Kayla White prize money
Kayla White has been paid $55,250 by the Diamond League, which ranks 281st of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from twelve paid finishes in the women's 200 m and women's 100 m, one of them a win.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Athletissima 2026 | 200 m | 1st | $20,000 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2026 | 200 m | 2nd | $12,000 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2026 | 200 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Herculis EBS 2026 | 200 m | 4th | $3,000 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2026 | 100 m | 8th | $1,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2023 | 200 m | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2023 | 200 m | 4th | $2,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2023 | 200 m | 6th | $2,000 |
| Meeting de Paris 2023 | 200 m | 5th | $1,250 |
| Herculis EBS 2023 | 200 m | 6th | $1,000 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2022 | 100 m | 6th | $1,000 |
| Athletissima 2019 | 100 m | 5th | $2,500 |
| All twelve | two disciplines | — | $55,250 |
The twelve paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $55,250 is twelve separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.1% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them.
The World Championships
What Kayla White did in Tokyo, 2025
Kayla White went to the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo on a relay and ran no individual final there. She ran on the United States team that won the women's 4 × 100 metres relay, $80,000 to the federation rather than to any one of the four. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
The Ultimate Championship
What Kayla White did in Budapest, 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 200 metres | 3rd | 21.93 | $40,000 |
The Ultimate Championship paid Kayla White $40,000 for one finish over three days, against $55,250 from twelve Diamond League starts between 2019 and 2026. She ran on the United States quartet that won the mixed 4 × 100 metres relay, $80,000 to the team rather than to any one of the four. The championship page holds all 28 events and what each one paid.
The World Athletics Relays
What Kayla White ran on
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | TEAM PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 4 × 100 metres relay | 4th | 42.38 | $8,000 |
The World Relays have paid $8,000 for the one team Kayla White ran on in Guangzhou 2025, and all of it went to the United States rather than to the four who ran. The $55,250 at the top of this page is what the Diamond League paid her. This is what World Athletics paid a country, and the two are not added together anywhere on the site. No team she ran on won its final, and the ladder paid the teams anyway: it reaches all eight teams in a final, $40,000 for a title down to $2,000 for 8th, so reaching one is the run that pays. She ran alongside Mikiah Brisco, Caisja Chandler and Twanisha Terry, and the Diamond League has paid every one of them too. The World Relays page holds all 12 finals across two championships and the $1,067,000 they paid out.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Kayla White
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 200 m | 9 | 1 | 2023 to 2026 | $50,750 |
| Women's 100 m | 3 | — | 2019 to 2026 | $4,500 |
The women's 200 m has paid Kayla White $50,750 of the $55,250, which is 92% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2019 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | — | Athletissima | $2,500 |
| 2020 | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | — | — | — | — |
| 2022 | 1 | — | Kamila Skolimowska Memorial | $1,000 |
| 2023 | 5 | — | Weltklasse Zürich | $9,750 |
| 2024 | — | — | — | — |
| 2025 | — | — | — | — |
| 2026 | 5 | 1 | Athletissima | $42,000 |
season running total
2026 is the biggest of them, $42,000 from five starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Kayla White in 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2025, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $55,250.
