It pays to be a New York Yankee — like $35.8 million over a five-year period.
That’s how much the average Yankee player was paid over the past five seasons, according to a survey out Tuesday.
That’s 30 percent more than the Phillies, the baseball team with the No. 2 per-player salary over the 2010-14 seasons, the survey, in Sporting Intelligence, a UK publication, said.
The average salary reflects total payroll divided by the number of players on the roster.
The survey looked at franchises in leagues around the globe. Soccer club Barcelona, in Spain’s La Liga, had the highest average per-player salary over five seasons, at $38 million.
To show just how lucrative it is to play for the Bronx Bombers, the average five-year salary for a member of the Cleveland Indians, one of the lower-payroll MLB clubs, is just under $12 million — or one-third the take of an average Yankee.
Looking at just 2014, the average Yankee salary is $8 million — placing it No. 2 worldwide behind just Manchester City’s average player salary of $8.1 million, the survey found.
The LA Dodgers were the No. 2 baseball team, paying its players an average $7.8 million.
The Dodgers $241,1 million payroll was bigger than the Yanks but it had 31 players on its opening day roster while the Yanks, with a total payroll of $208.8 million, had 26 players on its roster, the survey said.