Carlos Rodríguez vs Giulio Ciccone: salary and market value

Carlos Rodríguez vs Giulio Ciccone

	Carlos Rodríguez	Giulio Ciccone
Salary 2026	€2.5M Reported	€1.2M Model
Market value 2026	€1.3M Model	€2.2M Model
Salary against market value	+94%	-46%
Team	Netcompany INEOS	Lidl-Trek
Role	second-tier leader	key climber / super-domestique
Age	25	31
Nationality	Spain	Italy
Contract to	end of 2027 (announced Oct 2023)	end of 2029 (announced Jul 2025)
Prize money generated, 2026	€1,500	€49k
Prize money received, 2026 Model	€5,009	€15k
PCS rank	#237	#39

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.

Carlos Rodríguez earns more: €2.5M a year against €1.2M for Giulio Ciccone, 117% more. Carlos Rodríguez's figure is reported in the press; Giulio Ciccone's is our model estimate. Carlos Rodríguez is younger: 25 against 31. Carlos Rodríguez's contract runs out earlier, at the end of 2027; Giulio Ciccone's runs to the end of 2029. Carlos Rodríguez has the larger gap between salary and market value: his salary is 94% above his market value, against 46% below for Giulio Ciccone.

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Who earns more, Carlos Rodríguez or Giulio Ciccone?

Carlos Rodríguez earns more: €2.5M a year against €1.2M for Giulio Ciccone, 117% more.

Who has the higher market value, Carlos Rodríguez or Giulio Ciccone?

Giulio Ciccone: €2.2M against €1.3M for Carlos Rodríguez. Market value is our model's estimate of what the same job would cost on today's results.

Carlos Rodríguez vs Giulio Ciccone

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