But it isn’t just the top flight where players can earn millions of pounds per year to fund a celebrity lifestyle filled with cars, houses and high-fashion clothing.
Data produced by specialists at Salary Sport suggest there are also plenty of Championship stars raking in seven-figure annual salaries.
Their website, if accurate, indicates that 81 players in the second tier are earning in excess of £1million, with many others earning just short of that milestone.
According to their calculations, the top 100 football players in the Championship earn a combined £2,673,000 per week and £138,996,000 per year.
Here are the top 25 highest earners in the division, according to Salary Sport, in ascending order.
*Some players featured on the Salary Sport database are on loan*
Their website, if accurate, indicates that 81 players in the second tier are earning in excess of £1million, with many others earning just short of that milestone.