Highest Paid MLS Players - Top 25

The Major League Soccer Players Union has released the salary figures of individual players for the upcoming 2009 season. Look for more analysis of these numbers in coming days, but for now, here are the 25 highest-paid players in MLS this year, ranked by their total guaranteed compensation.

Rank	Name	Club	Salary
1	David Beckham*	Los Angeles Galaxy	$6,500,000.04
2	Cuauhtemoc Blanco*	Chicago Fire	$2,943,702
3	Juan Pablo Angel*	New York Red Bulls	$1,798,000
4	Freddie Ljungberg*	Seattle Sounders FC	$1,314,000
5	Landon Donovan*	Los Angeles Galaxy	$900,000
6	Guillermo Barros Schelotto*	Columbus Crew	$775,000
7	Luciano Emilio*	D.C. United	$758,857.14
8	Shalrie Joseph	New England Revolution	$450,000
9	Christian Gomez	D.C. United	$430,000
10	Taylor Twellman	New England Revolution	$420,000
11	Brian McBride	Chicago Fire	$385,333.33
12	Darren Huckerby	San Jose Earthquakes	$385,000
13	Dwayne DeRosario	Toronto FC	$357,000
14	Amado Guevara	Toronto FC	$323,750
15	Chad Marshall	Columbus Crew	$320,000
16	Carl Robinson	Toronto FC	$315,000
17	Pablo Vitti	Toronto FC	$303,000
18	Pablo Mastroeni	Colorado Rapids	$300,500
19	Kasey Keller	Seattle Sounders FC	$300,000
20	Jeff Cunningham	FC Dallas	$267,500
21	Fred	D.C. United	$257,000
22	Justin Mapp	Chicago Fire	$255,000
23	Jaime Moreno	D.C. United	$250,000
24	Ricardo Clark	Houston Dynamo	$248,050
25	Bobby Convey	San Jose Earthquakes	$244,500

* Designated Player