Philadelphia Union 2016 player salaries as of May 19

The Major League Soccer Players Union has released this year's first batch of salary data. Let's dig into it.

You can take a look back at past salary data sets here.

You will see four numbers listed next to each name: base salary, guaranteed compensation, and (where applicable) the change in each figure from the previous release last September.

The Union's payroll (with Lahoud included) totals $5,057,423.00 in base salary and $5,408,401.13 in guaranteed compensation.

Before getting into this, another reminder that the numbers can include players loaned out by the clubs in question even if those players aren't officially on those clubs' rosters at the moment.

In addition to the money figures, there's a note on how much each club has moved within the rankings since the last salary data release.

1. Toronto FC: $19,534,650.00 / $21,798,508.57 (-$227,286.96 / -$338,003.46, no change)
2. New York City FC: $20,603,922.54 / $21,127,776.63 (+$3,681,501.50 / +$3,713,508.74, up 1 place)
3. Los Angeles Galaxy: $16,110,500.00 / $18,100,736.04 (-$811,921.04 / $686,468.15, down 1 place)
4. Orlando City: $10,656,500.00 / $11,554,420.83 (+$268,145.00 / +$264,416.72, up 1 place)
5. Seattle Sounders: $9,479,113.50 / $10,728,811.09 (-$1,954,934.50 / -$2,559,632.21, down 1 place)

6. Colorado Rapids: $7,715,259.66 / $8,493,586.54 (+$3,059,767.62 / +$3,442,677.83, up 11 places)
7. Portland Timbers: $6,547,661.00 / $6,833,543.97 (+$799,535.92 / +$780,635.56, up 1 place)
8. Sporting Kansas City: $6,309,194.00 / $6,752,450.44 (+$855,693.96 / +$867,323.97, up 1 place)
9. Montréal Impact: $5,936,300.50 / $6,741,008.84 (+$468,763.58 / +$439,221.91, down 2 places)
10. Vancouver Whitecaps: $6,012,441.58 / $6,565,602.91 (+$790,826.54 / +$610,758.20, down 1 place)

11. San Jose Earthquakes: $5,821,616.92 / $6,409,400.25 (+$999,724.68 / +$1,076,894.49, up 4 places)
12. New England Revolution: $5,564,046.87 / $5,980,837.58 (-$306,958.17 / -$535,251.99, down 6 places)
13. Real Salt Lake: $5,337,500.00 / $5,956,899.50 (+$738,616.00 / +$519,979.32, no change)
14. New York Red Bulls: $5,186,746.15 / $5,829,850.32 (+$1,433,000.15 / +$1,599,913.93, up 5 places)

15. Philadelphia Union: $5,242,500.00 / $5,674,323.96 (+$185,077.00 / +$616,900.96, down 2 places)
16. Houston Dynamo: $5,312,577.75 / $5,674,161.08 (+$679,702.75 / +$552,452.75, no change)
17. Chicago Fire: $5,292,596.00 / $5,600,172.50 (-$97,179.00 / -$243,441.03, down 7 places)
18. Columbus Crew: $5,282,749.84 / $5,531,162.34 (-$14,233.68 / + $409,454.01, down 6 places)
19. D.C. United: $4,552,165.26 / $5,205,661.76 (+$760,656.26 / +$918,897.93, up 1 place)
20. FC Dallas: $3,746,282.00 / $4,323,732.00 (+$76,282.08 / +$225,440.41, down 1 place)

1. M Kaká, Orlando City: $6,660,000.00 / $7,167,500.00
2. F Sebastian Giovinco, Toronto FC: $5,600,000.00 / $7,115,555.67
3. M Michael Bradley, Toronto FC: $6,000,000.00 / $6,500,000.00
4. M Steven Gerrard, Los Angeles Galaxy: $6,000,000.00 / $6,132,500.00
5. M Frank Lampard, New York City FC: $6,000,000.00 / $6,000,000.00

6. M Andrea Pirlo, New York City FC: $5,600,000.00 / $5,915,690.00
7. F David Villa, New York City FC: $5,610,000.00 / $5,610,000.00
8. F Jozy Altidore, Toronto FC: $4,825,000.00 / $4,825,000.00
9. F Clint Dempsey, Seattle Sounders: $3,913,008.00 / $4,605,941.50
10. F Giovani dos Santos, Los Angeles Galaxy: $2,500,000.00 / $4,250,000.00

