Updated Salaries

Drivers:

1. Fernando Alonso Ferrari €22m
= Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari €22m
=Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Racing €22m
4. Lewis Hamilton Mercedes €20m
5. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes €16m
6. Nico Rosberg Mercedes €12m
7. Felipe Massa Williams €4m
= Nico Hulkenberg Force India F1 €4m
9. Romain Grosjean Lotus F1 Team €3m
= Pastor Maldonado Lotus F1 Team €3m
= Sergio Perez Force India F1 €3m
12. Adrian Sutil Sauber €2m
13. Kevin Magnuseen McLaren-Mercedes €1m
= Valtteri Bottas Williams €1m
15. Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull Racing €750,000
= Jean-Eric Vergne Scuderia Toro Rosso €750,000
17. Jules Bianchi Marussia €500,000
18. Esteban Gutierrez Sauber €400,000
19. Daniil Kvyat Scuderia Toro Rosso €250,000
20. Max Chilton Marussia €200,000
21. Marcus Ericsson Caterham F1 €150,000
= Kamui Kobayshi Caterham F1 €150,000

Looks like RBR is definitely getting their investment back on Ricciardo.

 

It is early days for Ricciardo - he must have some performance based escalator built into his fees.

Vettel also started low but with consistently good performances had worked himself into 8 figures.

 

wow, a huge drop off from Rosberg to Massa. Considering there are only 22 of these drivers, I would have expected the lower end guys to be paid even more.

 

I guess these numbers don't include performance related bonuses ?
As we've seen for kimi last year, it can make a big difference...

 

Holy crap, that's all some of those guys make? Absurd.

 

Ricci's stock value will have certainly shot up at the end of this season if he carries on performing like he has been.

 

Lol 22m for kimi lol

 

Source?

I don't think the guys at the bottom of that list make dollar (or Euro) one.....

Most of them are bringing money to their teams in return for their drives.

Sorry, reads like BS to me.

Cheers,
Ian

 

I thought such was the case for Pastor Maldonado, at least. Now I'm really perplexed as to how he still has a seat with Lotus.

 

You do know Fred's middle name is "Santander', right?....



Cheers,
Ian

 

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Doesn't the sponsor pay their wages and gives a chunk to the team too? ( for people like maldanado)

 

Nico just signed a new deal for 20 million per season.

 

Bottas is a bargain. Kimi - well, you just have to admire his negotiation skills...

 

Chilton is getting paid??What for???

 

By his dad. Maybe it gives him a sense of accomplishment .

 

And Alonso's negotiation skills to.

Kimi at least, has won a championship for Ferrari.

 

+1.....Alonso despite all the spying and cheating still managed to lose to Kimi and Ferrari...

 

Clearly Bottas and Riccardo deserve a pay raise after this season!!

The others - not so much but you can hardly blame them for making their $$ while they can.

 

I'm sure Bottas gets a lot of money per point earned, maybe even more than the Merc/Ferrari/RB guys.

 

^^ that's a good point (pardon the pun), but surely the salary figures posted are just basic salaries. Like bankers, that doesn't tell half the story of what their total packages are. Would be more interesting to see total earnings including points bonuses, and endorsements...

 

Yes. Quite harder to predict that though. Drivers like Schumacher (and Lauda, for instance) got paid MILLIONS a year just to wear a hat.

If Bottas continues the way he does this year, and considering how bad the car was last year, I don't think it would be unreasonable that he'll walk away with 10m in point based bonus alone...

 

I think Kimi had a $1M Salary at Lotus? $250K per point, one win, and he's waaaaay over his salary.

 

I thought it was 3m + 50k pp...down from 5m and ???pp in 2012. He did better than expected in 2012 and single handedly almost bankrupted the team, so they apparently revised his salary to a lower (base) amount. Not that it had much effect as they simply didn't pay him (I wonder if they ever did?)