Tour de France prize money

Where the money actually goes

Charted as what each band collects between them rather than what one rider in it gets, which is the view the table cannot give you. The winner takes 40% of the stage alone and second place 50% of what the winner does, so the shape looks settled by the top three. It is not. 10th to 20th is eleven riders on €100 each, and between them they collect €1,100 , more than 3rd place is paid alone. That band is 11% of the stage, and the winner is paid 40 times what any one rider in it collects.

What it costs the race, and what the rider keeps

Six contributions, running both ways past the same prize

Every prize on this page passes through the UCI's prize money platform, and six contributions are charged against it. Four are paid by the organiser on top of the prize, so they cost the race and not the rider. Two come out of the prize itself. So a €4,000 win costs the Tour de France €4,473 and reaches the rider as €3,852, a gap of €621 between the two ends of the same prize.

The end of career fund is the largest single line and has no equivalent anywhere else on this site: 5% of every prize won in professional road cycling is set aside for riders leaving the sport, and it is charged to the race rather than docked from the rider. Income tax is separate again, is a matter for the rider's own country, and is in none of the figures above.

How the general classification is paid

One figure for the whole race

The grand tours are handled differently from every other stage race. Instead of leaving the total to follow from the stages, the UCI sets one figure covering the stages and the general classification together, and for the Tour de France that figure is €1,000,000. The obligation to pay twenty prizes on every stage and prologue still holds underneath it, and the organiser distributes the rest as it chooses. The Tour de France carries the largest figure of the three at €1,000,000, with the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España on €850,000 each.

What a team is paid for turning up

The participation allowance, owed whatever the result

The grand tours are the one place on the calendar where the UCI does not set this. The allowance for the Tour de France is negotiated between the teams and the organiser, and is not published. Every other race on the men's WorldTour calendar owes a UCI WorldTeam €8,500 and a ProTeam €3,500 per race, whatever the result. What the Tour de France does carry, and more heavily than any other race in the sport, is the obligation to house the teams.

And the obligation to house them

A stage race has to put every team up for the duration, and the UCI sets the headcount each organiser has to cover. It is the largest unpriced cost on this page.

The three grand tours, and the rest of the scale

Five rates cover all 61 races on the two 2026 WorldTour calendars

There is no ladder of races, only a ladder of classes. Three races on the 2026 calendar are grand tours, and the scale obliges every one of them to pay €10,000 a stage and €4,000 to the winner. Nothing in the UCI scale separates the Tour de France from any of them. What separates them is what the organiser chooses to pay above the floor, and no organiser publishes that.

The three grand tours share the men's stage rate and add a whole-race floor nothing else on the calendar carries: €1,000,000 for the Tour de France, €850,000 each for the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España. Otherwise the one-day figure is a whole race and the stage figure is a single stage, so the two halves of the table are not the same unit. Read down a half rather than across: the men's one-day classics run €50,000 and €40,000 against €7,700 for a women's, and a men's stage €10,000 against €3,930. The whole UCI scale has all 32 ladders, including the ones below this calendar.

The Tour de France Femmes, on the same roads

The same organiser, the same week, a different scale

The Tour de France and the Tour de France Femmes are run by the same organiser over the same roads, and the UCI sets them different floors. The men's race carries a whole-race floor of €1,000,000. The women's race carries no whole-race floor at all: it is paid on the standard Women's WorldTour scale, €3,930 a stage with half as much again for the general classification, and a stage win worth €735 against the €4,000 a men's stage pays.

Twenty races on the 2026 calendar are run for both, and the gap is the same shape at every one of them. Men's against women's cycling prize money sets all twenty side by side, and finds the one event in the sport where the two figures are identical. Or read Tour de France Femmes prize money on its own.

The other grand tours

Three races on the 2026 calendar are paid on the UCI WorldTour, stage races ladder

Around this on the 2026 calendar

What else the men were racing for either side of it

Racing in France

Eight of the 2026 WorldTour races are held here, across both calendars

Where to next

The whole UCI prize money scale holds all 32 ladders, from the €50,000 a race group 1 classic owes down to the bottom of the calendar. What a cycling team is paid, and pays covers the participation allowances across every class and what it costs to register a team for a season. World Championships prize money is the one place the men's and women's scales are identical. Men's against women's prize money is the twenty paired races. What a professional cyclist is paid is the salary the riders in this race are on, which is the money they actually live off. And cycling is the whole section.