J. League stands for Japan Professional Football League. It has three divisions, J1, J2, and J3. J1 is the superior rank division.
The following table shows the top 150 annual salaries among J.League palyers in 2019.
| Rank | No. | Player | Age | Pos. | Salary, Yen | Euro | Club |
| 1 | 8 | Andres Iniesta | 35 | MF | 3,250,000,000 | 26,835,250 | Kobe |
| 2 | 9 | FERNANDO TORRES | 35 | FW | 800,000,000 | 6,605,600 | Tosu |
| 3 | 10 | Lukas Podolski | 34 | FW | 640,000,000 | 5,284,480 | Kobe |
| 4 | 7 | JO (João Alves de Assis Silva) | 32 | FW | 400,000,000 | 3,302,800 | Nagoya |
| 5 | 7 | David Villa | 37 | FW | 350,000,000 | 2,889,950 | Kobe |
| 6 | 1 | Mitchell James LANGERAK | 30 | GK | 200,000,000 | 1,651,400 | Nagoya |
| 7 | 44 | Mu KANAZAKI | 30 | FW | 150,000,000 | 1,238,550 | Tosu |
| 8 | 6 | Sergi Samper | 24 | MF | 130,000,000 | 1,073,410 | Kobe |
| 9 | 7 | Yasuhito ENDO | 39 | MF | 120,000,000 | 990,840 | G.Osaka |
| 9 | 14 | Kengo NAKAMURA | 38 | MF | 120,000,000 | 990,840 | Kawasaki |
| 9 | 41 | Akihiro IENAGA | 33 | MF | 120,000,000 | 990,840 | Kawasaki |
| 9 | 10 | Hiroshi KIYOTAKE | 29 | MF | 120,000,000 | 990,840 | C.Osaka |
| 13 | 1 | JUNG Sung Ryong | 34 | GK | 100,000,000 | 825,700 | Kawasaki |
| 13 | 1 | Shusaku NISHIKAWA | 33 | GK | 100,000,000 | 825,700 | Urawa |
| 13 | 21 | KIM Jin Hyeon | 32 | GK | 100,000,000 | 825,700 | C.Osaka |
| 13 | 5 | Tomoaki MAKINO | 32 | DF | 100,000,000 | 825,700 | Urawa |
| 13 | 10 | Yosuke KASHIWAGI | 31 | MF | 100,000,000 | 825,700 | Urawa |
| 13 | 11 | Yu KOBAYASHI | 31 | FW | 100,000,000 | 825,700 | Kawasaki |
| 13 | 49 | Dyanfres Douglas Chagas Matos | 31 | FW | 100,000,000 | 825,700 | Shimizu |
| 13 | 9 | LEANDRO DAMIAO | 29 | FW | 100,000,000 | 825,700 | Kawasaki |
| 13 | 10 | GABRIEL XAVIER | 26 | FW | 100,000,000 | 825,700 | Nagoya |
| 13 | 14 | Kenyu SUGIMOTO | 26 | FW | 100,000,000 | 825,700 | Urawa |
| 23 | 9 | CHONG Tese | 35 | FW | 95,000,000 | 784,415 | Shimizu |
| 24 | 30 | Shinzo KOROKI | 32 | FW | 90,000,000 | 743,130 | Urawa |
| 24 | 2 | Atsuto UCHIDA | 31 | DF | 90,000,000 | 743,130 | Kashima |
| 24 | 18 | Kim Seung Gyu | 28 | GK | 90,000,000 | 743,130 | Kobe |
| 24 | 10 | Ryota OSHIMA | 26 | MF | 90,000,000 | 743,130 | Kawasaki |
| 24 | 9 | ADEMILSON | 25 | FW | 90,000,000 | 743,130 | G.Osaka |
| 29 | 22 | MATEJ JONJIC | 28 | DF | 85,000,000 | 701,845 | C.Osaka |
| 30 | 21 | Hitoshi SOGAHATA | 39 | GK | 80,000,000 | 660,560 | Kashima |
| 30 | 1 | Masaaki HIGASHIGUCHI | 33 | GK | 80,000,000 | 660,560 | G.Osaka |
| 30 | 3 | Masato MORISHIGE | 32 | DF | 80,000,000 | 660,560 | F.Tokyo |
| 30 | 17 | Wellington | 31 | FW | 80,000,000 | 660,560 | Kobe |
| 30 | 12 | FABRICIO dos Santos Messias | 29 | FW | 80,000,000 | 660,560 | Urawa |
| 30 | 18 | "ELSINHO" Elson Ferreira de Sou | 29 | DF | 80,000,000 | 660,560 | Shimizu |
