Newschoolers assessment of top pro skiers net worth

I think it's all relative...i'm saying that he makes at least 500,000 a year from his combined sponsors...so maybe he doesn't make that much from grenade but i'm sure he makes more than a hundred grand from oakley where he has a signature goggle...

..i would assume that Tanner is a Tier One Oakley sponsored athlete...and Simon is a Tier 2 sponsored athlete like Sammy/Pep/Jon...and there are different tiers of sponsorships..but that's how sponsorships go, whether it's skiing or otherwise.

A nationally aired commercial coast to coast, garners an actor about 25 to 30 grand..that's it and the commercial runs about a month. That's a national ad campaign...Tanner has his own goggles..a product that he lends his name to. Way more cash...and it runs a year and is displayed in print in a myriad of magazines.

btw...i made a mistake in saying Tanner wears a Giro helmet...I think he's sponsored by POC which is what Jon said in his preview of x games pipe videoblog.

I think Pollard is up there too...what with his development contract with Line and his movies. For that matter although still in it's infancy, Boronowski's Joystick company must still garner him some added net worth...maybe not this year but in the coming years when he starts to see a profit...if he hasn't already..

 
I would just like to say that this is the dumbest fucking thread I have seen on newschoolers. The guy who started this thread is way off base, maybe in the years to come pro skiing will become big enough to warrant paying athletes salaries like that but they definitely dont get that now.
 
honeslty corporations are paying far less than you think. Step out of your newschool centric mind set and realize that no one except a miniscule few people in North America give a shit about skiing and give far less of a shit about the niche we know as freeskiing. Sponsorships are given out if corporations think that sponsoring an athlete will give them a solid return on their investment. The freeskiing let alone the ski industry is so small that paying a single athlete like T hall or Jon 1,000,000 500,000 dollars can't be justified as a sound economic move for a company. Very few people are going to be interested in buying a T-hall pro model goggle and the exposure he gets in mainstream media is so minimal that it really offers no Return on Investment for Oakley.

Some perspective: Indycar racing which dwarfs skiing in popularity, tv ratings, mainstream media exposure, event attendence is having trouble acquiring 2 million dollar associate sponsorships for teams....now if a series with several million US and International fans, has the highest attended single day sporting event in the world is having trouble getting 2 million dollars from corporations, how in the hell can newschool skiing justify paying an athlete 1 million dollars??

I hate to sound so negative but you've got to realize our sport is SO small. The largest platform we have to sell the sport are the X games, which draw crappy TV ratings( I'm not sure of the exact number but i would be shocked if it got more than 1.1 nielson TV rating).

Almot all "core" ski companies cannot afford to pay an athlete like Pollard 100,000 dollars a year. I doubt Line makes more than 200,000 dollars worth of sales in a year. If Eric wanted to make money he would have become a investment banker, thank God he didnt.
 
^ I agree. The sport is so small compared to other sports and some athletes in those don't get paid multi millions. Even though those pros deserve it
 
there is no way PK makes 300,000, i head he is one of the most underpaid pros.....doesnt get shit really!!

and as for JON are you kidding me? shaun white is probably only on 10....kelly slater is on like 10!

the bottom line is jon gets paid the most
 
I think you're getting confused with cumulative sponsorships and one company paying one athlete 1 million or half a million....I think from his COMBINED sponsorships plus movie segments which can garner between 5-25 grand depending on the length of the segment...yeah, I think he does make well over that amount PER YEAR...500,000 at least. BUT HIS NET WORTH...is definitely more. Net worth is your cumulative assets vs your liabilities and his businesses are worth A LOT!!

Yeah I agree that it's not Indy Car racing...but I don't know what which circuit you're talking about..Formula ONe...which pays it's top tier athletes in the 20 to 30 mill a season or are you talking about Indy lights racing...which is probably what you're talking about...but even at that you're still talking apples and oranges...if you're going to compare it to anything...compare it to SNOWBOARDING...I think that that would be a better argument.

In any case, I'm sure Tanner is WORTH that much....maybe he doesn't have that liquid in a bank account but he's an investment banker dressed in OAKLEY gear and killing in it. Don't be deceived, Tanner, Simon , Pollard...they know that at 24...you're almost out of the game.
 
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I think most of your arguments are wrong. And pollard definatly is not one of the top paid pros
 
I was comparing one niche sport -indy car racing to another -skiing.

