Only roster spots 1-20 are counted towards the cap, 19 and 20 are "optional" spots (meaning you can fill spots 21-30 before you have to fill 19 and 20), and GA players don't count towards the cap. Any one player can only contribute up to $350,000 to the salary cap as well. Sporting Kansas City's salary spots currently look like this (as of 12/12/12 which includes the Feilhaber and Opara trades)
| 1 | Feilhaber, Benny | 400,000 |
| 2 | Nagamuro, Paulo | 250,000 |
| 3 | Collin, Aurelien | 210,000 |
| 4 | Kamara, Kei | 210,000 |
| 5 | Convery, Bobby | 200,000 |
| 6 | Nielson, Jimmy | 200,000 |
| 7 | Zusi, Graham | 105,000 |
| 8 | Opara, Ike | 100,000 |
| 9 | Besler, Matt | 91,751 |
| 10 | Myers, Chance | 86,000 |
| 11 | Peterson, Jacob | 81,000 |
| 12 | Kronberg, Eric | 69,850 |
| 13 | Dwyer, Dom | 60,000 |
| 14 | Sinovic, Seth | 60,000 |
| 15 | Thomas, Michael | 55,000 |
| 16 | Gardner, Josh | 54,120 |
| 17 | Kempin, Jonathan | 46,500 |
| 18 | Joseph, Peterson | 44,100 |
Which puts the total salary budget at $2,273,321. Now, we would expect Feilhaber, Opara, and Gardner to take some pay cuts (mostly Feilhaber), but we would also expect that Besler got quite a bit of a raise when he was re-signed this morning (although the pic Robb took wasn't sharp enough for me to tell ;) ). Let's just call it a net wash between those four players so far.
$2,273,321. So we still have over half a million in cap space BEFORE we pay any of it down with allocation money.