| 30 | 5 | Hotaru Yamaguchi | 28 | MF | 80,000,000 | 660,560 | Kobe |
| 30 | 9 | DIEGO OLIVEIRA | 28 | FW | 80,000,000 | 660,560 | F.Tokyo |
| 30 | 5 | Shogo TANIGUCHI | 27 | DF | 80,000,000 | 660,560 | Kawasaki |
| 30 | 7 | Shintaro KURUMAYA | 27 | DF | 80,000,000 | 660,560 | Kawasaki |
| 30 | 20 | JANG Hyun Soo | 27 | DF | 80,000,000 | 660,560 | F.Tokyo |
| 30 | 4 | JESIEL Cardoso Miranda | 25 | DF | 80,000,000 | 660,560 | Kawasaki |
| 42 | 4 | LEO SILVA | 33 | MF | 75,000,000 | 619,275 | Kashima |
| 42 | 19 | Manabu SAITO | 29 | MF | 75,000,000 | 619,275 | Kawasaki |
| 44 | 8 | Yoichiro KAKITANI | 29 | FW | 72,000,000 | 594,504 | C.Osaka |
| 45 | 22 | Yuki ABE | 37 | MF | 70,000,000 | 577,990 | Urawa |
| 45 | 8 | Yojiro TAKAHAGI | 32 | MF | 70,000,000 | 577,990 | F.Tokyo |
| 45 | 11 | Elierce Barbosa de SOUZA | 31 | MF | 70,000,000 | 577,990 | C.Osaka |
| 45 | 9 | Yuki MUTO | 30 | FW | 70,000,000 | 577,990 | Urawa |
| 45 | 8 | Hiroyuki ABE | 30 | MF | 70,000,000 | 577,990 | Kawasaki |
| 45 | 7 | Kazuki NAGASAWA | 27 | MF | 70,000,000 | 577,990 | Urawa |
| 45 | 6 | Ryosuke YAMANAKA | 26 | DF | 70,000,000 | 577,990 | Urawa |
| 45 | 8 | EWERTON da Silva Pereira | 26 | MF | 70,000,000 | 577,990 | Urawa |
| 45 | 19 | ANDREW NABBOUT | 26 | FW | 70,000,000 | 577,990 | Urawa |
| 54 | 6 | Toshihiro AOYAMA | 33 | MF | 68,000,000 | 561,476 | Hiroshima |
| 55 | 1 | KWOUN Sun Tae | 34 | GK | 65,000,000 | 536,705 | Kashima |
| 55 | 33 | Akihiro HAYASHI | 32 | GK | 65,000,000 | 536,705 | F.Tokyo |
| 55 | 6 | Kosuke OTA | 31 | DF | 65,000,000 | 536,705 | F.Tokyo |
| 58 | 16 | Shuto YAMAMOTO | 34 | DF | 60,000,000 | 495,420 | Kashima |
| 58 | 18 | Yoshifumi KASHIWA | 32 | MF | 60,000,000 | 495,420 | Hiroshima |
| 58 | 3 | Tomoya UGAJIN | 31 | MF | 60,000,000 | 495,420 | Urawa |
| 58 | 21 | Junya Tanaka | 31 | FW | 60,000,000 | 495,420 | Kobe |
| 58 | 25 | Yuta KOIKE | 31 | MF | 60,000,000 | 495,420 | Kashima |
| 58 | 21 | EDUARDO NETO | 30 | MF | 60,000,000 | 495,420 | Nagoya |
| 58 | 4 | Daisuke SUZUKI | 29 | DF | 60,000,000 | 495,420 | Urawa |
| 58 | 11 | Quenten Geordie Felix MARTIN | 28 | MF | 60,000,000 | 495,420 | Urawa |
| 58 | 2 | MAURICIO de Carvalho Antônio | 27 | DF | 60,000,000 | 495,420 | Urawa |
| 58 | 26 | MAGUINHO | 27 | DF | 60,000,000 | 495,420 | Kawasaki |
| 58 | 11 | LEANDRO (Weverson Leandro Ol | 26 | MF | 60,000,000 | 495,420 | Kashima |
| 58 | 31 | Takuya IWANAMI | 25 | DF | 60,000,000 | 495,420 | Urawa |
| 58 | 25 | GU Sung Yun | 25 | GK | 60,000,000 | 495,420 | Sapporo |
| 71 | 6 | Ryota NAGAKI | 31 | MF | 55,000,000 | 454,135 | Kashima |
| 71 | 10 | Shu KURATA | 30 | MF | 55,000,000 | 454,135 | G.Osaka |
| 71 | 15 | Adaílton dos Santos da Silva | 28 | MF | 55,000,000 | 454,135 | Iwata |
| 71 | 21 | Krzysztof Kamiński | 28 | GK | 55,000,000 | 454,135 | Iwata |
| 75 | 48 | JAY Bothroyd | 37 | FW | 50,000,000 | 412,850 | Sapporo |
