Salary by season
Reported Model
Base salary only: bonuses, prize money and personal sponsors come on top.
Reported figure. €2.5M base salary per year, as reported by The Portugal Post citing sources close to the talks (2025-11). Source ↗ Bonuses, image rights and sponsor income are not included. This figure is used as a fixed anchor in the model. 2 published figures for this rider ↓
Career
Turned pro in 2017. Points and wins per season from ProCyclingStats. Prize money is what the rider generated at WorldTour and ProSeries races (from 2022) — pooled with the team, not kept. Generated since 2022: €546k.
| Season | Team | PCS pts | Wins | Prize money | Salary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | UAE Team Emirates-XRG WorldTour | 619 | — | €47k | €2.5M Reported |
| 2025 | UAE Team Emirates-XRG WorldTour | 2260 | 10 | €185k | €2.7M Reported |
| 2024 | UAE Team Emirates WorldTour | 1100 | 2 | €105k | €1.9M Model |
| 2023 | UAE Team Emirates WorldTour | 1478 | 2 | €157k | €2M Model |
| 2022 | UAE Team Emirates WorldTour | 1014 | 3 | €52k | €1.4M Model |
| 2021 | Deceuninck-Quick Step WorldTour | 1730 | 6 | n/a | €680k Model |
| 2020 | Deceuninck-Quick Step WorldTour | 865 | — | n/a | n/a |
| 2019 | Hagens Berman Axeon ProTeam | 119 | — | n/a | n/a |
| 2018 | Hagens Berman Axeon ProTeam | 8 | — | n/a | n/a |
| 2017 | Unieuro Trevigiani-Hemus 1896 Continental | 2 | — | n/a | n/a |
Prize money before 2022 was not collected. Salary estimates cover WorldTeam seasons from 2021 (season model v0.1 — that year's budgets, reported salaries and rosters; wider error than 2026, see Salaries by season). ProTeam seasons before 2026 are not modelled.
Reported power
Numbers published by the press. We never measure power ourselves.
All 13 published figures for João Almeida, with the quote each rests on →
Sources
- €2.5M, 2026–2028 — The Portugal Post citing sources close to the talks, 2025-11 reported €2.5M a year on the extension to 2028 announced Jul 2025. Cyclingnews Apr 2025 had ~€2.7M "bonus-heavy", A Bola ~€2M before the renewal Open
- €2M, 2025–2025 — A Bola (Edite Dias), citing specialist media, 2025-07 press estimate About €2M gross a year before his July 2025 renewal. The Cyclingnews rich list of April 2025, which our 2025 season uses, put him at €2.7M Open
- Market value €3.2M — our model, v0.9 (22 Sep 2026). Method
- Contract to 2028 — announced 2025-11 Open
- Agent — FirstCycling agency page
- ~6.5 W/kg (~410 W) (Vuelta 2025 st.13) — Velo, Zach Nehr, 2025-09-09 Open
- 6.72 eW/kg (Vuelta 2025 st.9) — Lanterne Rouge, Kārlis Ozols, 2025-08-31 Open
- 6.88 eW/kg (Tour de Suisse 2025 st.8 ITT) — Lanterne Rouge, Kārlis Ozols, 2025-06-22 Open
- Results, points and prize money — ProCyclingStats, 16 September 2026 Open · FirstCycling
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Top earners at UAE Team Emirates-XRG
FAQ
How much does João Almeida earn?
João Almeida's base salary for 2026 is €2.5M a year, as reported in the press: about €208k a month or €48k a week, before tax. Bonuses, prize money and personal sponsors are not included.
How much do pro cyclists earn? — medians, minimums and pay by job on one page. #19 of the 50 highest-paid cyclists in 2026 → João Almeida costs €4,039 per PCS point in 2026: 28 of the 35 riders whose salary has been published. What one point costs →
How long is João Almeida's contract?
Until the end of 2028, with UAE Team Emirates-XRG.
Who is João Almeida's agent?
Corso Sports Marketing (source: FirstCycling agency page).
What is João Almeida's net worth?
There is no reliable public figure for João Almeida's net worth, and this site does not estimate one. The documented part is income: about €11.2M in base salary from 2021 to 2026, before tax. He has also generated €546k in prize money since 2022, which is paid to the team and shared.