Gianni Infantino: FIFA boss lands 33% pay rise after telling ladies they need to ‘drive change’ in combat for equal pay

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has secured a 33% pay rise to run world soccer which meant his wage exceeded £3.6m final 12 months, Sky News has discovered.

The improve throughout the Women’s World Cup 12 months featured deep in monetary paperwork accepted by the FIFA Council yesterday and despatched to world soccer officers.

Mr Infantino’s base wage was 1.95m Swiss francs (£1.7m) in 2022 with a bonus of 1.65m Swiss francs (£1.5m) – a complete equating to about £3.2m.

In a previously-undisclosed choice by the FIFA compensation subcommittee, Mr Infantino’s base pay was raised to 2.6m Swiss francs (£2.3m) following his re-election for a 3rd time period as president final 12 months.

The rise was utilized throughout final 12 months that means he earned 2,463,710 Swiss francs (£2.2m) together with a bonus of 1,650,000 Swiss francs (£1.5m) – the identical because the earlier 12 months.

That means he earned 4.1m Swiss francs (£3.6m) in whole throughout the Women’s World Cup 12 months of 2023.

Before the ultimate in Sydney, he informed ladies to “pick the right battles” of their combat for equal pay, inserting the emphasis on them to “force the change”.

He will earn the complete 2.6m Swiss francs yearly – plus any annual bonus – for the remainder of his time period till 2027.

After being elected FIFA president in 2016, Mr Infantino agreed an annual base wage of 1.5 million Swiss francs (£1.3m).

He can now stay in energy till 2031 after modifications to the statutes which permit him to hunt a fourth time period, having began by finishing the three years of banned predecessor Sepp Blatter’s mandate.

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Mr Infantino will not be incomes pay from FIFA on the degrees of Mr Blatter who earned a bonus alone of $12m (£9.4m) for the 2014 World Cup however solely later disclosed by investigators amid much less transparency throughout that period on the governing physique.

Last 12 months produced file income from the Women’s World Cup with FIFA’s total annual earnings of $1.17bn (£0.9m) representing a 53% rise from the 2019 Women’s World Cup 12 months.

FIFA is projecting income to soar to $11bn (£8.6bn) within the 2023-26 cycle ending with the expanded 48-team males’s World Cup within the United States, Mexico and Canada – up from $7.6bn (£6bn) 2019-2022 masking the Qatar World Cup which featured 32 international locations.