Giulio Pellizzari vs Paul Lapeira: salary and market value

Giulio Pellizzari vs Paul Lapeira

	Giulio Pellizzari	Paul Lapeira
Salary 2026	€1.2M Reported	€1.2M Model
Market value 2026	€2.6M Model	€1.2M Model
Salary against market value	-55%	-5%
Team	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	Decathlon CMA CGM
Role	second-tier leader	key climber / super-domestique
Age	22	26
Nationality	Italy	France
Contract to	end of 2029 (announced Dec 2025)	end of 2027 (announced Jan 2025)
Prize money generated, 2026	€59k	€7,760
Prize money received, 2026 Model	€28k	€7,940
PCS rank	#17	#62

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.

Giulio Pellizzari earns more: €1.2M a year against €1.2M for Paul Lapeira, 3% more. Giulio Pellizzari's figure is reported in the press; Paul Lapeira's is our model estimate. Giulio Pellizzari is younger: 22 against 26. Paul Lapeira's contract runs out earlier, at the end of 2027; Giulio Pellizzari's runs to the end of 2029. Giulio Pellizzari has the larger gap between salary and market value: his salary is 55% below his market value, against 5% below for Paul Lapeira.

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Who earns more, Giulio Pellizzari or Paul Lapeira?

Giulio Pellizzari earns more: €1.2M a year against €1.2M for Paul Lapeira, 3% more.

Who has the higher market value, Giulio Pellizzari or Paul Lapeira?

Giulio Pellizzari: €2.6M against €1.2M for Paul Lapeira. Market value is our model's estimate of what the same job would cost on today's results.

Giulio Pellizzari vs Paul Lapeira

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