Sources

Every reported salary, budget and agency attribution, with its source and a quality tier: T1 official or major outlet on the record · T2 reputable outlet, single report · T3 indirect or unconfirmed.

Disputed figures

People we write about sometimes tell us, in public, that a figure here is wrong. Every one of those goes in this table, whether or not we agreed, and a link to the objection stays on the rider's page. A dispute on its own does not move a number: without a figure we can source there is nothing to move it to. If you are the rider, the team or the agent, the correction form is faster and we credit the correction.

Reported salaries (anchors)

Where reports disagree we use the most recent Gazzetta figure; the spread across outlets is typically ±15%.

Team budgets 2026

ProTeam budgets 2026

Second-division budgets are rarely reported. Where no outlet has printed a figure our estimate is built from roster size, the sponsor's scale and the UCI ProTeam minimum wage, and marked T3 — treat the range as the real answer.

• T1 — Cyclingnews, 2026 men's WorldTour budgets total €663 million (UCI seminar figures: avg €33.1M, median €28M, 87% sponsorship).
• T1 — Team Visma | Lease a Bike 2024 accounts (revenue €52M, employee costs €32.9M), via Wielerflits/NOS.
• T2 — Gazzetta dello Sport team budget list, Jan 2026 (via tour-magazin.de).
• T2 — Cycling Weekly, team budgets, Jun 2026.
• T2 — Wielerkrant, jaarbudgetten van de wielerploegen, Aug 2026.
• T2 — Cyclingnews, Where do cycling's super-teams spend their millions?

Audited accounts (what teams actually file)

• T1 — Alpecin-Deceuninck (Wielerteam Ciclismo Mundial BV, Belgian registry, filed Jul 2026): turnover €25.7M in 2025 (2024 €24.6M, 2023 €22.0M), 28 FTE staff; riders are self-employed so their fees sit in "services", not payroll. Via Companyweb / Staatsbladmonitor.
• T1 — Visma | Lease a Bike (Yellow B Cycling BV, 2024): revenue €52M, employee costs €32.9M (riders are employees in NL), loss €6.1M. Via Money in Sport / Wielerflits. 2025 accounts expected Oct–Nov 2026.
• T1 — Movistar (Abarca Sports SL, 2024): revenue €20.4M, personnel €18.8M (92%, riders on payroll), loss €154k after a €4M buy-out fee for Carlos Rodríguez. Via 2Playbook.
• T1 — Picnic PostNL (SMS Cycling BV, 2024): revenue €11.7M, personnel €15.7M, operating loss €6.2M; €19.5M cumulative losses 2022–24. Via Money in Sport.
• T1 — Intermarché-Wanty (Continuum Sports Belgium BV, 2023): wages €9.7M of which staff €0.9M → ≈€8.8M for riders on ≈€14M revenue (≈63% incl. self-employed fees). Via INRNG / Companyweb.
• T2 — INEOS (Tour Racing Ltd) files abridged accounts with no turnover or staff costs; parent Ineos Racing Ltd lost £153M in 2024. Companies House.
• UCI seminar Dec 2025: "personnel expenses" 73% of 2026 budgets (a broader bucket than rider salaries: staff, social charges, bonuses, agents, insurance); competition 15%, general 6%, vehicles 3%.

Salary structure (UCI / CPA)

• T1 — UCI/CPA joint agreement: 2026 minimums frozen — WorldTour employed €44,150 (neo-pro €35,721), self-employed €72,404 (neo-pro €58,582); ProTeam employed €35,392, self-employed €58,043; Women's WorldTour employed €38,000. CPA, Velora.
• T1 — UCI 2024 figures via Cyclingnews: 18 teams' rider salaries €226.5M (avg €12.6M, median €11.2M, range €5.2M–€27.3M); ~70 riders over €1M; 43% employed / 57% self-employed. Millionaires and minimum wage.
• T1 — UCI 2026 average wage via Escape Collective (Jul 2026): employed riders mean €384k / median €216k; self-employed mean €654k / median €350k. Earlier years (Domestique): employed mean €300k in 2023, €366k in 2025. Money talks. Until 19 Oct 2026 this site labelled these averages as 2024 figures; the numbers were right, the year was not.
• T2 — Cyclingnews, Cycling's rich list (archetypes: Tour super-domestique ≈ €1M, big sprinter ≈ €1.5M, WT domestique ≈ €200k, elite neo-pro €150–500k).
• T2 — Agent commission 5–7.5% (Escape Collective, Who are the most powerful agents in pro cycling?).

Agency attributions

369 of 537 riders attributed. Per-rider source and confidence are on each rider page; the aggregate sources are:

• T1 — FirstCycling agency pages (71 agencies' published rosters, read 16 September 2026) — 341 riders.
• T1 — Agencies' own sites: SEG, LC Management, ISEA, THE·TEAM.
• T1 — UCI list of certified riders' agents (109 agents, 26 Aug 2025).
• T2 — Escape Collective, Daniel Benson (Substack), Wielerflits, Cyclingnews, Rouleur, bici.pro, cyclismactu — press reports naming an agent; listed on the rider page.

Prize money

• T1 — ProCyclingStats per-race "Prizemoney ranking" pages for all 2026 UCI WorldTour and ProSeries races run to 12 September 2026 (97 races, 75 with published prize lists), summed per rider. Later-season races (Il Lombardia, Guangxi, the October Italian classics) are added as they are raced.
• T1 — Distribution practice: prize money is pooled and split among riders and staff by each team's own rules — Cycling Weekly, How much prize money did Pogačar and his team win at the Tour (UAE: €832,750, 36% of the €2.3M fund, shared across eight riders and staff); ProCyclingUK, Tour de France 2026 prize money.

Contracts

• T1 — ProCyclingStats rider pages, contract end year, snapshot 22 September 2026.
• T1 — Team announcements for extensions, departures and retirements (178 riders carry a linked source on their page).

Something missing or wrong? Send a correction with a link; we update the page and credit you in the changelog.