| 75 | 3 | Kentaro OI | 35 | DF | 50,000,000 | 412,850 | Iwata |
| 75 | 11 | Naoki ISHIHARA | 35 | FW | 50,000,000 | 412,850 | Sendai |
| 75 | 5 | Naoyuki FUJITA | 32 | MF | 50,000,000 | 412,850 | C.Osaka |
| 75 | 13 | Yuji ROKUTAN | 32 | GK | 50,000,000 | 412,850 | Shimizu |
| 75 | 22 | Daigo Nishi | 31 | DF | 50,000,000 | 412,850 | Kobe |
| 75 | 17 | Yuichi MARUYAMA | 30 | DF | 50,000,000 | 412,850 | Nagoya |
| 75 | 11 | Kensuke NAGAI | 30 | FW | 50,000,000 | 412,850 | F.Tokyo |
| 75 | 3 | HWANG Seok Ho | 30 | DF | 50,000,000 | 412,850 | Shimizu |
| 75 | 16 | Takuya AOKI | 29 | MF | 50,000,000 | 412,850 | Urawa |
| 75 | 34 | Kazuya YAMAMURA | 29 | MF | 50,000,000 | 412,850 | Kawasaki |
| 75 | 10 | Keigo HIGASHI | 28 | MF | 50,000,000 | 412,850 | F.Tokyo |
| 75 | 10 | LEANDRO PEREIRA | 27 | FW | 50,000,000 | 412,850 | Matsumoto |
| 75 | 39 | Kotaro OMORI | 27 | MF | 50,000,000 | 412,850 | F.Tokyo |
| 75 | 8 | Shoma DOI | 27 | MF | 50,000,000 | 412,850 | Kashima |
| 75 | 15 | Carlos Eduardo Bendini Giusti | 26 | DF | 50,000,000 | 412,850 | Matsumoto |
| 75 | 11 | ANDERSON LOPES | 25 | FW | 50,000,000 | 412,850 | Sapporo |
| 75 | 11 | MATEUS dos Santos Castro | 24 | FW | 50,000,000 | 412,850 | Nagoya |
| 75 | 18 | SERGINHO (Sérgio Antônio Soler | 24 | MF | 50,000,000 | 412,850 | Kashima |
| 94 | 30 | Kosei SHIBASAKI | 34 | MF | 45,000,000 | 371,565 | Hiroshima |
| 94 | 15 | Sho ITO | 30 | FW | 45,000,000 | 371,565 | Kashima |
| 94 | 6 | LEANDRO DESABATO | 29 | MF | 45,000,000 | 371,565 | C.Osaka |
| 94 | 20 | Kengo KAWAMATA | 29 | FW | 45,000,000 | 371,565 | Iwata |
| 94 | 3 | Leandro Freire de Araújo | 29 | DF | 45,000,000 | 371,565 | Shonan |
| 94 | 2 | Takuji YONEMOTO | 28 | MF | 45,000,000 | 371,565 | Nagoya |
| 94 | 33 | Togo UMEDA | 28 | DF | 45,000,000 | 371,565 | Shimizu |
| 94 | 41 | Shohei TAKAHASHI | 27 | DF | 45,000,000 | 371,565 | Iwata |
| 94 | 2 | Shunsuke KIKUCHI | 27 | MF | 45,000,000 | 371,565 | Shonan |
| 94 | 5 | JUNG Seung Hyun | 25 | DF | 45,000,000 | 371,565 | Kashima |
| 94 | 20 | Kento MISAO | 23 | MF | 45,000,000 | 371,565 | Kashima |
| 105 | 4 | Hiroki FUJIHARU | 30 | DF | 42,000,000 | 346,794 | G.Osaka |
| 106 | 22 | Yoshito OKUBO | 37 | FW | 40,000,000 | 330,280 | Iwata |
| 106 | 5 | Kazuhiko CHIBA | 34 | DF | 40,000,000 | 330,280 | Nagoya |
| 106 | 46 | Ryota MORIWAKI | 33 | DF | 40,000,000 | 330,280 | Urawa |
| 106 | 5 | Daiki NIWA | 33 | DF | 40,000,000 | 330,280 | F.Tokyo |
| 106 | 20 | Tadanari LEE | 33 | FW | 40,000,000 | 330,280 | Yokohama.M |
| 106 | 21 | Hiroki IIKURA | 33 | GK | 40,000,000 | 330,280 | Yokohama.M |
| 106 | 39 | Kazuma WATANABE | 32 | FW | 40,000,000 | 330,280 | G.Osaka |
| 106 | 13 | Tomohiko MIYAZAKI | 32 | MF | 40,000,000 | 330,280 | Iwata |
| 106 | 1 | Yota AKIMOTO | 31 | GK | 40,000,000 | 330,280 | Shonan |
