How much more money Kyle Walker-Peters is earning at West Ham compared to Southampton | OneFootball

Kyle Walker-Peters switched from Southampton to Premier League West Ham United in the summer of 2025

Kyle Walker-Peters spent five years with Southampton, becoming a key player for the Saints at full-back in that time before running down his contract and joining West Ham in the summer of 2025, where he has seemingly received a massive bump-up in his pay slip.

Having spent his entire youth career with Tottenham Hotspur, it looked as if at one stage that Walker-Peters would become Spurs' new starting right-back following the departure of the similarly-named Kyle Walker.

Walker-Peters represented England at numerous youth levels, from Under-18s to the Under-21s, and made his full Premier League debut with his boyhood club at the beginning of the 2017/18 season away at Newcastle United, where he was awarded Man of the Match.

Despite this, he lost his place thereafter to Kieran Trippier, and would only make 24 appearances for Spurs across all competitions before joining Southampton on loan in January 2020, before permanently switching to the Saints the following summer for £12 million, signing a five-year deal on the South Coast.

Walker-Peters would be a mainstay in the side during his five years at St Mary's, making over 200 appearances across all competitions for the club, helping them earn promotion back to the Premier League in 2024 after relegation the season prior, and would join West Ham in the summer of 2025 upon the expiry of his Southampton deal.

Kyle Walker-Peters went from £20,000-per-week at Southampton to £55,000-per-week at West Ham United

Throughout his five-year deal with Southampton, Walker-Peters was earning around £20,000-per-week, according to Capology, and after joining West Ham, he saw his wages over double to £55,000-per-week at the London Stadium.

At 28, the twice-capped England international signed a three-year deal with Hammers, and upon his arrival, he said: "I’m really excited. It feels like it has been a long-time coming - I’ve been linked with a move to the Club in the past - and I’m just happy to be here now."

Walker-Peters cited a huge factor for his reasoning behind joining West Ham was Graham Potter, who lasted just nine months in charge of the Hammers, having taken over in January 2025 and was sacked in September 2025.

Now with Nuno Espirito Santo at the helm, it's likely Walker-Peters isn't losing sleep over the dismissal of Potter, having seen a dramatic pay rise with his decision to join West Ham, which will earn him in excess of £8.5 million across his three-year stay with the club.

Adept at playing at either left-back or right-back, Walker-Peters offers Portuguese head coach Espirito Santo a large degree of versatility.

El Hadji Malick Diouf and Aaron Wan-Bissaka are the club's first-choice options at either full-back position, with the former Spurs and Southampton man able to deputise in either role should he be required, having done so during his time with the Saints.

At 28, Walker-Peters is entering his prime years, and with competition at left-back in the England squad arguably the nation's weakest area, with Myles Lewis-Skelly and Dan Burn, Thomas Tuchel's current options, if Walker-Peters can assert himself into the Hammers side before too long, he could yet add to those two caps he already has.

With over 150 Premier League appearances, the Englishman has forged a successful career for himself in the top flight, and although he hasn't hit the heights some thought he was capable of doing during his early days with Spurs, with a £55,000-per-week wage, it's likely that Walker-Peters is content with how it has panned out.