Two Giants Among Top 25 Performance-Based Pay Distributions for 2023

Two Giants players from last year's roster earn some additional coin for their play last season.

New York Giants safety Jason Pinnock and former offensive lineman Ben Bredeson, now with Tampa Bay, are among the top 25 players who qualified for the league's 2023 Performance-Based Pay Distribution program.

Pinnock, who earned the starting free safety role last year, ranked 11th on the top 25, earning an additional $817,224 in earnings. Bredeson, who played both guard and center for the Giants, ranked 19th with a $764,130 PBP bonus.

The Performance-Based Pay program is a collectively bargained benefit that compensates all players based on their playing time and salary levels. If a player's play time exceeds his salary, he received an increase which is designed to bring his salary on par with his deployment.

Here is some additional information about how the PBP indices are calculated:

"Performance-Based Pay is computed by using a player index (“Index”). To calculate the Index, a player’s “PBP Playtime” (defined as the player’s regular season total plays played on offense, defense and special teams, divided by the number of plays in which the player with the most total combined plays participated on that team) is divided by his “PBP Compensation” (defined as each player’s regular season full salary, including his prorated portion of signing bonus, and earned incentives).

"Each player’s Index is then compared to those of all other players on his team to determine the amount of his Performance-Based Pay. If a player’s full season salary is less than the CBA Minimum Salary for a player with seven or more Credited Seasons, additional salary will be imputed to that player so that his salary is equal to the Minimum Salary for a player with seven or more Credited Seasons (i.e., $1.165M for the 2023 season).

"By imputing a minimum salary of $1.165 million, a slightly higher percentage of the pool is directed to high-performing veteran players whose salaries exceed $1.165 million, but are not among the highest in the League, as contemplated by the formula. This imputation of salary is solely for the purpose of calculating distributions from the pool and does not affect the actual salary paid to the player under his contract."

The PBP is classified as a benefit for players and therefore does not count against the salary cap. It is also different from performance escalators that are built into contracts and which do count toward the cap.

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