List Of The Top 50 UFC Salaries 2022, Highest Earning Fighters, Salary Scale Ranking Explained

List Of The Top 50 UFC Salaries 2022, Highest Earning Fighters, Salary Scale Ranking Explained

In recent times the UFC industry has gained a lot of popularity and there has been a considerable amount of increase in its viewership, know about the salaries for 2022

This increase has also resulted in the rise in the fighters’ popularity and their net worth.

In this scenario, there has been a huge expansion in the number of fans. This has led people to wonder about the MMA fighters, their lifestyle, and their net worth.

MMA has been a quite popular sport for a long time. Even with less technology back then, spectators and players had a great time watching the sport. Now, it is one of the most famous and thriving industries in the sporting ecosystem and many people can now follow their dreams make a living as this industry produce several wealthy athletes.

List Of Top 50 UFC Salaries 2022 And Highest Earning Fighters 

But there are many complications as well in this as the Athletic commissions didn’t release the information regarding the fighter purse until 2004, thus the information acquired is from UFC 46.  These are the only reported salaries plus Fight of the Night, Knockout of the Night, and Submission of the Night bonuses that have been released publicly.

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A lot of the top-performing fighters are paid additional bonuses that aren’t mentioned in the report. Also, these top boxers get a cut of the pay-per-view buys for events that they headline, in addition to this; every fighter makes money from sponsorships. The official UFC Reebok money of sponsorship money was added into the figures starting with UFC 189.  Many athletic commissions don’t report the information of salaries of the fighters.

Thus, it should not be considered that a fighter’s purse is based on what they have earned in their other fights.  But this data is still very close to accurate, as the purse remaining for most of the fighters’ purses remains rather predictable from fight to fight.

No, stop wondering about the net worth of the fighters and let’s have a look at the Top 50 list of the highest earning fighters in UFC. Click on the fighter’s name to get a breakdown of their complete salary.

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1Conor McGregor* $25,302,000
2Khabib Nurmagomedov* $14,770,200
3Alistair Overeem* $  9,914,500
4Anderson Silva * $  8,732,000
5Andrei Arlovski* $  7,201,000
6Michael Bisping* $  7,135,000
7Junior dos Santos* $  7,110,000
8Georges St-Pierre* $  7,037,000
9Jon Jones* $  7,025,000
10Donald Cerrone* $  6,816,200
11Mark Hunt* $  6,304,000
12Daniel Cormier* $  6,256,000
13Stipe Miocic* $  6,068,000
14Jose Aldo* $  6,067,000
15Vitor Belfort* $  5,455,200
16Frankie Edgar* $  5,429,000
17Dustin Poirier* $  5,428,700
18Mauricio ‘Shogun’ Rua* $  5,270,000
19Brock Lesnar* $  5,080,000
20Nate Diaz* $  4,912,000
21Max Holloway* $  4,833,000
22Derrick Lewis* $  4,804,000
23Rashad Evans* $  4,735,000
24Tyron Woodley* $  4,684,000
25Lyoto Machida* $  4,585,000
26Chris Weidman* $  4,573,000
27Dan Henderson* $  4,400,000
28Chuck Liddell* $  4,380,000
29Robbie Lawler* $  4,364,000
30Ronda Rousey* $  4,275,000
31Fabricio Werdum* $  4,258,000
32Kamaru Usman* $  4,236,500
33Charles Oliveira* $  4,177,300
34Amanda Nunes* $  4,153,000
35Tito Ortiz* $  4,135,000
36Jim Miller* $  4,122,000
37Demian Maia * $  3,953,000
38Israel Adesanya* $  3,910,500
39Anthony Pettis* $  3,632,500
40Diego Sanchez* $  3,599,000
41Demetrious Johnson* $  3,538,000
42Frank Mir* $  3,509,000
43Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson* $  3,490,000
44Ronaldo ‘Jacare’ Souza* $  3,456,000
45Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira * $  3,400,000
46Robert Whittaker* $  3,392,000
47B.J. Penn * $  3,345,000
48Rafael dos Anjos* $  3,313,000
49Jorge Masvidal* $  3,265,000
50Glover Teixeira* $  3,157,000

UFC Salary Scale Ranking

There are three salary tiers that a UFC fighter is divided into: low, medium, and high. The lowest earners earn between $10,000 and $30,000, and the highest tier takes home between $500,000 and $3,000,000 per fight.

In the list of top of highest-earning fighters, Conor McGregor, the former Cage Warriors featherweight and lightweight champion comes first with $25,302,000. That is followed by Khabib Nurmagomedov with an amount of $14,770,200.

Third, comes the former Strike force Heavyweight Champion, DREAM Heavyweight Champion, K-1 World Grand Prix Champion, and the first fighter to hold world titles in MMA and K-1 kickboxing at the same time, Alistair Overeem with $  9,914,500. He is followed by Anderson Silva with $ 8,732,000 and the position is taken by Andrei Arlovski with $ 7,201,000.

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