Grand Slam of Darts prize money
The PDC paid £650k to the 32 players at the 2022 Grand Slam of Darts, the one tournament with a group stage, so a player can lose a match and still win it. Winning it was worth £150,000, and the smallest payment at the event was £5,000.
A player is paid once, for where the run ended. The band is the whole of it rather than a step on the way to it, so a player who lost in the semi-finals collected £50,000 and not that plus every band beneath it. Read as single payments the seven bands come to £622,000, and the group winner bonus accounts for the other £28,000 of the £650,000 pot. Read as a ladder they do not: the champion alone would take £320,250, against the £150,000 Michael Smith was actually paid for the title.
What each finishing place paid
The seven bands the 32 players are divided into
| FINISHING PLACE | PLAYERS | EACH | THE BAND |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | 1 | £150,000 | £150,000 |
| Runner-up | 1 | £70,000 | £70,000 |
| Semi-finalists | 2 | £50,000 | £100,000 |
| Quarter-finalists | 4 | £25,000 | £100,000 |
| Last 16 | 8 | £12,250 | £98,000 |
| Third in group | 8 | £8,000 | £64,000 |
| Fourth in group | 8 | £5,000 | £40,000 |
| Paid for finishing | 32 | — | £622,000 |
What each band took between them
How far each band got
Winning it paid 30 times what the fourth in group band paid. Inside a band nothing separates one player from another: the eight players who lost in the round of 16 were all paid £12,250, whether they lost by a leg or by a mile. It is also why the bands come to £622,000 rather than the £650,000 on the poster. Eight players collected the group winner bonus of £3,500 on top of the band their run ended in, £28,000 in all and out of the same pot.
The money does not stack
What the champion took, and what a ladder would have paid
This is the one thing about darts money that is worth getting right, because every other prize fund on this site works the other way. A club in the Champions League is paid for reaching the last sixteen and paid again for reaching the last eight, and the run is worth the sum of them. In darts there is no sum: a player is paid for where the run ended and for nothing before it. Multiply each band by the players in it and the total is £622,000, which with the £28,000 group winner bonus is the £650,000 the PDC put up. Add the bands the other way and the champion alone takes £320,250.
Who collected it
Every one of the 32 players, and what the finish was worth
| PLAYER | BAND | PAID |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Smith | Winner | £150,000 |
| Nathan Aspinall | Runner-up | £70,000 |
| Luke Humphries | Semi-finalists | £50,000 |
| Raymond van Barneveld | Semi-finalists | £50,000 |
| Alan Soutar | Quarter-finalists | £25,000 |
| Gerwyn Price | Quarter-finalists | £25,000 |
| Joe Cullen | Quarter-finalists | £25,000 |
| Michael van Gerwen | Quarter-finalists | £25,000 |
| Danny Noppert | Last 16 | £12,250 |
| Dirk van Duijvenbode | Last 16 | £12,250 |
| Jermaine Wattimena | Last 16 | £12,250 |
| Jonny Clayton | Last 16 | £12,250 |
| Josh Rock | Last 16 | £12,250 |
| Rob Cross | Last 16 | £12,250 |
| Ross Smith | Last 16 | £12,250 |
| Simon Whitlock | Last 16 | £12,250 |
| Damon Heta | Third in group | £8,000 |
| Dave Chisnall | Third in group | £8,000 |
| Luke Woodhouse | Third in group | £8,000 |
| Martin Schindler | Third in group | £8,000 |
| Mensur Suljović | Third in group | £8,000 |
| Peter Wright | Third in group | £8,000 |
| Ritchie Edhouse | Third in group | £8,000 |
| Scott Williams | Third in group | £8,000 |
| Adam Gawlas | Fourth in group | £5,000 |
| Christian Perez | Fourth in group | £5,000 |
| Fallon Sherrock | Fourth in group | £5,000 |
| Leonard Gates | Fourth in group | £5,000 |
| Lisa Ashton | Fourth in group | £5,000 |
| Nathan Rafferty | Fourth in group | £5,000 |
| Ryan Searle | Fourth in group | £5,000 |
| Ted Evetts | Fourth in group | £5,000 |
Michael Smith was paid £150,000 for winning it rather than that on top of every band beneath, which is what makes the seven bands add up to £622,000 of the £650,000 the PDC put up, the group winner bonus being the rest.
