Salary by season
Reported Model
Base salary only: bonuses, prize money and personal sponsors come on top.
Reported figure. €3M base salary per year, as reported by bici.PRO (Guercilena interview) / Daniel Benson / Cyclingnews (2025-09). Source ↗ Bonuses, image rights and sponsor income are not included. This figure is used as a fixed anchor in the model. 3 published figures for this rider ↓
Career
Turned pro in 2021. 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: €461k.
| Season | Team | PCS pts | Wins | Prize money | Salary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Lidl-Trek WorldTour | 1010 | 2 | €195k | €3M Reported |
| 2025 | UAE Team Emirates-XRG WorldTour | 1414 | 8 | €99k | €2.2M Reported |
| 2024 | UAE Team Emirates WorldTour | 1236 | 4 | €48k | €1.4M Model |
| 2023 | UAE Team Emirates WorldTour | 882 | 3 | €62k | €1.1M Model |
| 2022 | UAE Team Emirates WorldTour | 971 | 1 | €56k | €1.1M Model |
| 2021 | UAE Team Emirates WorldTour | 97 | — | n/a | €88k Model |
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 3 published figures for Juan Ayuso, with the quote each rests on →
Sources
- €1M, from 2023 — Diario del Triatlón citing Marca, 2023-10 reported (estimate) Marca 2023 list, "around" €1M, pre-dates his later deals Open
- €3M, 2026–2030 — bici.PRO (Guercilena interview) / Daniel Benson / Cyclingnews, 2025-09 reported ~€3M a year for five years plus ~€10M paid to UAE to release him, ~€25M project, Lefevere claims the release cost at least €15M (Nieuwsblad, Jun 2026). At UAE ~€2.2M (Cyclingnews Apr 2025) Open
- €10M, 2025–2025 — Daniel Benson (Substack) / HLN, 2025-10 transfer fee ~€10M buyout paid to UAE Team Emirates Open
- Market value €2.8M — our model, v0.9 (22 Sep 2026). Method
- Contract to 2030 — announced 2025-09 Open
- Agent — domestiquecycling.com Open
- 450–460 W (TdF 2026 st.10) — IDLProCycling, David Bavin-Hobbs, 2026-07-15 Open
- 6.79 eW/kg (Tirreno-Adriatico 2025 st.6) — Lanterne Rouge, Kārlis Ozols, 2025-03-15 Open
- Results, points and prize money — ProCyclingStats, 16 September 2026 Open · FirstCycling
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Top earners at Lidl-Trek
Also with Giovanni Lombardi (independent)
All 1 riders →FAQ
How much does Juan Ayuso earn?
Juan Ayuso's base salary for 2026 is €3M a year, as reported in the press: about €250k a month or €58k 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. #9 of the 50 highest-paid cyclists in 2026 → Juan Ayuso costs €2,970 per PCS point in 2026: 24 of the 35 riders whose salary has been published. What one point costs →
How long is Juan Ayuso's contract?
Until the end of 2030, with Lidl-Trek.
Who is Juan Ayuso's agent?
Giovanni Lombardi (independent) (source: domestiquecycling.com).
What is Juan Ayuso's net worth?
There is no reliable public figure for Juan Ayuso's net worth, and this site does not estimate one. The documented part is income: about €8.8M in base salary from 2021 to 2026, before tax. He has also generated €461k in prize money since 2022, which is paid to the team and shared.