Tour de France Femmes prize money: Pogacar’s €500,000 dwarfs entire women’s payout

Vollering earned €50,000 for winning the yellow jersey. Two weeks earlier, Tadej Pogačar received €500,000 for winning the men’s Tour de France.

The difference is just as striking at team level.

FDJ United-Suez earned €77,080 across the nine stages of the Tour de France Femmes, helped considerably by Vollering’s overall victory and three stage wins.

UAE Team Emirates-XRG, meanwhile, collected €832,750 during the men’s Tour.

In other words, Pogačar’s prize for winning the general classification alone was almost twice the €260,750 earned by all 21 women’s teams combined.

More than €2.3 million was distributed across the men’s Tour, roughly nine times the total payout at the Tour de France Femmes. The races differ significantly in scale, with 21 stages for the men compared with nine for the women, but the difference in prize money is considerably larger than the difference in race length.

Those figures have also remained relatively static, with prize money at both Tours changing little in recent years.

Tour de France Femmes race director Marion Rousse has previously defended the difference, saying: “Of course, you have to compare what is comparable.” She argued that the Critérium du Dauphiné (now the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes), which is closer in duration to the women’s Tour, provides a fairer comparison.

Rousse has also urged patience over closing the financial gap. “We need to consolidate the event first,” she said, stressing that sustainable growth remains the priority.

Behind FDJ United-Suez, Canyon//SRAM finished second in the women’s prize money ranking with €51,500. UAE Team L'IMAD earned €37,980, followed by SD Worx-Protime on €18,940 and Lidl-Trek on €14,880.

Further down the table, the amounts fall sharply.

Visma-Lease a Bike earned €7,370, a significant drop from its lucrative 2025 Tour. Defending champion Pauline Ferrand-Prévot abandoned this year’s race, leaving the team without a major result.

At the bottom, six teams earned less than €1,000.

Picnic PostNL collected €400, Lotto Intermarché Ladies €340 and VolkerWessels €250. French team Mayenne Monbana My Pie finished the Tour without earning any prize money at all.