National Basketball Association Player Salaries

NBA salaries, by individual player, from popular sources.  The early data to 1980-81 came from Roger Noll at Standford.  Much of the collection here is thanks to Stephen Tai and  Patricia Bender's Web Page is invaluable for anyone interested in economic data on the NBA.  Recently, salaries are also at the USAToday Salary Data Base.  The files are all in MSExcel format.  So, use your "Save Target As" command to save them to your hard disk.

Annually:

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1967-68
1968-69
1969-70
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1972-73
1973-74
1974-75
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1978-79
1979-80
1980-81
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1982-83
1983-84
1984-85
1985-86
1986-87
1987-88
1988-89
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1990-91
1991-92
1992-93
1993-94
1994-95
1995-96
1996-97
1997-98
1998-99
1999-2000
2000-01
2001-02
2002-03
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
2006-07

Averages, Median, Minimum

League level averages:  1970-71 through 2001-02
Team level mean and median: 1970-71, 2001-02 to 2005-06

NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement Pay Scale2001-02