Kaliese Carter prize money
Kaliese Carter has been paid $297,500 by the Diamond League, which ranks 49th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 42 paid finishes in the women's 400 m hurdles and women's 400 m, 21 of them wins.
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
The 42 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $297,500 is 42 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.3% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Kaliese Carter
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 400 m hurdles | 40 | 21 | 2010 to 2016 | $292,000 |
| Women's 400 m | 2 | - | 2012 to 2014 | $5,500 |
The women's 400 m hurdles has paid Kaliese Carter $292,000 of the $297,500, which is 98% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2010 to 2016, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7 | 4 | British Grand Prix | $54,000 |
| 2011 | 6 | 4 | Shanghai Golden Grand Prix | $52,000 |
| 2012 | 7 | 4 | Golden Gala | $56,000 |
| 2013 | 6 | - | DN Galan | $23,500 |
| 2014 | 8 | 6 | Prefontaine Classic | $67,500 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3 | Shanghai Golden Grand Prix | $33,000 |
| 2016 | 4 | - | Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix | $11,500 |
season running total
2014 is the biggest of them, $67,500 from eight starts. Every season from 2010 to 2016 paid her something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $297,500.
Around Kaliese Carter on the money list
Ranks 29 to 69
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | Pedro Pichardo | Men's triple jump | 17 | $370,500 |
| 30 | Barbora Špotáková | Women's javelin throw | 19 | $365,500 |
| 31 | Valerie Adams | Women's shot put | 30 | $361,500 |
| 32 | Daniel Ståhl | Men's discus throw | 13 | $355,750 |
| 33 | Jakob Ingebrigtsen | four disciplines | 19 | $348,000 |
| 34 | Chase Jackson | Women's shot put | 18 | $347,500 |
| 35 | Blessing Okagbare | three disciplines | 11 | $338,250 |
| 36 | Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce | two disciplines | 21 | $335,000 |
| 37 | Emmanuel Wanyonyi | two disciplines | 15 | $321,500 |
| 38 | Julien Alfred | two disciplines | 13 | $316,000 |
| 39 | Piotr Małachowski | Men's discus throw | 18 | $312,500 |
| 40 | Kirani James | Men's 400 m | 17 | $310,250 |
| 41 | Ryan Crouser | Men's shot put | 15 | $310,000 |
| 42 | Gong Lijiao | Women's shot put | 13 | $309,000 |
| 43 | Yaime Pérez | Women's discus throw | 8 | $307,500 |
| 44 | Conseslus Kipruto | two disciplines | 15 | $305,500 |
| 45 | Caster Semenya | three disciplines | 20 | $304,000 |
| 46 | Asbel Kiprop | four disciplines | 19 | $302,500 |
| 47 | Hellen Obiri | five disciplines | 13 | $301,000 |
| 48 | Sandi Morris | Women's pole vault | 12 | $300,500 |
| 49 | Kaliese Carter | two disciplines | 21 | $297,500 |
| 50 | Beatrice Chepkoech | three disciplines | 11 | $297,000 |
| 51 | Salwa Eid Naser | two disciplines | 13 | $296,500 |
| 52 | Katie Moon | Women's pole vault | 11 | $292,875 |
| 53 | Orlando Ortega | Men's 110 m hurdles | 11 | $287,500 |
| 54 | Kenny Bednarek | two disciplines | 13 | $286,500 |
| 55 | Allyson Felix | three disciplines | 19 | $283,250 |
| 56 | Jakub Vadlejch | Men's javelin throw | 9 | $281,750 |
| 57 | Shanieka Ricketts | Women's triple jump | 8 | $281,250 |
| 58 | Fred Kerley | three disciplines | 11 | $280,250 |
| 59 | Zuzana Hejnová | Women's 400 m hurdles | 16 | $272,000 |
| 60 | Dafne Schippers | two disciplines | 11 | $271,000 |
| 61 | Dalilah Muhammad | Women's 400 m hurdles | 10 | $270,500 |
| 62 | Sergey Shubenkov | Men's 110 m hurdles | 7 | $268,000 |
| 63 | Laura Muir | five disciplines | 11 | $266,750 |
| 64 | Yulimar Rojas | two disciplines | 13 | $266,000 |
| 65 | Miltiadis Tentoglou | Men's long jump | 12 | $263,500 |
| 66 | Christian Coleman | two disciplines | 10 | $263,000 |
| 67 | Olga Rypakova | Women's triple jump | 9 | $262,000 |
| 68 | Kristjan Čeh | Men's discus throw | 12 | $261,500 |
| 69 | Akani Simbine | Men's 100 m | 11 | $257,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Kaliese Carter is 49th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $297,500.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Kaliese Carter most
Shanghai Golden Grand Prix 2015 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 400 m hurdles, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Tiffany Williams, Cassandra Tate, Georganne Moline, Lashinda Demus, Kori Carter and Xia Xiao.
British Athletics Grand Prix 2015 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 400 m hurdles, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Cassandra Tate, Zuzana Hejnová, Eilidh Doyle, Denisa Rosolová, Kori Carter and Tiffany Williams.
Bislett Games 2015 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 400 m hurdles, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Georganne Moline, Zuzana Hejnová, Kemi Adekoya, Denisa Rosolová, Eilidh Doyle and Tiffany Williams.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Kaliese Carter won?
$297,500, which ranks 49th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 42 paid finishes between 2010 and 2016.
What is Kaliese Carter's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 1st in the 400 m hurdles at the 2015 Shanghai Golden Grand Prix. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 1st and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Kaliese Carter 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 win is worth the same in the women's 400 m hurdles 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.
How many Diamond League meetings has Kaliese Carter won?
21 of 42, worth $210,000 between them. She has not been paid at a Diamond League final.
Is this everything Kaliese Carter 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 Kaliese Carter is Sandi Morris on $300,500, and one below Beatrice Chepkoech on $297,000. Kaliese Carter is one of 158 Jamaica athletes athletics has paid, and Jamaica athletics prize money adds them up to $8,413,000 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's 400 m hurdles prize money and women's 400 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Kaliese Carter 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 800 m. Every meeting she has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix has its own page across every edition of it.