Lionel Messi remains the highest-paid player in Major League Soccer (MLS) for the third consecutive year in 2025, earning a total annual salary of approximately $20.4 million. His compensation surpasses the entire payrolls of 21 MLS teams, highlighting his dominant financial status within the league. Messi plays for Inter Miami, a club whose salary expenditures, bolstered by Messi and two former Barcelona players, exceed those of all other MLS teams. The salary data also reveal new entrants in the top 10 highest earners in the league, including players like Miguel Almirón, Latte Lath, and Denkey. Messi's salary, reported as $20,446,667, translates to roughly 29.65 billion Japanese yen or 27.8 billion South Korean won, underscoring the global attention on his earnings. Two Toronto FC players are also ranked among the top six earners in MLS. The release of this official salary data marks the first comprehensive disclosure of player salaries in MLS for the 2025 season.