Cory McGee prize money
Cory McGee has been paid $12,500 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1450th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from eight paid finishes in the women's 1500 m and women's mile, the best of them 2nd.
The Diamond League pays by finishing place and nothing else. A published card sets what first through eighth is worth, the same figure in every discipline at that meeting, and ninth pays nothing.
Every payment
Where she finished, and what the card paid for it
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bauhausgalan 2024 | 1500 m | 8th | $500 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2024 | 1500 m | 14th | - |
| Meeting de Paris 2024 | 1500 m | 13th | - |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2024 | 1500 m | 13th | - |
| Bislett Games 2023 | Mile | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2023 | 1500 m | 5th | $1,250 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2023 | 1500 m | 8th | $500 |
| Doha Diamond League 2023 | 1500 m | 10th | - |
| Memorial Van Damme 2023 | 1500 m | 14th | - |
| Prefontaine Classic 2023 | 1500 m | 10th | - |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2022 | 1500 m | 5th | $1,250 |
| Herculis 2022 | 1500 m | 5th | $1,250 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2022 | 1500 m | 8th | $1,000 |
| Birmingham Diamond League 2022 | 1500 m | 7th | $750 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2022 | 1500 m | 9th | - |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2022 | 1500 m | 9th | - |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2022 | 1500 m | 10th | - |
| Herculis EBS 2021 | 1500 m | 11th | - |
| All 18 | two disciplines | - | $12,500 |
The eight paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $12,500 is eight separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.01% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. Ten of the 18 starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Cory McGee
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 1500 m | 17 | - | 2021 to 2024 | $6,500 |
| Women's mile | 1 | - | 2023 | $6,000 |
The women's 1500 m has paid Cory McGee $6,500 of the $12,500, which is 52% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2021 to 2024, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | - | Herculis EBS | - |
| 2022 | 7 | - | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | $4,250 |
| 2023 | 6 | - | Bislett Games | $7,750 |
| 2024 | 4 | - | Bauhausgalan | $500 |
season running total
2023 is the biggest of them, $7,750 from six starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Cory McGee in 2021, so that column stands at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $12,500.
Around Cory McGee on the money list
Ranks 1430 to 1470
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1430 | Linus Kipwambok Chumba | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 1 | $13,000 |
| 1431 | Margaret Wangari Muriuki | two disciplines | - | $13,000 |
| 1432 | Marta Pérez | two disciplines | - | $13,000 |
| 1433 | Pamela Dutkiewicz | Women's 100 m hurdles | 1 | $13,000 |
| 1434 | Phylicia George | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $13,000 |
| 1435 | Renny Quow | Men's 400 m | - | $13,000 |
| 1436 | Stacey-Ann Williams | Women's 400 m | - | $13,000 |
| 1437 | Vincent Ciattei | two disciplines | - | $13,000 |
| 1438 | Xiongfeng Su | Men's long jump | - | $13,000 |
| 1439 | Yuneysi Santiusti | Women's 800 m | - | $13,000 |
| 1440 | Xingjuan Zheng | Women's high jump | - | $12,833 |
| 1441 | Aminatou Seyni | two disciplines | - | $12,750 |
| 1442 | Iryna Zhuk | Women's pole vault | - | $12,750 |
| 1443 | Joshua Hartmann | two disciplines | - | $12,750 |
| 1444 | Przemysław Czerwiński | Men's pole vault | - | $12,750 |
| 1445 | Mathew Sawe | Men's high jump | - | $12,667 |
| 1446 | Damiel Dossevi | Men's pole vault | - | $12,583 |
| 1447 | Ahmed Bader Magour | Men's javelin throw | - | $12,500 |
| 1448 | Antoine Gakeme | two disciplines | - | $12,500 |
| 1449 | Christania Williams | Women's 100 m | - | $12,500 |
| 1450 | Cory McGee | two disciplines | - | $12,500 |
| 1451 | Emebet Anteneh | two disciplines | - | $12,500 |
| 1452 | Franck Elemba | Men's shot put | - | $12,500 |
| 1453 | Hind Dehiba Chahyd | two disciplines | - | $12,500 |
| 1454 | Huang Bokai | Men's pole vault | - | $12,500 |
| 1455 | Jaydon Hibbert | Men's triple jump | - | $12,500 |
| 1456 | Katie Mackey | two disciplines | 1 | $12,500 |
| 1457 | Kethobogile Haingura | two disciplines | - | $12,500 |
| 1458 | Lachlan Kennedy | Men's 100 m | - | $12,500 |
| 1459 | Misleydis González | Women's shot put | - | $12,500 |
| 1460 | Rachel Buciarski | Women's javelin throw | - | $12,500 |
| 1461 | Robert Farken | two disciplines | - | $12,500 |
| 1462 | Sule Utura | Women's 5000 m | - | $12,500 |
| 1463 | Verena Sailer | Women's 100 m | - | $12,500 |
| 1464 | Yaroslav Rybakov | Men's high jump | - | $12,500 |
| 1465 | Annik Kälin | two disciplines | - | $12,000 |
| 1466 | Bram Som | Men's 800 m | - | $12,000 |
| 1467 | Danil Lysenko | Men's high jump | 2 | $12,000 |
| 1468 | Darvis Patton | two disciplines | - | $12,000 |
| 1469 | Emily Mackay | two disciplines | - | $12,000 |
| 1470 | Fatih Avan | Men's javelin throw | - | $12,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Cory McGee is 1450th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $12,500.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Cory McGee most
Bislett Games 2023 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the mile, one of thirteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Jessica Hull, Nikki Hiltz, Worknesh Mesele, Linden Hall, Hirut Meshesha and Winnie Nanyondo.
Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2023 paid $1,250 for 5th in the 1500 m, one of eleven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Linden Hall, Sarah Healy, Ludovica Cavalli, Adelle Tracey, Winnie Nanyondo and Claudia Bobocea.
Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2022 paid $1,250 for 5th in the 1500 m, one of fourteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Gaia Sabbatini, Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal, Federica Del Buono, Winnie Nanyondo, Helen Schlachtenhaufen and Hanna Klein.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Cory McGee won?
$12,500, which ranks 1450th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from eight paid finishes between 2021 and 2024.
What is Cory McGee's biggest Diamond League payday?
$6,000, for finishing 2nd in the mile at the 2023 Bislett Games. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 2nd and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Cory McGee gets paid?
Entirely by where she finishes. The series publishes one rate card a season and applies it to every discipline at every meeting, so a place is worth the same in the women's 1500 m as it is in the shot put on the same afternoon. Eight places are paid and ninth pays nothing. There is no bonus for a record and no share of a gate.
Has Cory McGee ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Ten times. The series pays the first eight and the fields run past twenty, so a ninth place is a Diamond League start that paid nothing at all. Those starts are in the result tables on this site either way.
Is this everything Cory McGee earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. It holds no championship prize money, no national federation payment, no appearance fee and no sponsorship. What it does hold is every dollar the series itself paid her, priced off the card it published.
Where to next
The rest of the Diamond League money
Diamond League prize money ranks all 3,683 athletes across the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out. One place above Cory McGee is Christania Williams on $12,500, and one below Emebet Anteneh on $12,500. Cory McGee is one of 659 United States athletes athletics has paid, and United States athletics prize money adds them up to $29,436,125 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's 1500 m prize money and women's mile prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Cory McGee has been paid in two of them. The biggest of the rest are women's 100 m, women's 100 m hurdles and women's 400 m. Every meeting she has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and Bauhausgalan has its own page across every edition of it.