Forbes list of the world's highest-paid athletes

This is a list of the highest-paid athletes in the world as ranked by Forbes magazine.

WWW forbes.com/athletes

2025 list

The 2025 list:

Rank

Name

Sport

Country

Total

Salary/winnings

Endorsements

1

Cristiano Ronaldo

Association football

2024 list

The 2024 list:

Rank

Name

Sport

Country

Total

Salary/winnings

Endorsements

1

Cristiano Ronaldo

Association football

2023 list

The 2023 list:

Rank

Name

Sport

Country

Total

Salary/winnings

Endorsements

1

Cristiano Ronaldo

Association football

2022 list

The 2022 list:

Rank

Name

Sport

Country

Total

Salary/winnings

Endorsements

1

Association football

2021 list

The 2021 list:

Rank

Name

Sport

Country

Total

Salary/winnings

Endorsements

1

Mixed martial arts

2020 list

The 2020 list:

Rank

Name

Sport

Country

Total

Salary/winnings

Endorsements

1

2010–2019 list

The 2010–2019 list:

Rank

Name

Sport

Nation

Earnings

1

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

2019 list

The 2019 list:

Rank

Name

Sport

Nation

Total

Salary/Winnings

Endorsements

1

Association football

2018 list

The 2018 list:

Rank

Name

Sport

Nation

Total

Salary/Winnings

Endorsements

1

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

2017 list

The 2017 list:

Rank

Name

Sport

Nation

Total

Salary/Winnings

Endorsements

1

Cristiano Ronaldo

Association football

2016 list

The 2016 list:

Rank

Name

Sport

Nation

Total

Salary/Winnings

Endorsements

1

Cristiano Ronaldo

Association football

2015 list

The 2015 list was released on 10 June 2015.

Rank

Name

Sport

Nation

Total

Salary/Winnings

Endorsements

1

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

2014 list

The 2014 list was released on 11 June 2014.

Rank

Name

Sport

Nation

Total

Salary/Winnings

Endorsements

1

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

2013 list

The 2013 list was released on 5 June 2013.

Rank

Name

Sport

Nation

Total

Salary/Winnings

Endorsements

1

2012 list

The 2012 list was released on 18 June 2012.

Rank	Name	Sport	Nationality	Total earnings	Salary/winnings	Endorsements
1	Floyd Mayweather Jr.	Boxing	Books 1 Vineland 71,214 2 Project Hail Mary 31,941 3 Wuthering Heights 18,607 4 Hamlet 15,928 5 Hamnet (novel) 15,832 6 Frankenstein 11,017 7 Flowers in the Attic 10,307 8 The Count of Monte Cristo 9,133 9 Dune Messiah 8,113 10 The Testaments 8,006 Films 1 Sinners (2025 film) 622,394 2 Hamnet (film) 295,777 3 Weapons (2025 film) 223,917 4 Mr Nobody Against Putin 163,645 5 Marty Supreme 149,377 6 KPop Demon Hunters 133,023 7 Sentimental Value 129,966 8 Bugonia (film) 112,650 9 The Secret Agent (2025 film) 77,032 10 All the Empty Rooms 73,731 Programming Languages 1 Python (programming language) 4,694 2 C (programming language) 4,564 3 JavaScript 3,307 4 Scratch (programming language) 2,739 5 C++ 2,012 6 Rust (programming language) 1,710 7 Java (programming language) 1,662 8 R (programming language) 1,501 9 COBOL 1,427 10 YAML 1,308 TV Series 1 The Madison (TV series) 106,133 2 One Piece (2023 TV series) 76,319 3 Scarpetta (TV series) 62,845 4 Paradise (2025 TV series) 48,765 5 The Other Bennet Sister 39,436 6 The Pitt 39,127 7 DTF St. Louis 37,811 8 Love Story (2026 TV series) 32,476 9 Young Sherlock (British TV series) 30,900 10 Bridgerton 29,723 Video Games 1 Resident Evil Requiem 23,671 2 Wordle 22,659 3 Crimson Desert 21,539 4 Pokémon Pokopia 21,183 5 Pokémon (video game series) 8,283 6 Minecraft 7,928 7 Roblox 7,908 8 Grand Theft Auto VI 7,100 9 Grand Theft Auto V 6,727 10 Poppy Playtime 6,368 © 2026 OWIKI.org. Content is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Status: ONLINE Version: 1.05