Tajay Gayle prize money
Tajay Gayle has been paid $160,250 by the Diamond League, which ranks 162nd of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 24 paid finishes in the men's long jump, four 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 he finished, and what the card paid for it
The 24 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $160,250 is 24 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.1% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. Two of the 26 starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Championships
What Tajay Gayle did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's long jump | 2nd | 8.34 m | $35,000 |
The 2025 World Championships paid Tajay Gayle $35,000 for one finish in Tokyo, against $160,250 from 26 Diamond League starts between 2018 and 2026. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
The Ultimate Championship
What Tajay Gayle did in Budapest, 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's long jump | 5th | 7.90 m | - |
Tajay Gayle stood in one Ultimate Championship final in Budapest and finished outside the money. World Athletics pays the first three in each event, $150,000, $75,000 and $40,000, and publishes no rate below third, so there is no figure to put against where he finished. The championship page holds all 28 events and what each one paid.
The World Indoor Championships
What Tajay Gayle did indoors
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's long jump | 7th | 8.12 | - |
| Men's long jump | 10th | 7.83 m | - |
Tajay Gayle stood in two World Indoor Championships finals and finished outside the money. The championships pay six places, $40,000 for a title down to $4,000 for 6th, and nothing at all below that. The indoor championships page holds all 53 finals across two editions and the $4,632,000 they paid out.
Season by season
2018 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2 | - | Weltklasse Zürich | $8,500 |
| 2019 | 4 | 1 | IAAF Diamond League Shanghai | $25,500 |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 3 | 1 | Bauhausgalan | $19,500 |
| 2022 | 1 | - | Herculis | $2,000 |
| 2023 | 3 | - | Prefontaine Classic | $19,000 |
| 2024 | 5 | 1 | AG Memorial Van Damme | $34,250 |
| 2025 | 2 | - | Athletissima | $5,000 |
| 2026 | 6 | 1 | AG Memorial Van Damme | $46,500 |
season running total
2026 is the biggest of them, $46,500 from six starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Tajay Gayle in 2020, so that column stands at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $160,250.
Around Tajay Gayle on the money list
Ranks 142 to 182
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 147 | Yuliya Levchenko | Women's high jump | 1 | $169,125 |
| 148 | Aaron Brown | two disciplines | 2 | $167,000 |
| 149 | Abeba Aregawi | four disciplines | 12 | $166,000 |
| 150 | David Rudisha | Men's 800 m | 14 | $166,000 |
| 151 | Neeraj Chopra | Men's javelin throw | 5 | $165,500 |
| 152 | Will Claye | two disciplines | 4 | $164,750 |
| 153 | Hansle Parchment | Men's 110 m hurdles | 5 | $164,000 |
| 154 | Selemon Barega | four disciplines | 5 | $163,750 |
| 155 | Eunice Sum | two disciplines | 11 | $162,500 |
| 156 | Andrius Gudžius | Men's discus throw | 2 | $162,000 |
| 157 | Marco Arop | two disciplines | 5 | $162,000 |
| 158 | Anderson Peters | Men's javelin throw | 7 | $161,000 |
| 159 | Konstantinos Filippidis | Men's pole vault | 6 | $161,000 |
| 160 | Julian Weber | Men's javelin throw | 4 | $160,750 |
| 161 | Norah Jeruto | two disciplines | 6 | $160,750 |
| 162 | Tajay Gayle | Men's long jump | 4 | $160,250 |
| 163 | Sunette Viljoen | Women's javelin throw | 4 | $160,000 |
| 164 | Nickel Ashmeade | two disciplines | 6 | $159,500 |
| 165 | Jasmine Camacho-Quinn | Women's 100 m hurdles | 12 | $158,500 |
| 166 | Mike Rodgers | Men's 100 m | 1 | $157,000 |
| 167 | Brianna Rollins-McNeal | Women's 100 m hurdles | 6 | $155,000 |
| 168 | Abderrahman Samba | three disciplines | 7 | $154,500 |
| 169 | Jessica Schilder | Women's shot put | 5 | $153,250 |
| 170 | Silke Spiegelburg | Women's pole vault | 8 | $153,250 |
| 171 | Ruth Beitia | Women's high jump | 7 | $153,000 |
| 172 | Ruswahl Samaai | Men's long jump | 2 | $152,500 |
| 173 | Mary Moraa | three disciplines | 9 | $151,500 |
| 174 | Ryan Whiting | Men's shot put | 5 | $150,500 |
| 175 | Nadine Müller | Women's discus throw | 3 | $150,000 |
| 176 | Alexis Copello | Men's triple jump | 2 | $149,500 |
| 177 | Andreas Thorkildsen | Men's javelin throw | 10 | $149,500 |
| 178 | Cordell Tinch | Men's 110 m hurdles | 5 | $149,500 |
| 179 | Anzhelika Sidorova | Women's pole vault | 4 | $149,250 |
| 180 | Isaac Makwala | two disciplines | 1 | $148,750 |
| 181 | Aries Merritt | Men's 110 m hurdles | 8 | $148,500 |
| 182 | Jamal Britt | Men's 110 m hurdles | 5 | $148,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Tajay Gayle is 162nd of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $160,250.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Tajay Gayle most
AG Memorial Van Damme 2026 paid $30,000 for 1st in the long jump, one of seven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Miltiadis Tentoglou, Simon Ehammer, Bozhidar Sarâboyukov, Wayne Pinnock, Yanni Sampson and Jorge A. Hodelín.
AG Memorial Van Damme 2024 paid $30,000 for 1st in the long jump, one of six in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Simon Ehammer, Miltiadis Tentoglou, Mattia Furlani, Carey McLeod and Wayne Pinnock.
Prefontaine Classic 2023 paid $12,000 for 2nd in the long jump, one of seven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Yuki Hashioka, Radek Juška, Jarrion Lawson, Will Williams, LaQuan Nairn and Simon Ehammer.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Tajay Gayle won?
$160,250, which ranks 162nd of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 24 paid finishes between 2018 and 2026.
What is Tajay Gayle's biggest Diamond League payday?
$30,000, for finishing 1st in the long jump at the 2026 AG Memorial Van Damme. That is a final, which is why it is the biggest: the final pays two to five times what the same place is worth at a series meeting.
How does the Diamond League decide what Tajay Gayle gets paid?
Entirely by where he 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 men's long jump 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 Tajay Gayle won?
Four of 26, worth $80,000 between them. Five of his appearances came at a final, which paid $88,000.
Has Tajay Gayle 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. Those starts are in the result tables on this site either way.
How much did Tajay Gayle win at the 2025 World Championships?
$35,000, 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 Tajay Gayle earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 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 him, 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 Tajay Gayle is Norah Jeruto on $160,750, and one below Sunette Viljoen on $160,000. Tajay Gayle 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 men's long jump prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Tajay Gayle has been paid in one of them. The biggest of the rest are men's 100 m, men's pole vault and men's 800 m. Every meeting he has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and AG Memorial Van Damme 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 men's long jump page. Ultimate Championship prize money is the 2026 championship in Budapest, $10,000,000 over three days, and the full final is on the men's long jump page. Indoor championships prize money is the Nanjing 2025 and Toruń 2026 championships, $4,664,000 put up across 53 finals, and the indoor final is on the men's long jump page.