WWE Superstar Salary 2023: How Much Do WWE Wrestlers Make?
What is the range of WWE Salaries? How much money do their top stars make?
WWE has some top-notch wrestlers, but those stars come with hefty money also. WWE wrestlers’ salaries start from $250,000 per year and range up to $10 million per year.
In April 2022, Triple H told The Athletic that WWE Superstars on the main roster(RAW & SmackDown) make at least $250,000 per year in salary. NXT contract deals range from $50,000 to $200,000, with top talents making at least $100,000 per year.
Reported Salaries
- John Cena – $8.5 million(reported salary from Forbes in 2018)
- Roman Reigns – $5 million(as per a report on the Wrestling Observer Newsletter- base salary of $5 million plus merchandise sales share)
- Brock Lesnar – $5 million(as per a report on the Wrestling Observer Newsletter)
- Vince McMahon – $5 million(as per WWE’s Filing with SEC. Payout includes his $2 million fixed salary, stock options, and other incentives)
- Logan Paul – $5 million(reported salary after his new contract signed in 2023)
- Triple H – $3.5 million(As per WWE SEC filling, he has a fixed annual salary of $900,000 while the rest comes from stock awards and incentives. Might have a different pay structure now as he has a more prominent role)
- AJ Styles – $3 million(Fightful reported that Styles’ new contract has his salary “well over” $3 million)
- Stephanie McMahon – $3 million(figures as per WWE SEC filling -$1.35 million in fixed salary and rest of the amount in stocks and incentives. Might be different now that she no longer has an active role in the company)
- The Undertaker – $2.5 million(widely reported figure after he signed a legends deal in 2019)
- Kevin Owens – $2 million(As per Wrestling Observer Radio when he signed a new deal in late 2021)
- Shane McMahon – $828,0000(As per WWE SEC filling)
Expected Salaries
The below figures are purely based on some quoted figures and assumptions. Actual figures are likely to vary.
- Seth Rollins – $3 million
- Becky Lynch – $3 million
- The Miz – $2.5 million
- Charlotte Flair – $2 million
- Paul Heyman – $2 million
- Big E – $1 million
- Bobby Lashley – $1 million
- Drew McIntyre – $1 million
- Finn Balor – $1 million
- Jey Uso – $1 million
- Jimmy Uso – $1 million
- Kofi Kingston – $1 million
- Rey Mysterio – $1 million
- Sheamus – $1 million
- Jinder Mahal – $900,000
- Kane – $900,000
- Sami Zayn – $750,000
- Carlito – $500,000
- Bianca Belair – $500,000
- Ricochet – $450,000
- Shinsuke Nakamura – $400,000
- Bayley – $350,000
- Alexa Bliss – $350,000
- Asuka – $350,000
- Gunther – $300,000
- Bronson Reed – $250,000
- Liv Morgan – $250,000
- Austin Theory – $250,000
- Bron Breakker – $150,000
- Grayson Waller – $150,000
- JD McDonagh – $150,000
- Carmelo Hayes – $100,000
- Roxanne Perez – $100,000
- Cora Jade- $100,000
“He signed a $3 million per year deal with the company for 3 years. And he only appears in two matches per year, taking his income to $1.5 million per year.”
$3m/yr is $3m/yr regardless of how many matches. How does that make for $1.5m/yr?
From what I read, and I rechecked it, it said $1.5 million per match.
If you read it said one. 5 million per match. Per match. Per match.
Wrestles two times a year, makes 3 million per year which would be 1.5 million per match. Per match. Per match. Did I mention per match? Pay the f*** attention!
That was 1.5 million per MATCH not per year. amounting to 3 million a year because he only wrestles two matches a year.
Charlotte Flair is so underpaid…
No she isnt, change her name and she is nothing
Charlotte is everything and she is definitely under paid!!!
Hey genius, Jeff Hardy was released from WWE a month before you wrote this
This post was originally published on December 4. The date you are seeing above is the date the article was last updated.
Thanks!
Hey Jeff Hardy wasn’t mentioned in this article…GENIUS!
The Rollins family are reeling in the dough. 6 million per year $$$$$
Charlotte Flair Is VERY under paid but her individual ratings are low plus the Women’s break through hasn’t make any affect yet, but it’s coming.
Do not get bent out of shape. If they were dissatisfied, they would not wrestle.
You are talking about salaries but we do not know what benefits they each have, individual perks to supplement the salaries. Travel, chosen time off, perhaps hotel rooms or free vehicles to drive to events, etc.
Do not forget that some pay might be based on time they have been a superstar.
Triple H is a man of honor he nos what right for his workers i don’t have much moment but all i want to say is that i love wwe and i pray one day i will one it my life dream i will die for wrestling is my life doh I can’t become one because no to help but i wont give up my dream i love all wwe wrestlers
He NOS? I believe the spelling you’re looking for is K-N-O-W. By the way, when you’re saying things like, all I want to say, you capitalize your I. Learn some punctuation if, your gonna post or, comment publicly. Commas, apostrophes, periods, question marks, you know, things like that. Damn son, don’t they teach you kids ANYTHING in school anymore?
Chris, when you wrote ‘your’ gonna, I assume you meant ‘you’re’ ?
GONNA? I believe the spelling you’re looking for is G-O-I-N-G T-O
If you’re ‘gonna’ correct people, you should make sure your own house is in order first.
Yes Stevo310 Thank you 🙌🏽.
Just wish my response to your comment was sooner.
Anyway I’m reading Chris response to Chris Junior thinking to myself “Really Dude, we knew what he meant.
Besides with all those damn comma’s in his own response I wanted to ask who are his parents & if they’ve ever checked his homework or corrected him on his own grammar & punctuation?..
Having the nerve to mention teachers & just embarrassed his own.
I will die for wrestling… WHAT! I love WWE… WHAT!! Its my dream… WHAT!!!
Charlotte Flair need to be paid more. Seth Rollins need to win the Universal Title again and I wish AJ styles would get another big push he has some of the best moves in the ring I have ever seen.
What is up with all this aggression in the comments tho?? Damn that’s sad