Novlene Williams-Mills prize money
Novlene Williams-Mills has been paid $185,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 126th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 40 paid finishes in the women's 400 m, seven 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 40 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $185,000 is 40 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.2% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them.
Season by season
2010 to 2017, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7 | - | Bislett Games | $22,000 |
| 2011 | 5 | - | Memorial van Damme | $20,000 |
| 2012 | 3 | 1 | Shanghai Golden Grand Prix | $20,000 |
| 2013 | 4 | - | British Grand Prix | $12,000 |
| 2014 | 7 | 4 | Shanghai Golden Grand Prix | $52,000 |
| 2015 | 4 | - | Athletissima | $10,500 |
| 2016 | 3 | 1 | Bauhausgalan | $17,000 |
| 2017 | 7 | 1 | Meeting de Paris | $31,500 |
season running total
2014 is the biggest of them, $52,000 from seven starts. Every season from 2010 to 2017 paid her something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $185,000.
Around Novlene Williams-Mills on the money list
Ranks 106 to 146
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 106 | Tero Pitkämäki | Men's javelin throw | 10 | $202,000 |
| 107 | Haruka Kitaguchi | Women's javelin throw | 11 | $199,500 |
| 108 | Faith Cherotich | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 8 | $198,000 |
| 109 | Nina Kennedy | Women's pole vault | 11 | $197,500 |
| 110 | Winfred Yavi | two disciplines | 8 | $197,500 |
| 111 | Ajeé Wilson | Women's 800 m | 6 | $197,250 |
| 112 | Sofia Assefa | two disciplines | 4 | $196,000 |
| 113 | Gianmarco Tamberi | Men's high jump | 6 | $195,958 |
| 114 | Stephenie Ann McPherson | two disciplines | 4 | $194,750 |
| 115 | Mercy Cherono | five disciplines | 9 | $194,500 |
| 116 | Gerd Kanter | Men's discus throw | 9 | $194,000 |
| 117 | Bohdan Bondarenko | Men's high jump | 12 | $193,583 |
| 118 | Freweyni Hailu | five disciplines | 7 | $193,000 |
| 119 | Audrey Werro | two disciplines | 7 | $191,500 |
| 120 | Rai Benjamin | four disciplines | 8 | $190,250 |
| 121 | Carmelita Jeter | two disciplines | 13 | $189,000 |
| 122 | Milcah Chemos | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 16 | $189,000 |
| 123 | Shara Proctor | Women's long jump | 4 | $187,000 |
| 124 | Michelle Carter | Women's shot put | 3 | $186,500 |
| 125 | Blanka Vlašić | Women's high jump | 14 | $185,500 |
| 126 | Novlene Williams-Mills | Women's 400 m | 7 | $185,000 |
| 127 | Luvo Manyonga | Men's long jump | 8 | $184,500 |
| 128 | Leyanis Pérez | Women's triple jump | 9 | $183,250 |
| 129 | Olha Saladukha | Women's triple jump | 6 | $183,000 |
| 130 | Vítězslav Veselý | Men's javelin throw | 8 | $183,000 |
| 131 | Ferguson Rotich | two disciplines | 5 | $181,750 |
| 132 | Bershawn Jackson | two disciplines | 9 | $181,500 |
| 133 | Emmanuel Korir | two disciplines | 6 | $181,500 |
| 134 | Janieve Russell | Women's 400 m hurdles | 3 | $180,500 |
| 135 | Beatrice Chebet | three disciplines | 11 | $180,250 |
| 136 | Christina Obergföll | Women's javelin throw | 12 | $179,000 |
| 137 | Fedrick Dacres | Men's discus throw | 6 | $178,750 |
| 138 | Tianna Bartoletta | two disciplines | 8 | $177,750 |
| 139 | Larissa Iapichino | Women's long jump | 6 | $177,500 |
| 140 | Sally Pearson | Women's 100 m hurdles | 7 | $172,500 |
| 141 | Usain Bolt | two disciplines | 16 | $172,000 |
| 142 | Andriy Protsenko | Men's high jump | 3 | $171,250 |
| 143 | Emmanouil Karalis | Men's pole vault | 3 | $170,875 |
| 144 | Keely Hodgkinson | two disciplines | 9 | $170,500 |
| 145 | Marcin Lewandowski | four disciplines | 2 | $170,500 |
| 146 | Sarah Mitton | Women's shot put | 3 | $170,250 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Novlene Williams-Mills is 126th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $185,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Novlene Williams-Mills most
Meeting de Paris 2017 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 400 m, one of seven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Courtney Okolo, Shericka Jackson, Lydia Jele, Floria Gueï, Olha Zemlyak and Déborah Sananes.
Bauhausgalan 2016 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 400 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Anyika Onuora, Libania Grenot, Seren Bundy-Davies, Laviai Nielsen, Małgorzata Hołub-Kowalik and Matilda Hellqvist.
Shanghai Golden Grand Prix 2014 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 400 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Amantle Montsho, Stephenie Ann McPherson, Francena McCorory, Allyson Felix, Natasha Hastings and Kaliese Carter.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Novlene Williams-Mills won?
$185,000, which ranks 126th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 40 paid finishes between 2010 and 2017.
What is Novlene Williams-Mills's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 1st in the 400 m at the 2017 Meeting de Paris. 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 Novlene Williams-Mills 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 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 Novlene Williams-Mills won?
Seven of 40, worth $70,000 between them. One of her appearance came at a final, which paid $4,000.
Is this everything Novlene Williams-Mills 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 Novlene Williams-Mills is Blanka Vlašić on $185,500, and one below Luvo Manyonga on $184,500. Novlene Williams-Mills 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 prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Novlene Williams-Mills 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 Meeting de Paris has its own page across every edition of it.