Taking a closer look at LHC

CERN Budget

Income Summary

To put the CERN budget in context, we can take into account that the wage bill for La Liga clubs (Spanish football) in the 2025/2026 season reached a record figure of nearly €3 billion
Another interesting fact in this respect is to consider that the salary of the football players of PSG (Paris St Germain) and Manchester City was altogether 1200 million euros in the season 2023/24.

(More information in CERN in Figures)

AUTHORS

Xabier Cid Vidal, PhD in experimental Particle Physics for Santiago University (USC). Research Fellow in experimental Particle Physics at CERN from January 2013 to Decembre 2015. He was until 2022 linked to the Department of Particle Physics of the USC as a "Juan de La Cierva", "Ramon y Cajal" fellow (Spanish Postdoctoral Senior Grants), and Associate Professor. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Galician Institute of High Energy Physics (IGFAE) and leads the IGFAE team working on the CMS experiment at CERN.(ORCID).

Ramon Cid Manzano, until his retirement in 2020 was secondary school Physics Teacher at IES de SAR (Santiago - Spain), and part-time Lecturer (Profesor Asociado) in Faculty of Education at the University of Santiago (Spain). He has a Degree in Physics and a Degree in Chemistry, and he is PhD for Santiago University (USC) (ORCID).

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