How much more Nathan Broadhead earns at Wrexham compared to Ipswich Town wage | OneFootball

Nathan Broadhead’s move to promoted side Wrexham was one of the biggest in the Championship last summer

Nathan Broadhead’s move from Ipswich Town to Wrexham during the summer was one of the Championship transfer window’s most eye-catching moves.

Just last season, the Red Dragons were acclimatising to their first season in League One, while Broadhead was fighting to stay in the Premier League with the Tractor Boys.

A promotion and relegation have brought the two sides together in the second tier this season, but that doesn’t make Wrexham’s £10m move for the 27-year-old any less audacious.

It smashed Wrexham’s previous transfer record, which stood at £3m for Lewis O’Brien, but what did it mean for Broadhead’s personal finances? Football League World take a look…

How much Nathan Broadhead earned at Ipswich Town

Broadhead was a key figure in both of Ipswich’s back-to-back promotions, first from League One, where he scored eight goals and provided five assists in 19 league appearances, and then from the Championship, where he netted 13 goals and provided three assists.

When he first signed for the club in January 2023, the forward was handed a £3k per week salary by the then-League One club, according to Capology estimates.

In the 2024/25 season, Capology reports that this doubled to £6k per week, a significant boost, but a fraction of what many of his peers will have been earning in the Premier League.

After a relatively quiet season in the top tier, however – scoring two league goals in 18 outings – Broadhead was about to get the biggest pay rise of his career.

How much Nathan Broadhead’s wage increase due to Wrexham move

It was announced in August earlier this year that Wrexham had signed the Wales international from new division rivals Ipswich.

He signed a four-year deal on arrival in Phil Parkinson’s side, which came with it a significant pay increase to his Portman Road earnings.

According to Capology, his new contract doubled his weekly wage, from £6k with Ipswich to £12.5k with Wrexham.

It followed an expensive summer for Wrexham, as they attempted to recruit talent to sustain themselves in the second tier, and potentially kick on from there.

While money will not have been the only motivation for Broadhead, it was certainly a benefit of the move.

Nathan Broadhead still has work to do at Wrexham

As things stand, Broadhead still has work to do to prove he was worth the substantial outlay.

He has managed just a handful of Championship starts for the Red Dragons so far this season, as he continues to find his feet with his new side.

While he has managed net a couple of goals during that time, and has shown the potential he has to be an important source of goals, he has yet to grow into the talisman his fee suggests he should be, but his wage belies the fact that he was never intended to be Wrexham’s primary attacking threat this season.

That burden was being shouldered by top earner Kieffer Moore, estimated to be on £30,000 per week, and he is handling that pressure expertly, with seven goals in 15 Championship games prior to his injury.