Van den Berg vs Jorgenson: salary and market value

Marijn van den Berg vs Matteo Jorgenson

	Marijn van den Berg	Matteo Jorgenson
Salary 2026	€850k Model	€1M Press estimate
Market value 2026	€903k Model	€2.6M Model
Salary against market value	-6%	-62%
Team	EF Education-EasyPost	Visma \| Lease a Bike
Role	key climber / super-domestique	second-tier leader
Age	27	27
Nationality	Netherlands	United States
Contract to	end of 2028	end of 2029 (announced Jul 2025)
Prize money generated, 2026	€3,798	€25k
Prize money received, 2026 Model	€4,280	€13k
PCS rank	#273	#31

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.

Matteo Jorgenson earns more: €1M a year against €850k for Marijn van den Berg, 18% more. Matteo Jorgenson's figure is a press estimate; Marijn van den Berg's is our model estimate. Both are 27. Marijn van den Berg's contract runs out earlier, at the end of 2028; Matteo Jorgenson's runs to the end of 2029. Matteo Jorgenson has the larger gap between salary and market value: his salary is 62% below his market value, against 6% below for Marijn van den Berg.

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Who earns more, Marijn van den Berg or Matteo Jorgenson?

Matteo Jorgenson earns more: €1M a year against €850k for Marijn van den Berg, 18% more.

Who has the higher market value, Marijn van den Berg or Matteo Jorgenson?

Matteo Jorgenson: €2.6M against €903k for Marijn van den Berg. Market value is our model's estimate of what the same job would cost on today's results.

Marijn van den Berg vs Matteo Jorgenson

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