Tanner has his hand in alot of different ventures, in addition to his sponsorships he's also said he does real estate investment with his dad on the side. There is no doubt in my mind T , Jon and Dumont are all raking in 6 figures, however I would be shocked if any of them bring home over 500k a year
 
No, none of them are anywhere NEAR that rich.

Jon gets paid a lot of money. 6 figures by Head alone.

Tanner makes a fair amount of $ off Armada, some from his movies, and his co-ownership of Retallack now gives him some solid worth.

I have absolutely no clue what Simon makes from Target.

Aside from those three, I will say not quite ABSOLUTELY, but with roughly 99% certainty, that no one in the entire ski industry makes 6 figures from a single sponsor. Not even Simon from Salomon.
 
I would say US ski team sponsors like Chevy, Sprint etc pay at least for 500,000 to be the official Truck of the US ski team and for signage on team memrobilia and uniforms. But Ski racing has so much more exposure than NS skiing , especially in Europe, that it warrants top dollar sponsorship.

Bode most definately makes over a mil a year, im sure darren rahlves has money too, but to most americans they are American Skiing, not T, Pollard, Pep etc.
 
at least these guys are better off than rollerbladers for sure. the best skaters in the world struggle to get by on just skating, some of them have both a pro model skate or frame and a day job.
 
It's cool to realize that skiers are able to earn such huge money. I discovered net worth of many sportsmen at that website and I as far as I understand not all kinds of sport can bring such good incomes as skiing.
 
can we please build this list from the bottom up?

#999 - andy parry - a three day old pizza slice and collection of boot fungi - value $0.12

#998 - scrappy joe young - multiple glass sculptures valued at $35 each - total value $105

#997 - rob heule - one 1982 gmc safari with 700,000 km + sofa bed (in back of van) - valued at $212
 
13445189:dbchili said:
can we please build this list from the bottom up?

#999 - andy parry - a three day old pizza slice and collection of boot fungi - value $0.12

#998 - scrappy joe young - multiple glass sculptures valued at $35 each - total value $105

#997 - rob heule - one 1982 gmc safari with 700,000 km + sofa bed (in back of van) - valued at $212
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Dude... 2 cats and a dog. Worth like thousands of pennies.
 
13445189:dbchili said:
#999 - andy parry - a three day old pizza slice and collection of boot fungi - value $0.12
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Pretty sure Andy has the hook up for fresh pizza. That has to be worth a mint given the going rate for pie on the mountain.
 
topic:Yauch said:
So im probly wrong but from my understanding these top pros probly have about this much money in the bank.

Jon olsson 5-10 million

candide thovex 3-4 million

tanner hall 2-3 million

simon dumont 1-2 million

tj schiller 1 million

pollard 1 million?

charles gagnier 500,000

corey vanular 500,000

hatveit, PK, wester 300,000-500,000

olenick, 200,000

i dont know what do you guys think, sorry if i forgot anybody
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If only Corey Vanular had 500k.. #BallinOnABigBudget
 
Dummest thread ever, numbers are way off, but Jon Olsson probably has the largest net worth. With Sponsors like Redbull, Hestra, Leo Vegas.com, head and his own company douche bags you can assume he makes decent bank. he's also done ski racing along with freestyle and his YouTube channel is slowly growing.

After a quick google search his net worth is apparently 3 million.

Candide Thovex is in the same ball park

Tanner Hall is supposedly around 1.4 million

Glen Plake 2.5 million surprisingly

Shane McConkey was 500,000

To compare to other sports related to the industry Shaun White is 40 million. I didn't believe this at first but a lot of sites have similar estimates.

Bode Miller 8 million

Got my info from the site. It's based off wiki so probably not accurate but this list is a little more believable. Hopefully this thread can die now!

http://celebritynetworth.wiki/
 
13825157:Flowbear said:
Dummest thread ever, numbers are way off, but Jon Olsson probably has the largest net worth. With Sponsors like Redbull, Hestra, Leo Vegas.com, head and his own company douche bags you can assume he makes decent bank. he's also done ski racing along with freestyle and his YouTube channel is slowly growing.

After a quick google search his net worth is apparently 3 million.

