TIL that you can make quite a lot of money being a good (not necessarily great) player in the Czech Extraleague. "Sport" daily started publishing their - allegedly precise - estimates of pre-bonus salaries (salaries are not public in that league). Most of the numbers are behind a paywall, but here is what one can see:
41st - 50th place:
https://isport.blesk.cz/clanek/hokej-ti ... zinec.html
all allegedly making CZK 300K/month (i.e. CZK 3.6M/year. Given that CZK/USD lately fluctuated in the 20-24 range, that implies USD 150K to USD 180K - but the real value is probably quite higher thanks to lower cost of living)
Representative players:
Rudolf Červený (Mountfield HK)
Johan Harju (Pardubice)
31st-40th:
https://isport.blesk.cz/clanek/hokej-ti ... -roku.html
all alegedly making CZK 350K/month (i.e. USD 175K- USD 210K /year)
Libor Kašík (Zlín)
Jakub Klepiš (Mladá Boleslav)
21st-30th:
https://isport.blesk.cz/clanek/hokej-ti ... inova.html
between CZK 380K /month and CZK 400K/month
The 380K players are:
Michal Bulíř (Liberec)
Lukáš Kašpar (Litvínov)
Latvian Robert Bukarts is among the 400K/month
The top 20 will be revealed later.