The average salaries are hard to calculate. For NRL it is simple because their cap is set for 25 players ($232,000 average). Same goes for the Super League (average of 66,000 pounds)
Top 14, Super Rugby, Aviva Premiership have caps but there are so many loopholes, credits and exemptions that it is hard to keep track of them. Not to mention there are club salaries and international contracts for each, and in the case of the Pro12 and Super Rugby, the caps are imposed by the governing body of the country the club is in and not by the league itself (the ARU pays more money than their NZ counterparts; Ospreys had to offload a lot of their stars because of the WRU cap but Ulster was able to keep opening McIlroy's chequebook etc). But the average salaries of the Top 14 and Aviva Premiership are in the 230,000 euros and 130,000 pound ranges if I've done the salary cap math right and that would be the low end because of the lack of transparency for how the contracts are counted.
But enough of that...
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