Masters prize money
The PDC paid £200k to the sixteen players at the 2020 Masters, an invitation event for the top of the Order of Merit, with no qualifiers and no way in from outside it. Winning it was worth £60,000, 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 £17,500 and not that plus every band beneath it. Read as single payments the five bands come to £200,000, which is the pot. Read as a ladder they do not: the champion alone would take £117,500, against the £60,000 Peter Wright was actually paid for the title.
What each finishing place paid
The five bands the sixteen players are divided into
| FINISHING PLACE | PLAYERS | EACH | THE BAND |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | 1 | £60,000 | £60,000 |
| Runner-up | 1 | £25,000 | £25,000 |
| Semi-finalists | 2 | £17,500 | £35,000 |
| Quarter-finalists | 4 | £10,000 | £40,000 |
| Last 16 | 8 | £5,000 | £40,000 |
| The whole pot | 16 | — | £200,000 |
What each band took between them
How far each band got
Winning it paid 12 times what the last 16 band paid. Inside a band nothing separates one player from another: the eight players who lost the first match were all paid £5,000, whether they lost by a leg or by a mile.
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 £200,000, which is what the PDC put up. Add the bands the other way and the champion alone takes £117,500.
Who collected it
Every one of the sixteen players, and what the finish was worth
| PLAYER | BAND | PAID |
|---|---|---|
| Peter Wright | Winner | £60,000 |
| Michael Smith | Runner-up | £25,000 |
| Gary Anderson | Semi-finalists | £17,500 |
| Nathan Aspinall | Semi-finalists | £17,500 |
| Adrian Lewis | Quarter-finalists | £10,000 |
| Dave Chisnall | Quarter-finalists | £10,000 |
| Gerwyn Price | Quarter-finalists | £10,000 |
| Jonny Clayton | Quarter-finalists | £10,000 |
| Daryl Gurney | Last 16 | £5,000 |
| Ian White | Last 16 | £5,000 |
| James Wade | Last 16 | £5,000 |
| Joe Cullen | Last 16 | £5,000 |
| Mensur Suljović | Last 16 | £5,000 |
| Michael van Gerwen | Last 16 | £5,000 |
| Rob Cross | Last 16 | £5,000 |
| Simon Whitlock | Last 16 | £5,000 |
Peter Wright was paid £60,000 for winning it rather than that on top of every band beneath, which is what makes the five bands add up to £200,000, the whole of what the PDC put up.
Around this on the darts calendar
What else was played either side of it
| EVENT | CHAMPION | PLAYERS | THE POT |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melbourne Darts Masters 2019 | Michael van Gerwen | 16 | £60,000 |
| New Zealand Darts Masters 2019 | Michael van Gerwen | 16 | £60,000 |
| US Darts Masters 2019 | Nathan Aspinall | 16 | £60,000 |
| PDC World Championship 2020 | Peter Wright | 96 | £2,500,000£2.5m |
| World Matchplay 2020 | Dimitri Van den Bergh | 32 | £700,000 |
| Grand Slam of Darts 2020 | José de Sousa | 32 | £550,000 |
| European Championship 2020 | Peter Wright | 32 | £500,000 |
| Players Championship Finals 2020 | Michael van Gerwen | 64 | £500,000 |
| World Grand Prix 2020 | Gerwyn Price | 32 | £450,000 |
| World Series of Darts Finals 2020 | Gerwyn Price | 24 | £300,000 |
| Belgian Darts Championship 2020 | Gerwyn Price | 48 | £140,000 |
| European Darts Grand Prix 2020 | José de Sousa | 48 | £140,000 |
| German Darts Championship 2020 | Devon Petersen | 48 | £140,000 |
| International Darts Open 2020 | Joe Cullen | 48 | £140,000 |
| PDC World Championship 2021 | Gerwyn Price | 96 | £2,500,000£2.5m |
| World Matchplay 2021 | Peter Wright | 32 | £700,000 |
| 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 |
The 20 events on this site played closest in time to this one, oldest first. Together with the 2020 Masters they paid out £11,640,000.
Frequently asked questions
How much did the 2020 Masters winner get?
£60,000, and Peter Wright 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 Masters prize money in 2020?
£200,000 across the sixteen players. It is split into five bands by finishing place, from £60,000 down to £5,000, and the bands add up to the pot exactly.
What is the smallest payment at the Masters?
£5,000. That is the last 16 band, which covers eight players who lost the first match. No player at the 2020 event collected less.
Does Masters 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 £17,500 and not that plus every band beneath it. Add the five bands up as single payments and they come to £200,000, which is the pot; add them as a ladder and the champion alone would take £117,500.
Which band pays out the most at the Masters?
Winner, at £60,000. Nobody else at the event is paid more in one payment.
Where to next
The rest of the darts money
Peter Wright took £60,000 here and £3,890,000 in all. Masters prize money puts this edition beside the other 9 we hold. For the other tournaments, see PDC World Championship prize money, World Matchplay prize money, Grand Slam of Darts 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, 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.