Royal Challengers Bangalore’s captain Virat Kohli was the highest paid player in the ninth season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) with a salary of Rs. 15 crores.
RCB retained him for Rs. 12.5 crores but actually paid him Rs. 2.5 crores more than that.
Here is the complete list of highest paid/most expensive players in IPL 2016:
| Sr. No | Team | Player | Country | Purse Deduction (INR) | Actual Salary (INR) |
| 1 | RCB | Virat Kohli | India | 125,000,000.00 | 150,000,000.00 |
| 2 | SRH | Shikhar Dhawan | India | 125,000,000.00 | 125,000,000.00 |
| 3 | RPS | M.S. Dhoni | India | 125,000,000.00 | 125,000,000.00 |
| 4 | MI | Rohit Sharma | India | 125,000,000.00 | 115,000,000.00 |
| 5 | KKR | Gautam Gambhir | India | 125,000,000.00 | 100,000,000.00 |
| 6 | MI | Keiron Pollard | West Indies | 95,000,000.00 | 97,000,000.00 |
| 7 | RCB | AB de Villiers | South Africa | 95,000,000.00 | 95,000,000.00 |
| 8 | GL | Suresh Raina | India | 125,000,000.00 | 95,000,000.00 |
| 9 | RCB | Chris Gayle | West Indies | 75,000,000.00 | 84,000,000.00 |
| 10 | MI | Lasith Malinga | Sri Lanka | 75,000,000.00 | 81,000,000.00 |
| 11 | KKR | Sunil Narine | West Indies | 95,000,000.00 | 80,000,000.00 |
| 12 | MI | Harbhajan Singh | India | 55,000,000.00 | 80,000,000.00 |
| 13 | RPS | Ajinkya Rahane | India | 95,000,000.00 | 80,000,000.00 |
| 14 | RPS | Ravichandran Ashwin | India | 75,000,000.00 | 75,000,000.00 |
| 15 | MI | Ambati Rayudu | India | 40,000,000.00 | 60,000,000.00 |
| 16 | GL | Ravindra Jadeja | India | 95,000,000.00 | 55,000,000.00 |
| 17 | GL | James Faulkner | Australia | 55,000,000.00 | 51,000,000.00 |
| 18 | KXIP | David Miller | South Africa | 125,000,000.00 | 50,000,000.00 |
| 19 | RPS | Faf du Plessis | South Africa | 40,000,000.00 | 47,500,000.00 |
| 20 | RPS | Steven Smith | Australia | 55,000,000.00 | 40,000,000.00 |
| 21 | GL | Dwayne Bravo | West Indies | 40,000,000.00 | 40,000,000.00 |
| 22 | GL | Brendon McCullum | New Zealand | 75,000,000.00 | 32,500,000.00 |
