Changelog

Every data change, with a date and, where a reader sent it, a credit. Corrections go to [email protected] or the correction form.

Every rider page now carries a season-by-season table from ProCyclingStats: team and level, PCS points, race days, wins and podiums, back to the junior years. Prize money generated is shown per season from 2022 (PCS per-race prize lists, WorldTour and ProSeries), with a five-year total and a new ranking of the biggest earners since 2022.
Method, About, Correct and Data pages are now fully translated in French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and German. Sources and Changelog stay in English.

All 540 WorldTour contracts re-checked against ProCyclingStats on 13 September. New: Alessandro Romele extends with XDS Astana to 2028; Artem Shmidt leaves INEOS for NSN (to 2029); Håkon Eiksund Øksnes leaves Uno-X for Drali-Repsol. End years added for 26 already-announced moves (De Lie to Tudor until 2030, Van Eetvelt to NSN until 2029, Milesi to Soudal until 2029…).
Soudal Quick-Step becomes Soudal Safety Jogger in 2027 — noted on the team page; the 2026 name stays until the season ends.

Every rider, team, agency, ranking and ProTeam page now exists in French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and German under /fr/, /it/, /es/, /nl/ and /de/, with a language switcher in the header and hreflang links so search engines serve the right version. Numbers, names and sources are identical across languages; only the words change.
The methodology, sources, changelog and about pages remain in English for now (they quote sources verbatim); translated versions follow. Share cards stay in English.
Also fixed: the sitemap namespace (Google reported an error), and www.howtoturnpro.com now redirects to howtoturnpro.com.

Every rider on the 16 UCI ProTeams now has a page: Tudor, Cofidis, Pinarello Q36.5, TotalEnergies, Unibet Rose Rockets, Novo Nordisk, Flanders-Baloise, and the Spanish, Italian, Hungarian and American teams. Same method as the WorldTour (ProTeam model v0.1), with ProTeam budgets, floors built on the UCI ProTeam minimum (€35,392) and the tier-wide half of the blend run within the second division. Two reported salaries anchor it: Pidcock €4M, Alaphilippe €2M.
Headline: the second division is a different economy. 16 teams, ~€137M of budgets, an estimated €50M of rider wages — less than UAE and Visma together. Median rider €54k; 193 of 422 under €50k; 137 at their floor. Four riders over €1M (Pidcock, Alaphilippe, Aranburu, Izagirre); Tudor alone pays about a fifth of the tier's wages.
Prize money generated and estimated share received are computed for ProTeam riders too (same PCS per-race data). Agency data is not yet collected for ProTeams. Continental teams are not covered — there is no salary to estimate at that level, and no reliable roster source we are willing to publish from.
Also: INEOS Grenadiers is shown as Netcompany INEOS, following the team's renaming on ProCyclingStats.

New model column next to "generated": each race's team pot split equally among the team's starters after 15% to staff (PCS team prize totals + start lists, 97 races). Labelled Model; assumptions on the methodology page.
Headline: the helpers cash in, not the winners. Nils Politt (salary est. €573k) received ≈€129k; Domen Novak generated €600 and received ≈€33k, 20% of his salary; Visma neo-pro Tim Rex ≈€51k, 83% of his salary. Pogačar: €809k generated, ≈€131k received before any waiver.

Every rider and team page now shows prize money generated in 2026 (ProCyclingStats per-race prize lists, WorldTour + ProSeries, to 12 September) and its share of salary. Labelled "generated, not kept" because prize money is pooled and shared with team-mates and staff.
Headline: 540 riders generated €8.0M against €272M of salaries — under 3%; median rider 1% of salary; 485 of 527 below 5%. Pogačar: €809k generated vs €8.2M salary.
New rankings section and a methodology note on how prize money is actually distributed.

The flat 45% rider-wage share (UCI 2024 league average) is replaced by a share that rises with budget — 37% at €14M to 50% at €55M — matching the UCI's own per-team extremes (€27.3M of rider wages on a ~€52M budget; €5.2M on ~€14M). League total unchanged at ~€272M.
Effect: big-team estimates recover part of what v0.3 took away (McNulty €1.1M → €1.6M, Vine €0.9M → €1.2M, Lipowitz €0.9M → €1.0M); small-team leaders come down (Johannessen €1.7M → €1.4M, Scaroni €1.5M → €1.3M). Median €272k; 62 riders over €1M.
Sources page now lists the audited accounts we could find (Alpecin 2025 turnover €25.7M; Visma, Movistar, Picnic 2024; Intermarché 2023) and what they do and don't show about rider pay.

Reported salaries are now subtracted from each team's wage pool before the remaining riders are estimated, in both halves of the blend. Previously the league-wide half ignored a team's reported stars, so UAE and Red Bull overshot their pools by €4–5M.
Effect: unreported riders on anchor-heavy teams come down (McNulty €1.7M → €1.1M, Vine €1.3M → €0.9M, Lipowitz €1.5M → €0.9M); riders on teams with no reported salaries go up slightly. Every team's total now equals its pool within €0.4M. Median €294k, 59 riders over €1M.

Reader feedback on day one: experienced domestiques were priced far too low (Domen Novak €74k, Bert Van Lerberghe €90k, Vegard Stake Laengen €90k). Points-only allocation cannot see the value of a helper who never scores.
New floors scaled by team budget: €50k under 23, €80k second contract, €120k experienced domestique, €160k established pro (×0.77–1.33 by budget). Novak now €160k, Laengen €213k, Van Lerberghe €163k; 106 riders sit at their floor.
Riders under €100k fall from 106 to 48 (mostly first contracts). Top-end estimates move by less than 2% (the extra floor money comes proportionally from everyone above the floor). Median unchanged at €283k; mean €520k; 60 riders over €1M.
Design pass: team colours, flags, data bars, charts, share cards for every rider and team.

Wage floor of €90k for established pros (25+, ≥1,500 career PCS points); 29 estimates changed by less than 1%, one (Sven Erik Bystrøm) from €67k to €90k.
Agency column added to every rider; 32 agencies with a page.
Site launched with men's WorldTour 2026, data snapshot 9 September 2026.

First full estimate for 527 riders on 18 teams, calibrated to UCI 2024/2026 aggregates (mean €517k, median €283k, 63 riders over €1M).
Agency map from 71 FirstCycling agency rosters, agency sites and press: 370 of 538 riders attributed.
Contract map from ProCyclingStats, verified against team announcements for 60 riders (extensions, retirements, mid-season moves).