Kévin Vauquelin vs Laurence Pithie: salary and market value

Kévin Vauquelin vs Laurence Pithie

	Kévin Vauquelin	Laurence Pithie
Salary 2026	€800k Reported	€1M Model
Market value 2026	€2.5M Model	€1.3M Model
Salary against market value	-68%	-24%
Team	Netcompany INEOS	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe
Role	second-tier leader	key climber / super-domestique
Age	25	24
Nationality	France	New Zealand
Contract to	end of 2028 (announced Oct 2025)	end of 2027 (announced Aug 2024)
Prize money generated, 2026	€26k	€54k
Prize money received, 2026 Model	€4,913	€18k
PCS rank	#85	#27

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.

Laurence Pithie earns more: €1M a year against €800k for Kévin Vauquelin, 26% more. Laurence Pithie's figure is our model estimate; Kévin Vauquelin's is reported in the press. Laurence Pithie is younger: 24 against 25. Laurence Pithie's contract runs out earlier, at the end of 2027; Kévin Vauquelin's runs to the end of 2028. Kévin Vauquelin has the larger gap between salary and market value: his salary is 68% below his market value, against 24% below for Laurence Pithie.

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Who earns more, Kévin Vauquelin or Laurence Pithie?

Laurence Pithie earns more: €1M a year against €800k for Kévin Vauquelin, 26% more.

Who has the higher market value, Kévin Vauquelin or Laurence Pithie?

Kévin Vauquelin: €2.5M against €1.3M for Laurence Pithie. Market value is our model's estimate of what the same job would cost on today's results.

Kévin Vauquelin vs Laurence Pithie

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