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Jhonatan Narváez vs Tim Merlier

Jhonatan NarváezTim Merlier
Salary 2026€1.3M Model€1.7M Model
Market value 2026€1.3M Model€2M Model
Salary against market value0%-15%
TeamUAE Team Emirates-XRGSoudal Quick-Step
Rolekey climber / super-domestiquesecond-tier leader
Age2933
NationalityEcuadorBelgium
Contract toend of 2029 (announced Jun 2026)end of 2028 (announced Jan 2025)
Prize money generated, 2026€50k€71k
Prize money received, 2026 Model€18k€15k
PCS rank#72#29

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.

Tim Merlier earns more: €1.7M a year against €1.3M for Jhonatan Narváez, 29% more. Both figures are our model estimates. Jhonatan Narváez is younger: 29 against 33. Tim Merlier's contract runs out earlier, at the end of 2028; Jhonatan Narváez's runs to the end of 2029. Tim Merlier has the larger gap between salary and market value: his salary is 15% below his market value, against 0% below for Jhonatan Narváez.

Questions

Who earns more, Jhonatan Narváez or Tim Merlier?

Tim Merlier earns more: €1.7M a year against €1.3M for Jhonatan Narváez, 29% more.

Who has the higher market value, Jhonatan Narváez or Tim Merlier?

Tim Merlier: €2M against €1.3M for Jhonatan Narváez. Market value is our model's estimate of what the same job would cost on today's results.

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