| 106 | 36 | Hideto TAKAHASHI | 31 | MF | 40,000,000 | 330,280 | Tosu |
| 106 | 9 | RAMON LOPES | 30 | FW | 40,000,000 | 330,280 | Sendai |
| 106 | 32 | VICTOR IBARBO | 29 | FW | 40,000,000 | 330,280 | Tosu |
| 106 | 7 | Yuki OTSU | 29 | FW | 40,000,000 | 330,280 | Yokohama.M |
| 106 | 14 | Yusuke MARUHASHI | 28 | DF | 40,000,000 | 330,280 | C.Osaka |
| 106 | 7 | Taishi TAGUCHI | 28 | MF | 40,000,000 | 330,280 | Iwata |
| 106 | 8 | Serginho (Sergio Ricardo Dos Sa | 28 | MF | 40,000,000 | 330,280 | Matsumoto |
| 106 | 10 | Jun AMANO | 27 | MF | 40,000,000 | 330,280 | Yokohama.M |
| 106 | 2 | Sei MUROYA | 25 | DF | 40,000,000 | 330,280 | F.Tokyo |
| 106 | 18 | Kento HASHIMOTO | 25 | MF | 40,000,000 | 330,280 | F.Tokyo |
| 125 | 2 | Daisuke Nasu | 37 | DF | 38,000,000 | 313,766 | Kobe |
| 126 | 17 | Yosuke KAWAI | 30 | MF | 37,000,000 | 305,509 | Shimizu |
| 126 | 2 | Kyohei NOBORIZATO | 28 | DF | 37,000,000 | 305,509 | Kawasaki |
| 128 | 1 | Takuto HAYASHI | 37 | GK | 35,000,000 | 288,995 | Hiroshima |
| 128 | 9 | Ken TOKURA | 33 | FW | 35,000,000 | 288,995 | C.Osaka |
| 128 | 9 | Hiroyuki TAKASAKI | 33 | FW | 35,000,000 | 288,995 | Matsumoto |
| 128 | 17 | Shingo TOMITA | 33 | MF | 35,000,000 | 288,995 | Sendai |
| 128 | 3 | Hirofumi Watanabe | 31 | DF | 35,000,000 | 288,995 | Kobe |
| 128 | 2 | Dušan Cvetinović | 30 | DF | 35,000,000 | 288,995 | Yokohama.M |
| 128 | 7 | ISAAC CUENCA | 28 | MF | 35,000,000 | 288,995 | Tosu |
| 128 | 13 | Atsutaka NAKAMURA | 28 | MF | 35,000,000 | 288,995 | Kashima |
| 128 | 6 | Takahiro OHGIHARA | 27 | MF | 35,000,000 | 288,995 | Yokohama.M |
| 128 | 39 | Tomoya INUKAI | 26 | DF | 35,000,000 | 288,995 | Kashima |
| 128 | 41 | Ryohei SHIRASAKI | 26 | MF | 35,000,000 | 288,995 | Kashima |
| 128 | 27 | Ken MATSUBARA | 26 | DF | 35,000,000 | 288,995 | Yokohama.M |
| 128 | 22 | Itsuki ODA | 24 | DF | 35,000,000 | 288,995 | Kashima |
| 128 | 20 | Shinnosuke NAKATANI | 23 | DF | 35,000,000 | 288,995 | Nagoya |
| 142 | 23 | Daiki MITSUI | 29 | DF | 33,000,000 | 272,481 | Nagoya |
| 143 | 7 | Kota MIZUNUMA | 29 | MF | 32,000,000 | 264,224 | C.Osaka |
| 144 | 44 | Shinji ONO | 39 | MF | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Sapporo |
| 144 | 10 | RYANG Yong Gi | 37 | MF | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Sendai |
| 144 | 3 | Hayuma TANAKA | 36 | DF | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Matsumoto |
| 144 | 1 | Takanori SUGENO | 35 | GK | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Sapporo |
| 144 | 4 | Yuzo KURIHARA | 35 | DF | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Yokohama.M |
| 144 | 11 | Yohei TOYODA | 34 | FW | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Tosu |
| 144 | 9 | BESART BERISHA | 34 | FW | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Hiroshima |
