Highest Paid MLB Managers For 2025: Roberts, Counsell Top The List

Early on in the month of March, the Los Angeles Dodgers handed manager Dave Roberts a four-year contract extension. Where does the new deal rank amongst his peers for the most lucrative deals in the major leagues? We take a look at the highest-paid managers in the MLB for 2025 and beyond.

Five Largest Annual Contracts For MLB Managers

(Facts & figures according to Boardroom)

5. (Tie) Stephen Vogt (CLE) & Ron Washington (LAA) – $4 million

Vogt is the manager who has the least amount of experience amongst the top-5 highest paid. He is in just his second year as the leader of the Cleveland Guardians, who won the AL Central Division in 2024 during his first season at the helm.

Conversely, Washington is currently in his 10th year as a manager. He took the job with the Angels prior to the 2024 season after spending nine years as a lower-level coach with the Oakland A’s and Atlanta Braves. In his first job as a manager with the Texas Rangers, Washington led the team to two AL pennants in eight years.

4. Bruce Bochy (TEX) – $4.5 million

Bochy has been one of the most successful MLB managers in recent memory, and he is being compensated as such. After winning three World Series rings in five years with the San Francisco Giants early in the previous decade, he signed on with the Rangers before the 2023 season, and Texas won it all in Bochy’s first year with the team.

He is currently in the final season of a three-year deal that pays him $4.5 million annually.

3. Torey Lovullo (ARI)  – $5 million

Lovullo is in his eighth season as the manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks, with the most successful being the 2023 run to the World Series. On the heels of that successful season, the team handed the now 59-year-old Lovullo an extension that would keep him in Arizona until at least the end of the 2026 MLB season.

He is one of just three managers that is making $5 million+ annually.

HISTORY: Fresh off a World Series win—their second in five years—the Dodgers are locking in Dave Roberts as MLB’s highest-paid manager of all-time on an average annual value basis.⁠
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The 52-year-old skipper just secured a four-year, $32.4M deal, per ESPN’s @Alden_Gonzalez,… pic.twitter.com/JUpwVuB8IL

— Boardroom (@boardroom) March 10, 2025

2. Craig Counsell (CHC) – $8 million

Counsell spurned the Milwaukee Brewers ahead of the 2024 season, leaving the team that he managed for nine years in order to take the same job with one of their biggest rivals. But it was hard for Counsell to turn down the money that the Chicago Cubs offered, which was an $8 million annual payday over the course of five seasons.

He is currently in his second year at the helm, though the Cubs aren’t expected to make much noise in the National League this season.

1. Dave Roberts (LAD) – $8.1 million

Roberts signed his current deal with the Dodgers on the heels of his most successful season leading the team, and got a deal that gives him slightly more on an annual basis than what Counsell earns with the Cubs. Roberts’ extension comes in at $8.1 million, which makes him the highest paid manager in the MLB overall.

Los Angeles is heavily favored to win the World Series once again in 2025.