Curling prize money
146 teams have been paid £8,684,887 across 58 slams from 2015 to 2026. Rachel Homan has won the most, £570,350. Every Grand Slam of Curling event pays its men's and women's fields the same purse. Up to 2022/23 the eight teams that reached the playoffs were paid by where they finished, C$35,000 to win the Masters in 2022 down to C$10,000 for a quarter-final, and a team that missed them was paid C$3,000 for every round-robin game it won. Since 2023/24 every team is paid for its round-robin wins, C$4,000 a game, and the playoff teams take a bonus on top, so a team knocked out in the quarter-finals can collect more than one beaten in a semi-final: at the 2025 Masters Joel Retornaz went out in the last eight with C$18,000 and Bruce Mouat lost his semi-final with C$13,000. A team is listed under its skip, and a rink that played a slam with somebody standing in stays under the skip it is named for.
The curling money list
The top 100 of 146 teams by career prize money
The top fifteen
Every event
8 events, by the prize money each has paid
| EVENT | EDITIONS | LATEST WINNER | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Masters | 10 | Matt Dunstone, Rachel Homan | £1,595,906£1.6m |
| Players' Championship | 9 | Ross Whyte, Silvana Tirinzoni | £1,533,101£1.5m |
| Canadian Open | 9 | Yannick Schwaller, Silvana Tirinzoni | £1,476,468£1.5m |
| National | 9 | Bruce Mouat, Rachel Homan | £1,422,788£1.4m |
| Tour Challenge | 9 | Bruce Mouat, Rachel Homan | £1,267,116£1.3m |
| Champions Cup | 7 | Brendan Bottcher, Rachel Homan | £900,214£900k |
| Elite 10 | 4 | Brad Gushue, Anna Hasselborg | £265,984£266k |
| GSOC Tahoe | 1 | Bruce Mouat, Rachel Homan | £223,309£223k |
What each event has paid
Season by season
What curling paid each year, and who earned the most
| YEAR | TOP EARNER | SLAMS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Ross Whyte | 1 | £169,092£169k |
| 2025 | Rachel Homan | 6 | £1,216,926£1.2m |
| 2024 | Bruce Mouat | 5 | £1,094,535£1.1m |
| 2023 | Joel Retornaz | 6 | £1,077,358£1.1m |
| 2022 | Kerri Einarson | 5 | £770,308£770k |
| 2021 | Bruce Mouat | 3 | £431,587£432k |
| 2020 | Brad Jacobs | 1 | £163,187£163k |
| 2019 | Brendan Bottcher | 6 | £871,763£872k |
| 2018 | Rachel Homan | 8 | £970,534£971k |
| 2017 | Brad Gushue | 7 | £851,365£851k |
| 2016 | Brad Gushue | 6 | £637,718£638k |
| 2015 | Rachel Homan | 4 | £430,514£431k |
Prize money paid per year
Curling prize money by country
13 nations, by what their teams have won
| # | NATION | TEAMS | PRIZE MONEY |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canada | 76 | £4,608,696£4.6m |
| 2 | Switzerland | 12 | £908,534£909k |
| 3 | Sweden | 4 | £894,309£894k |
| 4 | Scotland | 11 | £850,828£851k |
| 5 | South Korea | 7 | £390,254£390k |
| 6 | Japan | 8 | £319,933£320k |
| 7 | United States | 12 | £293,093£293k |
| 8 | Italy | 2 | £240,486£240k |
| 9 | Norway | 4 | £62,806£63k |
| 10 | Russia | 3 | £48,044£48k |
| 11 | Germany | 2 | £34,892£35k |
| 12 | China | 4 | £29,792£30k |
| 13 | Denmark | 1 | £3,221£3k |
The leading nations
Frequently asked questions
Who has won the most prize money in curling?
Rachel Homan, with £570,350 and 18 titles. Brad Gushue is second on £497,882.
What is the biggest winner's cheque in curling?
Silvana Tirinzoni took £32,208 for winning the 2023-24 Princess Auto Players' Championship, the largest single first prize we hold.
How much prize money was paid in curling in 2025?
£1,216,926 across 6 slams. Rachel Homan earned the most that year, £100,382.
Which event pays the most?
Masters has paid £1,595,906 across 10 editions. The richest single edition was the 2023-24 Princess Auto Players' Championship, at £249,612.
Which country has won the most curling prize money?
Canada, with £4,608,696 across 76 teams.
Where to next
For every country's prize money across curling and every other sport we hold, see prize money by nation. The richest event here is Masters, and the latest year is 2026. The men's and women's fields are set side by side on men's vs women's curling prize money, and every sport's cases on where women earn more prize money than men. Every sport's richest competitions are ranked on prize money in sport, and what each winner keeps of the pot on the winner's share of prize money, and how many places each one pays on how deep prize money pays.