Matteo Jorgenson vs Sam Welsford: salary and market value

Matteo Jorgenson vs Sam Welsford

	Matteo Jorgenson	Sam Welsford
Salary 2026	€1M Press estimate	€1.3M Model
Market value 2026	€2.6M Model	€1.1M Model
Salary against market value	-62%	+23%
Team	Visma \| Lease a Bike	Netcompany INEOS
Role	second-tier leader	key climber / super-domestique
Age	27	30
Nationality	United States	Australia
Contract to	end of 2029 (announced Jul 2025)	end of 2028 (announced Dec 2025)
Prize money generated, 2026	€25k	€15k
Prize money received, 2026 Model	€13k	€5,956
PCS rank	#31	#254

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.

Sam Welsford earns more: €1.3M a year against €1M for Matteo Jorgenson, 33% more. Sam Welsford's figure is our model estimate; Matteo Jorgenson's is a press estimate. Matteo Jorgenson is younger: 27 against 30. Sam Welsford'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 23% above for Sam Welsford.

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Who earns more, Matteo Jorgenson or Sam Welsford?

Sam Welsford earns more: €1.3M a year against €1M for Matteo Jorgenson, 33% more.

Who has the higher market value, Matteo Jorgenson or Sam Welsford?

Matteo Jorgenson: €2.6M against €1.1M for Sam Welsford. Market value is our model's estimate of what the same job would cost on today's results.

Matteo Jorgenson vs Sam Welsford

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