Around Kayla White on the money list
Ranks 261 to 301
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 261 | Yohan Blake | Men's 100 m | 1 | $58,250 |
| 262 | Addison Wiley | three disciplines | 1 | $58,000 |
| 263 | Amos Serem | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 1 | $57,250 |
| 264 | Jason Joseph | Men's 110 m hurdles | 1 | $57,000 |
| 265 | Saly Sarr | Women's triple jump | 2 | $57,000 |
| 266 | Oliver Hoare | two disciplines | 1 | $56,750 |
| 267 | Piotr Lisek | Men's pole vault | 2 | $56,625 |
| 268 | Bayapo Ndori | Men's 400 m | 1 | $56,500 |
| 269 | Lázaro Martínez | Men's triple jump | 2 | $56,500 |
| 270 | Zharnel Hughes | two disciplines | — | $56,500 |
| 271 | Charles Dobson | two disciplines | 2 | $56,250 |
| 272 | Hirut Meshesha | five disciplines | 2 | $56,250 |
| 273 | Ilya Ivanyuk | Men's high jump | 2 | $56,250 |
| 274 | Megan Tapper | Women's 100 m hurdles | 1 | $56,250 |
| 275 | Josh Kerr | two disciplines | 2 | $56,000 |
| 276 | Mohamed Katir | three disciplines | 3 | $56,000 |
| 277 | Romaine Beckford | Men's high jump | — | $56,000 |
| 278 | Slimane Moula | Men's 800 m | 3 | $56,000 |
| 279 | Nicholas Kimeli | two disciplines | 1 | $55,750 |
| 280 | Holly Bradshaw | Women's pole vault | — | $55,250 |
| 281 | Kayla White | two disciplines | 1 | $55,250 |
| 282 | Wayne Pinnock | Men's long jump | 2 | $55,000 |
| 283 | Ben Broeders | Men's pole vault | 1 | $54,500 |
| 284 | Cole Hocker | three disciplines | 1 | $54,500 |
| 285 | Gabriel Tual | two disciplines | — | $54,500 |
| 286 | Kristin Pudenz | Women's discus throw | — | $54,500 |
| 287 | Gong Lijao | Women's shot put | 1 | $54,000 |
| 288 | Ja'Kobe Tharp | Men's 110 m hurdles | 2 | $54,000 |
| 289 | Emily Grove | Women's pole vault | 1 | $53,750 |
| 290 | Nia Ali | Women's 100 m hurdles | 1 | $53,750 |
| 291 | Brandon Starc | Men's high jump | 1 | $53,500 |
| 292 | Ejgayehu Taye | two disciplines | — | $53,500 |
| 293 | Shelby McEwen | Men's high jump | 2 | $53,375 |
| 294 | Sandra Elkasević | Women's discus throw | 2 | $53,250 |
| 295 | Sembo Almayew | two disciplines | 1 | $53,000 |
| 296 | Kimberly Williams | Women's triple jump | — | $52,750 |
| 297 | Lukas Weißhaidinger | Men's discus throw | — | $52,500 |
| 298 | Elaine Thompson | two disciplines | 2 | $52,000 |
| 299 | Habitam Alemu | three disciplines | — | $51,500 |
| 300 | Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu | three disciplines | 3 | $51,250 |
| 301 | Quanesha Burks | Women's long jump | 1 | $51,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Kayla White is 281st of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $55,250.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Kayla White most
Athletissima 2026 paid $20,000 for 1st in the 200 m, one of six in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Amy Hunt, Favour Ofili, Anavia Battle, Fabienne Hoenke and Léonie Pointet.
AG Memorial Van Damme 2026 paid $12,000 for 2nd in the 200 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Amy Hunt, Anavia Battle, Cambrea Sturgis, Audrey Leduc, Success Eduan and Jenna Prandini.
Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2026 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 200 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Audrey Leduc, Shaunae Miller-Uibo, McKenzie Long, Torrie Lewis, Léonie Pointet and Ajla Del Ponte.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Kayla White won?
$55,250, which ranks 281st of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from twelve paid finishes between 2019 and 2026.
What is Kayla White's biggest Diamond League payday?
$20,000, for finishing 1st in the Diamond+ 200 m at the 2026 Athletissima. 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 Kayla White 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 200 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.
How many Diamond League meetings has Kayla White won?
One of twelve, worth $20,000 between them. Two of her appearances came at a final, which paid $14,000.
How much did Kayla White win at the Ultimate Championship?
$40,000, from one paid final at the 2026 championship in Budapest. World Athletics pays $150,000 for a win there, $75,000 for second and $40,000 for third, the same in all 26 individual events.
What did Kayla White's World Relays teams win?
$8,000, across one paid final in Guangzhou 2025. The relays pay a team rather than a runner, so the cheque goes to the federation and not to Kayla White or to any one of the four. A title pays $40,000 and the ladder reaches all eight teams in a final, down to $2,000 for 8th.
Is this everything Kayla White earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 104 meetings. The Ultimate Championship and World Relays 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 Kayla White is Holly Bradshaw on $55,250, and one below Wayne Pinnock on $55,000. Kayla White 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 200 m prize money and women's 100 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Kayla White has been paid in two of them. The biggest of the rest are women's 100 m hurdles, women's 800 m and women's 400 m. Every meeting she has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and Athletissima 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 4 × 100 metres relay page. Ultimate Championship prize money is the 2026 championship in Budapest, $10,000,000 over three days, and the full finals are on the women's 200 metres and mixed 4 × 100 metres relay pages. World Relays prize money is the Guangzhou 2025 and Gaborone 2026 championships, $1,087,000 put up across 12 finals that pay a team and never a runner, and the relay is on the women's 4 × 100 metres relay page.