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Benoît Cosnefroy vs Samuel Watson

Benoît CosnefroySamuel Watson
Salary 2026€1.4M Model€543k Model
Market value 2026€2.6M Model€1.1M Model
Salary against market value-48%-52%
TeamUAE Team Emirates-XRGNetcompany INEOS
Rolekey climber / super-domestiquekey climber / super-domestique
Age3024
NationalityFranceGreat Britain
Contract toend of 2028 (announced Oct 2025)end of 2026 (announced Aug 2024)
Prize money generated, 2026€120k€5,100
Prize money received, 2026 Model€27k€5,379
PCS rank#38#348

Salary: gross base salary, before tax. Reported or Press estimate when the press published it, Model when it is our estimate; market value is always our model. How the model works · How wrong it is. Prize money generated: what the rider won at WorldTour and ProSeries races, pooled with the team, not kept.

Benoît Cosnefroy earns more: €1.4M a year against €543k for Samuel Watson, 152% more. Both figures are our model estimates. Samuel Watson is younger: 24 against 30. Samuel Watson's contract runs out earlier, at the end of 2026; Benoît Cosnefroy's runs to the end of 2028. Samuel Watson has the larger gap between salary and market value: his salary is 52% below his market value, against 48% below for Benoît Cosnefroy.

Questions

Who earns more, Benoît Cosnefroy or Samuel Watson?

Benoît Cosnefroy earns more: €1.4M a year against €543k for Samuel Watson, 152% more.

Who has the higher market value, Benoît Cosnefroy or Samuel Watson?

Benoît Cosnefroy: €2.6M against €1.1M for Samuel Watson. Market value is our model's estimate of what the same job would cost on today's results.

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