870 million) per year at Old Trafford, with an additional £1.5 million (Ksh261 million) in performance-based bonuses.

Englishman Eddie Howe has enjoyed a great time at Newcastle United since joining in January 2021, apart from the just- concluded season, when his team finished 12th.

Howe has, however, delivered Champions League football twice and won the club’s first trophy in 56 years, and for his work, he is paid £6 million (Ksh1 billion) yearly.

Liverpool’s Dutch coach Arne Slot is on an annual pay of £6.6 million (Ksh1.15 billion), having joined the club in the summer of 2024 to replace Jurgen Klopp.

Slot delivered the Premier League title in his debut season but his team made a mockery of their title defence to finish fifth in 2025-26 and just qualify for the Champions League.

Italian Roberto De Zerbi arrived at Tottenham in April when Spurs were teetering towards relegation and was handed a massive contract of £8 million (Ksh1.4 billion) per year.

He achieved his first main objective, saving the club from the drop on the final day of the season, and will look to build onto it and perhaps improve his earnings as well.

Aston Villa’s Unai Emery is the second highest paid coach in the league with a yearly salary of £8 million (Ksh1.4 billion).

Emery deserves every penny as he has turned Villa into a strong team that is now qualifying for Champions League and just ended the club’s 30-year wait for a trophy, when he delivered the Europa League crown this month.

Arsenal’s title-winning manager Mikel Arteta will now be the highest-earning Premier League manager following Guardiola’s exit as he is on an annual pay of £10 million (Ksh1.7 billion).

Arteta joined Arsenal in December 2019 and has transformed the club into a formidable force with his contract renewed a couple of times to reflect his status and reports suggest he is set for talks over an improvement of his existing terms.