Tao Geoghegan Hart, speaking ahead of the 2025 season, emphasized the significant financial growth in professional cycling, highlighting the existence of athletes earning substantial salaries. In 2024, men’s WorldTour teams collectively spent €226.5 million on salaries, with average salaries now at €501,000. The median team budget has significantly increased, from €18 million in 2019 to €25 million. While reforms are being discussed, Geoghegan Hart reminds us that professional cycling's financial landscape offers more support than many other endurance sports.
I have friends in many different endurance sports, and there's not 1,000 people making a very good living [from those sports], but in cycling there are. And it's easy to forget that.
The median among men's WorldTour teams in 2024 was €25m, up from €18m in 2019 - and the average male rider salary, according to the UCI's official figures... stands at €501,000.
One team, thought to be UAE Team Emirates XRG, had an outlay of €27.3m on salaries, and at the bottom end of the scale... total salaries amounted to €5.2m.
In 2025, several superstars improved their contracts substantially: Cyclingnews has been able to confirm that Tadej Pogačar's wage has grown.
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