About this reference desk, and the rule everything follows from
This is a reference desk for wealth and earnings figures that exist in a public document. It has one rule, and every other decision on the site is a consequence of it: a figure appears only if the document behind it can be named and reached. Everything that follows (the refusal of celebrity estimates, the bands instead of numbers, the pages that end in "not published") is that rule applied consistently.
What the site publishes
Documented earnings, sport by sport, on the pages where a governing body publishes what it paid: career prize money, event purses, published pay scales, announced transfer fees. Company figures taken from filings and annual reports. Personal financial disclosures where a statute requires them: congressional asset ranges and insider transaction reports. And the Federal Reserve’s measurement of household wealth in the United States, which is the one wealth figure anybody can check against their own household.
Each page names its register, the section within it, and the year. Where two registers disagree, both are shown. Where a register publishes a band rather than a figure, the band is printed as a band.
What it does not publish, and why
No net worth figures for private individuals. There is no register of a private person’s assets in the United States or in any comparable country, so every published figure of that kind is an estimate assembled from other estimates. The reasoning is set out in full, because it is the decision that shapes the whole site.
No rankings, no predictions and no valuations of private companies with no priced event. No sponsored content of any kind. And no figure that cannot be traced, which means several pages here are shorter and less satisfying than the search result that led to them.
How it is funded
It is not monetised. There are no affiliate links, no advertising, no sponsored placements, no paid inclusion and no commercial relationship with any organisation named on the site. Nothing on a page changes because of who pays, because nobody pays.
That is stated plainly because the alternative is the ordinary economics of this subject area: wealth-estimate pages exist to carry advertising, and the incentive is to publish a confident figure that ranks rather than a documented one that does not. Removing the revenue removes the incentive.
Corrections, and what happens to a challenged figure
Every figure on this site is attached to a named document, which makes corrections unusually tractable: a correction is a claim that the document says something different, and that can be settled by opening it.
If a figure here does not match its register, it is changed and the page records that it was. If a register has itself been updated (a tour revising a career total, a board publishing a new pay scale) the page follows the register. If a figure is challenged without a document, nothing changes, because there is nothing to check against. Enquiries go to the written address on the publisher record, and the contact page sets out how each kind of request is handled.
How far the record reaches, and where it stops
The desk covers what the registers cover, which is narrower than the subject sounds. Competitive earnings reach back as far as the paying body’s own published record and no further, which for the older tours means a career total and not a season-by-season breakdown. Company figures begin at the first filing a company was obliged to make. Household measurement follows the Federal Reserve’s three-year survey cycle, so the current tables are the 2022 release until the next one is published.
Geographically the disclosure pages are United States material, because that is where the statutory registers used here are held; the sporting registers are international, since a tour publishes what it paid wherever the competitor is from. Where a register exists but cannot be read — one major tour blocks machine access to its player pages — the page names the body and says how a reader reaches the figure by hand rather than filling the gap with an estimate.
Questions readers send
Is this an official site of any league, tour or authority?
No. It is an independent editorial reference desk. It quotes the published records of tours, leagues, commissions, regulators and public bodies, and it has no relationship with any of them. Every page names the register it used so the reader can go to the source directly.
Who maintains the site?
It is maintained editorially rather than by a named byline: the pages are documentation of other people’s records, not personal commentary, so the register block matters more than an author line. The publisher details, including the written address for enquiries, are on the publisher record.
How do you make money from this?
It does not. There are no affiliate links, no advertising, no sponsorship and no paid inclusion. That is a deliberate choice: the usual economics of wealth-estimate pages reward a confident figure over a documented one.
Will you add a net worth figure if I send you one?
Only if it comes with a public document that states it. A figure from an aggregator, a press report of a private contract, or a personal calculation cannot be published here, because a reader would have no way to check it.
Why do some pages say “not published” instead of giving a figure?
Because that is the honest state of the record. For most people, in most sports, in most eras, nobody published what they were paid, and saying so, with the documented frame around the gap, leaves a reader better informed than an invented number would.