article_snippet: However, despite this extra income clubs showed relative restraint in wage costs, which grew by 6 per cent to £1.9bn. '
article_snippet: In the first year of the preceding two broadcast deals, 56 per cent and 81 cent of respective revenue growth was absorbed by wage costs.
article_snippet: This time it is less than 20 per cent.'
highlights_snippet: It is first time this has occurred since 1998/99 .
  
highlights_snippet: But wages have grown by just six per cent in the same period .
  