FIFA leads the field on pay

Members of the media stand in front of the FIFA headquarters during an extraordinary Executive Committee meeting in Zurich, Switzerland, May 30, 2015. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

LONDON (Reuters) - Football's international administrators, like players on the field, are collecting salaries that outstrip most of their peers in other sports, and no less so than at FIFA, annual accounts from governing bodies show.

Average pay and pension contributions for staff at Zurich-based FIFA, the global football federation which is caught up in a corruption scandal, was $242,000 (158,026 pounds) per employee last year.