Salary by season
Reported
Base salary only: bonuses, prize money and personal sponsors come on top.
Reported figure. €4M base salary per year, as reported by Gazzetta dello Sport (UCI data) via Tour-Magazin (2026-06). Source ↗ Bonuses, image rights and sponsor income are not included. This figure is used as a fixed anchor in the model.
Career
Turned pro in 2013. 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: €615k.
| Season | Team | PCS pts | Wins | Prize money | Salary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Visma | Lease a Bike WorldTour | 1372 | 8 | €110k | €4M Reported |
| 2025 | Visma | Lease a Bike WorldTour | 1264 | 2 | €90k | €3.8M Reported |
| 2024 | Visma | Lease a Bike WorldTour | 1428 | 5 | €105k | €3.5M Reported |
| 2023 | Jumbo-Visma WorldTour | 2060 | 5 | €83k | €2.2M Reported |
| 2022 | Jumbo-Visma WorldTour | 2762 | 9 | €227k | €2.2M Reported |
| 2021 | Team Jumbo-Visma WorldTour | 2820 | 13 | n/a | €2.2M Reported |
| 2020 | Team Jumbo-Visma WorldTour | 1834 | 6 | n/a | n/a |
| 2019 | Team Jumbo-Visma WorldTour | 852 | 4 | n/a | n/a |
| 2018 | Vérandas Willems-Crelan ProTeam | 586 | 2 | n/a | n/a |
| 2017 | Vérandas Willems-Crelan ProTeam | 456 | 3 | n/a | n/a |
| 2016 | Crelan-Vastgoedservice Continental | 254 | 2 | n/a | n/a |
| 2015 | Vastgoedservice-Golden Palace Continental | 39 | — | n/a | n/a |
| 2014 | Vastgoedservice-Golden Palace Continental | 18 | — | n/a | n/a |
| 2013 | Telenet-Fidea Continental | 0 | — | 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 5 published figures for Wout van Aert, with the quote each rests on →
Sources
- €4M, from 2026 — Gazzetta dello Sport (UCI data) via Tour-Magazin, 2026-06 reported Cyclingnews Apr 2025: €3.8M base, career-long deal signed Sep 2024 did not raise it much from €3.5M Open
- Market value €2.8M — our model, v0.9 (22 Sep 2026). Method
- Contract — Open-ended contract "until the end of his career" (signed Sep 2024) - PCS lists no fixed end year. No retirement announced (Apr 2026: no decision yet). Open
- Agent — FirstCycling agency page
- ~500 W / 6.4 W/kg (Paris-Roubaix 2026) — Velo (Outside), Zach Nehr, 2026-04-14 Open
- 428 W (Giro d'Italia 2025 stage 20) — Escape Collective, Caley Fretz, 2025-06-03 Open
- 428 W (Giro 2025 stage 20) — WielerFlits, Koen Middendorp, 2025-06-03 Open
- Results, points and prize money — ProCyclingStats, 16 September 2026 Open · FirstCycling
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FAQ
How much does Wout van Aert earn?
Wout van Aert's base salary for 2026 is €4M a year, as reported in the press: about €333k a month or €77k 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. #6 of the 50 highest-paid cyclists in 2026 → Wout van Aert costs €2,915 per PCS point in 2026: 23 of the 35 riders whose salary has been published. What one point costs →
How long is Wout van Aert's contract?
no end year on record
Who is Wout van Aert's agent?
ISEA Sport Management (source: FirstCycling agency page).
What is Wout van Aert's net worth?
There is no reliable public figure for Wout van Aert's net worth, and this site does not estimate one. The documented part is income: about €17.9M in base salary from 2021 to 2026, before tax. He has also generated €615k in prize money since 2022, which is paid to the team and shared.