11. F Robbie Keane, Los Angeles Galaxy: $3,500,000.00 / $3,500,000.00
12. GK Tim Howard, Colorado Rapids: $2,100,000.00 / $2,575,000.00 ¹
13. F Didier Drogba Montréal Impact: $1,666,667.00 / $2,166,667.00
14. M Shkelzen Gashi, Colorado Rapids: $1,575,000.00 / $1,668,750.00
15. F Juan Manuel Martinez, Real Salt Lake: $1,060,000.00 / $1,458,666.67

16. F Nelson Valdez, Seattle Sounders: $1,200,000.00 / $1,455,000.00
17. F Innocent Emeghara, San Jose Earthquakes: $988,000.00 / $1,300,000.00
18. M Pedro Morales, Vancouver Whitecaps: $1,232,500.00 / $1,258,900.00
19. D Liam Ridgewell, Portland Timbers: $1,100,000.00 / $1,250,000.00
20. M Federico Higuaín, Columbus Crew: $1,175,000.00 / $1,175,000.00

21. F Gilberto, Chicago Fire: $1,145,000.00 / $1,145,000.00
22. F Kevin Doyle, Colorado Rapids: $1,075,000.00 / $1,120,000.00
23. F Kei Kamara, New England Revolution: $1,000,000.00 / $1,000,000.00
24. M Osvaldo Alonso, Seattle Sounders: $900,000.00 / $941,667.00
25. F Kennedy Igboananike, Chicago Fire: $800,000.00 / $901,666.67

1 - Howard signed with the Rapids before his season at Everton ended. He will officially join Colorado's squad after the Copa América Centenario.

The highest-ranking Union player is Maurice Edu at No. 32.

The highest-paid player who is not a Designated Player is Portland's Fanendo Adi ($640,000 / $712,500). His salary was paid down with the "Targeted Allocation Money" program that was introduced by MLS earlier last year. It allows teams to pay down DP cap hits to sign more big names.

There are multiple age-based salary tiers for Designated Players. When counting the number of non-DPs who make more than a DP salary, I use the senior-level threshhold of $457,500, because it's just easier to explain things that way.

A total of 55 players earn more than the senior-level Designated Player threshhold in base salary; 12 are not DPs, thanks to TAM and other ways MLS teams can fudge the books.

With changes from the last round of data.

Overall expenditure: $160,421,335.57 / $175,059,659.15 (+$8,654,191.61 / +$7,489,916.12)

Total players: 555 (-19)

Mean (average) salary: $290,245.66 / $316,768.32 (+$25,842.97 / +$24,834.97)
Median (middle) salary: $107,887.50 / $116,833.34 (+$7,887.50 / +$4,833.33)
Mode (most common) salary: $63,000.00 / $63,000.00 (+$3,000 / +$3,000)

Minimum salary: $51,492.00 / $51,492.00 (+$1,492.00 / $1,492.00)

Officially, just one player makes the minimum salary: Montréal Impact forward Michael Salazar. In reality, the minimum salary by league rule is $51,500 (as the base and guaranteed figure). Give or take a few cents for taxes and exchange rates, 36 players are at that pay grade. Nineteen of the 20 teams in MLS have at least one such player on their roster. Dallas, New England and Philadelphia have the most such players with three each.

As always, I save the end of these posts for players who often get overlooked.

League-wide goalkeeper pool

Trey Mitchell: $62,500.00 / $62,500.00 $50,000.04 / $50,000.04

Mitchell remains the only player in the pool. He received a $12,500 raise from last year. Union fans might remember that he was summoned to back up Brian Sylvestre for a game at Vancouver last May when Andre Blake and John McCarthy were injured.

Unsigned players

D Dan Gargan: ($145,000.00 / $145,000.00)

M Sanna Nyassi: ($135,000.00 / $141,250.00)
M Adolfo Ovalle: ($63,000.00 / $73,500.00)
M Cristian Martinez: ($62,508.00 / $67,008.00)

Gargan, a Philadelphia native, was most recently with the Los Angeles Galaxy. He and Moore, most recently with Toronto FC, were waived at the end of February.

Ovalle was most recently with Real Salt Lake's USL team; he was waived at the end of April.

Martinez was officially included among the unsigned pool, but he shouldn't have been. He joined the Columbus Crew on Tuesday.

Toward the end of last season, I made some charts showing historical changes in MLS salary data. Here are updated versions that include this year's new numbers.