Jaida Ross prize money
Jaida Ross has been paid $18,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 636th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from eight paid finishes in the women's shot put, the best of them 3rd.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bislett Games 2026 | Shot put | 5th | $2,500 |
| Shanghai Diamond League 2026 | Shot put | 7th | $1,500 |
| Meeting de Paris 2026 | Shot put | 8th | $1,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2026 | Shot put | 8th | $1,000 |
| Bauhausgalan 2026 | Shot put | 9th | — |
| Prefontaine Classic 2025 | Shot put | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2025 | Shot put | 4th | $4,000 |
| Diamond League Shanghai 2025 | Shot put | 6th | $2,500 |
| Herculis EBS 2025 | Shot put | 7th | $1,500 |
| Xiamen Diamond League 2025 | Shot put | 10th | — |
| All ten | Women's shot put | — | $18,000 |
The eight paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $18,000 is eight separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.03% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them. Two of the ten starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Championships
What Jaida Ross did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's shot put | 8th | 19.01 | $5,000 |
The 2025 World Championships paid Jaida Ross $5,000 for one finish in Tokyo, against $18,000 from ten Diamond League starts between 2025 and 2026. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
Season by season
2025 to 2026, in the order it was won
season running total
2025 is the biggest of them, $12,000 from five starts. Every season from 2025 to 2026 paid her something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $18,000.
Around Jaida Ross on the money list
Ranks 616 to 656
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 616 | Luvo Manyonga | Men's long jump | — | $19,000 |
| 617 | Parker Wolfe | two disciplines | 1 | $19,000 |
| 618 | Robert Gregory | Men's 200 m | — | $19,000 |
| 619 | Lamara Distin | Women's high jump | — | $18,750 |
| 620 | Léa Sprunger | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $18,750 |
| 621 | Mekides Abebe | two disciplines | — | $18,750 |
| 622 | Zerfe Wondemagegn | two disciplines | — | $18,750 |
| 623 | Courtney Frerichs | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $18,500 |
| 624 | Tomáš Staněk | Men's shot put | — | $18,500 |
| 625 | Bethwell Birgen | four disciplines | — | $18,250 |
| 626 | Laviai Nielsen | Women's 400 m | — | $18,250 |
| 627 | Paweł Wojciechowski | Men's pole vault | — | $18,250 |
| 628 | Susan Ejore | Women's 1500 m | — | $18,250 |
| 629 | Timothé Mumenthaler | two disciplines | — | $18,250 |
| 630 | Worknesh Mesele | three disciplines | — | $18,250 |
| 631 | Ashley Spencer | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $18,000 |
| 632 | Crystal Emmanuel | two disciplines | — | $18,000 |
| 633 | Cyréna Samba-Mayela | Women's 100 m hurdles | — | $18,000 |
| 634 | Egide Ntakarutimana | two disciplines | — | $18,000 |
| 635 | Hobbs Kessler | four disciplines | — | $18,000 |
| 636 | Jaida Ross | Women's shot put | — | $18,000 |
| 637 | McKenzie Long | two disciplines | — | $18,000 |
| 638 | Roxana Gómez | Women's 400 m | — | $18,000 |
| 639 | Tsigie Gebreselama | two disciplines | 1 | $18,000 |
| 640 | Margaret Akidor | two disciplines | 1 | $17,750 |
| 641 | Shafiqua Maloney | two disciplines | — | $17,750 |
| 642 | Wilhem Belocian | Men's 110 m hurdles | — | $17,750 |
| 643 | Winny Chebet | Women's 1500 m | — | $17,750 |
| 644 | Geordie Beamish | four disciplines | — | $17,500 |
| 645 | Kahmari Montgomery | Men's 400 m | — | $17,500 |
| 646 | Karl Bebendorf | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 1 | $17,500 |
| 647 | Phyllis Francis | two disciplines | — | $17,500 |
| 648 | Zaynab Dosso | Women's 100 m | — | $17,500 |
| 649 | Ajla Del Ponte | two disciplines | — | $17,250 |
| 650 | Ida Karstoft | Women's 200 m | 1 | $17,250 |
| 651 | Muktar Edris | two disciplines | 1 | $17,250 |
| 652 | Lia Apostolovski | Women's high jump | — | $17,125 |
| 653 | Anete Sietiņa | Women's javelin throw | — | $17,000 |
| 654 | Filippo Randazzo | Men's long jump | 1 | $17,000 |
| 655 | Fotyen Tesfay | two disciplines | — | $17,000 |
| 656 | Ludvy Vaillant | Men's 400 m hurdles | — | $17,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Jaida Ross is 636th of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $18,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Jaida Ross most
Prefontaine Classic 2025 paid $4,000 for 3rd in the shot put, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Maddi Wesche, Jessica Schilder, Maggie Ewen, Fanny Roos, Gong Lijiao and Yemisi Ogunleye.
Weltklasse Zürich 2025 paid $4,000 for 4th in the shot put, one of seven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Fanny Roos, Maggie Ewen, Miryam Mazenauer, Jessica Schilder, Chase Jackson and Sarah Mitton.
Bislett Games 2026 paid $2,500 for 5th in the shot put, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Danniel Thomas-Dodd, Fanny Roos, Maggie Ewen, Chase Jackson, Jessica Schilder and Sarah Mitton.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Jaida Ross won?
$18,000, which ranks 636th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from eight paid finishes between 2025 and 2026.
What is Jaida Ross's biggest Diamond League payday?
$4,000, for finishing 3rd in the shot put at the 2025 Prefontaine Classic. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 3rd and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Jaida Ross 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 shot put 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 Jaida Ross ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Two 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. She are in the result tables on this site either way.
How much did Jaida Ross win at the 2025 World Championships?
$5,000, from one paid final in Tokyo. The championships pay eight places in every event, $70,000 for a title down to $5,000 for 8th.
Is this everything Jaida Ross earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 104 meetings. The World Championships money above is separate money from a separate payer, and none of it is added together here. It holds 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 2,112 athletes across the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out. One place above Jaida Ross is Hobbs Kessler on $18,000, and one below McKenzie Long on $18,000. Jaida Ross is one of 352 United States athletes athletics has paid, and United States athletics prize money adds them up to $16,292,792 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's shot put prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Jaida Ross has been paid in one of them. The biggest of the rest are women's 100 m, women's 100 m hurdles and women's 800 m. Every meeting she has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and Bislett Games has its own page across every edition of it. Away from the series, World Championships prize money is Tokyo 2025, $8,498,000 paid eight places deep in every event, and the full final is on the women's shot put page.