England head coach Eddie Jones agrees to take pay cut in excess of 25 per cent as RFU reduce costs

Jones and the RFU executive team have all agreed to the salary reduction.
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Will Macpherson26 March 2020

Eddie Jones has agreed to take a pay cut of more than 25% as English rugby looks to navigate its coronavirus crisis.

On Wednesday the RFU announced that it expected revenue losses of between £45m and £50m over the next 18 months, and said that its executive team would be taking a pay cut of at least 25% to mitigate this.

They also announced a £7m support package for community clubs, whose season was ended prematurely by Covid-19.

England Head Coach Jones was also asked to take a cut, which he agreed to, to his salary, which is reported to be worth £750,000 per year.

“Eddie is overseas at present and when I contacted him regarding our Executive pay reduction proposals he immediately agreed,” said RFU CEO Bill Sweeney.

The governing body is in consultation with Jones’s coaching staff about three-month reductions to their salaries.

England’s next engagement is supposed to be against Japan in July, but that two-Test tour looks increasingly likely to be called off.

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