| 144 | 30 | Naoaki AOYAMA | 33 | DF | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | G.Osaka |
| 144 | 13 | Yuzo KOBAYASHI | 33 | DF | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Tosu |
| 144 | 7 | Tsukasa UMESAKI | 32 | MF | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Shonan |
| 144 | 23 | Tatsuya YAMASHITA | 31 | DF | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | C.Osaka |
| 144 | 32 | Atomu TANAKA | 31 | MF | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | C.Osaka |
| 144 | 23 | SIMAO MATE | 31 | DF | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Sendai |
| 144 | 20 | DOUGLAS VIEIRA | 31 | FW | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Hiroshima |
| 144 | 19 | Hiroki YAMADA | 30 | MF | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Iwata |
| 144 | 14 | PAULINHO (Paulo Robert Gonza | 30 | MF | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Matsumoto |
| 144 | 10 | Hiroki MIYAZAWA | 30 | MF | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Sapporo |
| 144 | 38 | Shun NAGASAWA | 30 | FW | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Sendai |
| 144 | 25 | Hiroaki OKUNO | 29 | MF | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | C.Osaka |
| 144 | 18 | Naoki YAMADA | 29 | MF | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Urawa |
| 144 | 5 | THEERATHON | 29 | DF | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Yokohama.M |
| 144 | 17 | Kazuaki MAWATARI | 28 | DF | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Kawasaki |
| 144 | 30 | EDIGAR JUNIO | 28 | FW | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Yokohama.M |
| 144 | 14 | Yoshiaki KOMAI | 27 | MF | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Sapporo |
| 144 | 22 | LELEU (Claudionor Souza de Jesu | 26 | MF | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Shonan |
| 144 | 13 | Keijiro Ogawa | 26 | FW | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Kobe |
| 144 | 5 | Akito FUKUMORI | 26 | DF | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Sapporo |
| 144 | 9 | MARCOS JUNIOR | 26 | FW | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Yokohama.M |
| 144 | 29 | Ryuji IZUMI | 25 | MF | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Nagoya |
| 144 | 3 | Tatsuki NARA | 25 | DF | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Kawasaki |
| 144 | 7 | LUCAS FERNANDES | 25 | MF | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Sapporo |
| 144 | 18 | CHANATHIP Songkrasin | 25 | MF | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Sapporo |
| 144 | 5 | Genta MIURA | 24 | DF | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | G.Osaka |
| 144 | 25 | Naoki MAEDA | 24 | FW | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Nagoya |
| 144 | 13 | THIAGO MARTINS | 24 | DF | 30,000,000 | 247,710 | Yokohama.M |
Source is Sakamane. www.soccer-money.net/team/in_team.php
