What is the average salary of a professional peloton cyclist?

Last week the annual seminar of the International Cycling Union. In this meeting, apart from discussing the use of controversial carbon monoxide inhalers to improve performance, other issues also come to light, such as team budgets and the broker’s salary.

With this information, that not available to the publiconly Italian sports newspapers have access, The Gazzetta dello Sport. However, it did not take long to publish a report in which it explains everything. Thus we can get an idea of How the economy developed in the WorldTour these last seasons and what forecast for next year.

In reference to broker’s salarya topic discussed in recent weeks after learning about Tadej Pogacar’s contract, the Gazzetta is explained that the wage gap between the highest paid cyclists (the Slovenian, Jonas Vingegaard, Mathieu van der Poel and Remco Evenepoel) with the rest of the peloton is increasing.

So the big stars They received higher rewards than simple sociable people who worked hard for their leaders. Despite this difference, the average salary of cyclists also increased since 2021. And when that year is around 373,000 euros, while In 2024 it has reached 499,000 euros. In anticipation of the next campaign, it is expected to exceed 500,000 euros.

Here we must add that the Budget of WorldTour teams has also increased from 379 million euros in 2021 (considering that there are 19 groups) to 499 million euros in 2024 with 18 squads. Despite this, there are some that have a higher economic capacity than others and prompted the UCI to propose and study the needed for set some sort of salary cap in the future to avoid this discrepancy.