LeBron James Salary and Career Earnings

For LeBron James basketball has always been as important as business. LeBron in 2018 accepted the move to the Los Angeles Lakers not only to chase another title, obtained in the 2019/20 season, but also to start working on his future off the pitch for when he retires.

Thanks to his ability on the field and his skills as a businessman, his salary as a player and the endorsements have grown year on year reaching astronomical numbers.

LeBron James Salary

The salary paid by the Los Angeles Lakers to LeBron James in the 2024/2025 season is 48.7 million dollars.

In 2023 LeBron James signed a 2-year contract with the Lakers worth a total of $102 million and an average annual salary of $52 million. Despite the numbers, however, he out of the top-10 highest salary in the NBA.

How much does LeBron James make a year?

Considering salary and endorsements, in 2024/25 LeBron James will gross $ 133.4 million, behind Steph Curry as the highest paid NBA player ever.

In 2016 LeBron signed a lifetime contract with Nike for the value of about 1 billion dollars. But this is not the only deal: he has deals with many other companies that allow him to earn about 64 million dollars a season only from endorsements.

In addition to Nike, its main sponsors include: Samsung, Blaze Pizza, Beats Electronics, Sprite, Upper Deck, State Farm Insurance, Audemars Piguet, Dunkin ‘Donuts, Kia, Verizon, Intel.

LeBron James Career earnings