Giulio Pellizzari vs Pavel Bittner: salary and market value

Giulio Pellizzari vs Pavel Bittner

	Giulio Pellizzari	Pavel Bittner
Salary 2026	€1.2M Reported	€572k Model
Market value 2026	€2.6M Model	€1.1M Model
Salary against market value	-55%	-49%
Team	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	Picnic PostNL
Role	second-tier leader	key climber / super-domestique
Age	22	23
Nationality	Italy	Czechia
Contract to	end of 2029 (announced Dec 2025)	end of 2028 (announced Aug 2024)
Prize money generated, 2026	€59k	€12k
Prize money received, 2026 Model	€28k	€2,855
PCS rank	#17	#79

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 €572k for Pavel Bittner, 110% more. Giulio Pellizzari's figure is reported in the press; Pavel Bittner's is our model estimate. Giulio Pellizzari is younger: 22 against 23. Pavel Bittner's contract runs out earlier, at the end of 2028; 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 49% below for Pavel Bittner.

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Who earns more, Giulio Pellizzari or Pavel Bittner?

Giulio Pellizzari earns more: €1.2M a year against €572k for Pavel Bittner, 110% more.

Who has the higher market value, Giulio Pellizzari or Pavel Bittner?

Giulio Pellizzari: €2.6M against €1.1M for Pavel Bittner. Market value is our model's estimate of what the same job would cost on today's results.

Giulio Pellizzari vs Pavel Bittner

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