The total world Tour budget for men reaches €570 million and the average rider's salary is up to €500,000

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The total world Tour budget for men reaches €570 million and the average rider's salary is up to €500,000
According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, the total budget for the men's World Tour between 2022 and 2025 increased by 33%, from 43,000 million euros to 57,000 million euros.

In the same period, the total budget of Women's WorldTour increased by 2 times to 7000 million euros.

The increase in the Men's World Tour from 2024 to the next season of 7,100 million euros is the biggest jump since 2021, from 18 million euros spread to 19 teams at the time rather than 37,900 teams in 2022 to 43,000 million euros in 2023 and 4 billion euros in 2023. 7,300 million euros, and finally last year has steadily increased to 49,900 million euros.  At Uci's ProSeries, run by teams such as Tudor and Israel Premier-Tech, the total budget has increased from 2022's 9900 million euros to 14900 million euros next season, following a similar trend with the WorldTour team.  

The Gazzetta Dello Sport Report comes following the annual UCI World Tour Seminar held on 11 May 25-26 in Nice. Ciro Scognamiglio, the Italian sports newspaper and lead cycling reporter, was able to see the figures exclusively, which are not publicly available. 

The increase in the budgets of some teams has caused the need for some kind of budget ceiling in professional cycling. The UCI has confirmed that the "Principles of Financial Fairness for Teams" are considered the iva a Working Group. With a total budget of 57,000 million euros, the average budget for the men's team's world tour increased to 3,200 million euros, an increase of 400 million euros from the previous year.

 

After the 2023 and 2024 seasons saw significant investment in the Men's World Tour from Lidl with Trek, Decathlon with Ag2R and, more recently, Red Bull with Bora-Hansgrohe, it is understood that 87% of the new high WorldTour is from sponsors.

In the latter case, we placed Primoş Rogliş's team in the best budget team in the world Tour Gazzetta reported in 2025 a budget of 5000 million euros, and along with the likes of the uae team Emirates, the best rider in the world and Tadej Pogağar, who received the highest payment, is currently riding. After his contract extension on 10 May, the world champion is reportedly paying a salary of 800 million euros.

Further investment from Chinese carbon products maker XDS Carbon-Tech in Astana・Kazakhstan has allowed the trend of sponsorship to continue until 2025 and sign 12 riders ahead of next season with a new budget. 

Gazzetta reports that the salary gap for Remco Evenepoel, Jonas Vingegaard, Mathieu van der Poel and Pogañar has increased compared to other Pelotons, while the average salary for pros on the men's World Tour has increased.

The average was reported in 2024 at 449,000 euros, but in 2025 it is set to be a new high of 500,000 euros. 

There was no renewal of the average salary of professionals at Women's WorldTour, but it was last reported that in 2024 it would be about 85,000 euros. 

However, with Demi Volarling's new move to fdj・Suez and the rapid growth of the female side of the sport, it may have increased significantly as the male average.

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