Worth noting those numbers the AFL publish don’t include rookies because it makes the median salary look better, and the AFL like looking rich. The numbers are for 703 players, which is 18x40 man squads (ie not rookies) less those who retired before the season started, and less teams (like us) not running full senior lists. So scrub McNiece, Lavender, Mynott, Draper, and McKernan off the list.
If you’re bored you can figure the numbers for the 1st and 2nd main list year players from http://www.aflplayers.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/2017-2022-CBA.pdf
eg McGrath has earned so far this year 130k base (pick 1-20, played 17+ games last year) + 90k in match payments (18 x 5k) + 12k bonus for playing 15+ games this year. Assuming he plays the last two games for another 10k in match payments, that makes $242k.
As an aside, any payments to a rookie above the minimum contract count against the cap, so you can be reasonably sure anyone on the rookie list who wasn’t dropped there already on a contract will be on the minimum, otherwise you’re taking cap space on rookies.
So it’s basically certain that Begley, Ridley, Houlahan, Zerk-Thatcher, Mutch, Clarke and Guelfi are under 200k, and contractually certain McGrath earned over 200k this year, given even those on contract extensions are still in the first two years of said contract.