Candide Thovex is in the same ball park

Tanner Hall is supposedly around 1.4 million

Glen Plake 2.5 million surprisingly

Shane McConkey was 500,000

To compare to other sports related to the industry Shaun White is 40 million. I didn't believe this at first but a lot of sites have similar estimates.

Bode Miller 8 million

Got my info from the site. It's based off wiki so probably not accurate but this list is a little more believable. Hopefully this thread can die now!

http://celebritynetworth.wiki/
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Celebrity net worth is kind of a joke, I would not trust it. It is sometimes accurate, but take it with a grain of salt. Don't be surprised by Plake though, he and Scott Schmidt were huge in the 80's, pretty much the only guys carrying the freeskiing torch, there was almost no one else. He was a very big deal.

Jon is worth a lot. He is a huge hero in Sweden, one of their biggest athletic stars. People who don't know skiing in Sweden still know Jon. He is a bigger hero their than Tanner or Kenworthy or any of those guys here. I would guess he made 2-3 million a year, a good bit more than Tanner or Simon or those other guys he was battling. Jon was making enough that he moved his base of operations to Monte Carlo, for tax purposes. Monte Carlo is insanely expensive, a shitty 2 bed apartment costs something like 2 million euros, but from what I have heard they essentially have no income tax, so if Jon was making 2 million a year this would save him more than a million a year compared to the taxes in Sweden, which are quite high. It is only worth it to move to Monte Carlo if you are very rich, otherwise it is impossible to afford. Henrik Windstedt, also a big hero in Sweden, did the same thing so he should be killing it too, although not quite as hard as Jon. Monte Carlo is awesome by the way, I partied there last summer at the Grand Casino (a great place to feel like James Bond) and at the Buddha Bar. It is next level stuff, but be prepared to spend some money. I live in Orange County, which is pricey, and a dinner which would be 200$ in OC would be 280$ in Monte Carlo. You have to have some serious money to live there. It would be cool, I ski Mammoth 2-3 weekends a month, which is a lot of driving, and you can get to Alagna Italy from Monte Carlo more quickly than you can get to mammy from OC. I found myself thinking that if I won the lottery I would live in the Alps during the week and party in Monte Carlo on the weekends. Monte Carlo has everything except surf. One can dream.....

But back to the net worth question. The vast majority of pros don't make much. We have to remember that while they might be big heroes to us, most people don't know who they are. Kent Kreitler supposedly made about 200k back in the day, McConkey 300-400. Those numbers are just speculation, they are what I have heard from people who would probably know, but have not actually seen the contracts. Like I said before, I would guess Jon makes 2-3 because he is such a huge star in Sweden. Dane Reynolds was making 3.5 per year before he left Quiksilver, and while surfing is bigger than freeskiing in the U.S. (despite the fact that there are more skiers than surfers), I could certainly see Jon making 3 per year. I know Candide also makes a lot, although I doubt it is quite as much as Jon. I don't know if people really get how huge Jon is in Sweden, and the tax advantages of Monte Carlo mean has is probably saving more than a million a year on taxes he would have to pay in the U.S. or Sweden. Because of this, he might actually be worth 15 million, and I could be being conservative if he has a good financial planner. He could also be worth less, I might be wrong on his salary and he might spend too much, but when you make millions you can really see your net worth explode if you are frugal and invest wisely. The majority of people live not much better than paycheck to paycheck, so they don't have the ability to speculate on stocks and real estate. Jon does, and even if he is conservative he might be worth well more than he has actually made. I hope he has a financial planner. Because of all this I would guess Jon is FAR wealthier than, say, Tanner.

Another guy is Jonny Moseley. He was arguably the best skier in the world at one point, and on the short list of GOAT candidates. He could ski Alaska with Jeremy Jones and Jeremy Nobis, two of the best in the game back in the day, watch TGR's the Realm if you don't believe me. Actually, watch that movie anyway. Moseley also won medals in park, and revolutionized an Olympic discipline. He was huge outside of skiing back in the day, he definitely made millions. I just wish he had not walked away so young. Had he gone back to filming after the 2002 Olympics instead of going to Hollywood he might have done something like Few Words before Candide. Absolutely one of the best skiers ever to step on the planet.

Like I said before though, most people on this website overestimate what these guys make. Jon is really lucky to be from Sweden, in the US he would have made money more like Tanner or Simon. That is still great, but not like what he was able to haul in as one of the only famous Swedish athletes.
 
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