Around this on the darts calendar
What else was played either side of it
| EVENT | CHAMPION | PLAYERS | THE POT |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Slam of Darts 2021 | Gerwyn Price | 32 | £550,000 |
| European Championship 2021 | Rob Cross | 32 | £500,000 |
| Players Championship Finals 2021 | Peter Wright | 64 | £500,000 |
| World Grand Prix 2021 | Jonny Clayton | 32 | £450,000 |
| World Series of Darts Finals 2021 | Jonny Clayton | 24 | £300,000 |
| Masters 2021 | Jonny Clayton | 24 | £220,000 |
| Gibraltar Darts Trophy 2021 | Gerwyn Price | 48 | £140,000 |
| Nordic Darts Masters 2021 | Michael van Gerwen | 16 | £60,000 |
| PDC World Championship 2022 | Peter Wright | 96 | £2,500,000£2.5m |
| World Matchplay 2022 | Michael van Gerwen | 32 | £800,000 |
| World Grand Prix 2022 | Michael van Gerwen | 32 | £600,000 |
| European Championship 2022 | Ross Smith | 32 | £500,000 |
| Players Championship Finals 2022 | Michael van Gerwen | 64 | £500,000 |
| World Series of Darts Finals 2022 | Gerwyn Price | 24 | £300,000 |
| Masters 2022 | Joe Cullen | 24 | £220,000 |
| Austrian Darts Open 2022 | Michael van Gerwen | 48 | £140,000 |
| Belgian Darts Open 2022 | Dave Chisnall | 48 | £140,000 |
| Czech Darts Open 2022 | Luke Humphries | 48 | £140,000 |
| Dutch Darts Championship 2022 | Michael Smith | 48 | £140,000 |
| Gibraltar Darts Trophy 2022 | Damon Heta | 48 | £140,000 |
The 20 events on this site played closest in time to this one, oldest first. Together with the 2022 Grand Slam of Darts they paid out £9,490,000.
Frequently asked questions
How much did the 2022 Grand Slam of Darts winner get?
£150,000, and Michael Smith is who collected it. It is the whole of what the champion was paid: there is no separate payment for each round on the way to it.
What was the Grand Slam of Darts prize money in 2022?
£650,000 across the 32 players. £622,000 of it went on finishing place, split into seven bands from £150,000 down to £5,000, and £28,000 was the group winner bonus paid to the eight group winners on top of their band.
What is the smallest payment at the Grand Slam of Darts?
£5,000. That is the fourth in group band, which covers eight players who finished bottom of the group. No player at the 2022 event collected less.
Does Grand Slam of Darts prize money add up round by round?
No. A player is paid once, for where the run ended, and the band is the whole of it. A player who lost in the semi-finals collected £50,000 and not that plus every band beneath it. Add the seven bands up as single payments and they come to £622,000, which with the £28,000 group winner bonus is the £650,000 pot; add them as a ladder and the champion alone would take £320,250.
Which band pays out the most at the Grand Slam of Darts?
Winner, at £150,000. Nobody else at the event is paid more in one payment.
Where to next
The rest of the darts money
Michael Smith took £150,000 here and £2,787,000 in all. Grand Slam of Darts prize money puts this edition beside the other 10 we hold. For the other tournaments, see PDC World Championship prize money, World Matchplay prize money, Players Championship Finals prize money, World Grand Prix prize money, European Championship prize money, UK Open prize money, World Series of Darts Finals prize money, Masters prize money, International Darts Open prize money, Austrian Darts Open prize money, European Darts Grand Prix prize money, German Darts Championship prize money, Premier League Darts prize money, European Darts Open prize money, German Darts Grand Prix prize money, Czech Darts Open prize money, PDC World Masters prize money, Gibraltar Darts Trophy prize money, European Darts Trophy prize money, Belgian Darts Open prize money, Baltic Sea Darts Open prize money, Hungarian Darts Trophy prize money, Dutch Darts Masters (European Tour) prize money, European Darts Matchplay prize money, Dutch Darts Championship prize money, US Darts Masters prize money, New Zealand Darts Masters prize money, Nordic Darts Masters prize money, German Darts Open prize money, German Darts Masters (European Tour) prize money, Flanders Darts Trophy prize money, Swiss Darts Trophy prize money, Bahrain Darts Masters prize money, Danish Darts Open prize money, Australian Darts Masters prize money, Poland Darts Open prize money, Slovak Darts Open prize money, Dutch Darts Masters prize money, Poland Darts Masters prize money, German Darts Masters prize money, Melbourne Darts Masters prize money, Austrian Darts Championship prize money, Belgian Darts Championship prize money, Auckland Darts Masters prize money, Brisbane Darts Masters prize money, New South Wales Darts Masters prize money, Shanghai Darts Masters prize money, Saudi Arabia Darts Masters prize money, Women's World Matchplay prize money, Perth Darts Masters prize money, Queensland Darts Masters prize money and Dubai Duty Free Darts Masters prize money. Darts prize money ranks all 793 players across the £91,450,000 the 268 events paid out. Where a competition pays again at every round rather than once at the end, see Champions League prize money, and for the shape darts shares with football at national level, World Cup prize money.