Who earns what in sport
Athlete salaries and team budgets, sport by sport. Every reported figure links to its source, and anything we estimate is labelled and shown with a range.
Sports
Each sport has its own pages. A sport appears here once it has data.
Basketball
Every EuroLeague player's salary, reported or estimated, and club budgets for 18 more European leagues and competitions.
Cycling
Pro cycling salaries, contracts and agents, on our sister site How to Turn Pro.
Go to How to Turn Pro ↗Basketball: highest paid
Rankings →| # | Player | Club | Salary | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vasilije MicicHapoel TA | Hapoel TA | €5.6M€4.79M–6MReported | Reported |
| 2 | Kendrick NunnPanathinaikos | Panathinaikos | €4.5MReported | Reported |
| 3 | Nigel Hayes-DavisPanathinaikos | Panathinaikos | €4M€3.85M–5MReported | Reported |
| 4 | Guerschon YabuselePanathinaikos | Panathinaikos | €4M€4M–4.27MReported | Reported |
| 5 | Sasha VezenkovOlympiacos | Olympiacos | €3.7M€3.5M–3.7MReported | Reported |
Net per season. Reported = published by a named outlet (sources on the player page). Estimate = our model, shown with its ±30% range.
Basketball: biggest payrolls
Budgets →Net player payroll 2026-27, EuroLeague. Where outlets disagree, the bar shows the range.
Reported a named outlet published it
Figure, outlet, date and link for every source. One source only says single source; when sources disagree you see the range and all of them.
Estimate nobody published it
Our model, always labelled and shown with a range, never presented as a fact. The method is public for each sport. Methodology.