Disclaimer: what the figures on this site are, and what they are not
Every figure on this site is a quotation from a document published by somebody else, named on the page. That guarantees something quite specific and quite narrow, and it is worth being exact about both halves: what the sourcing does establish, and what no amount of sourcing can.
What the sourcing establishes
That the figure was published, by the named body, in the form described, for the period stated. That is the claim each page makes and the only one it makes. Where a page prints a career prize-money total, the claim is that the tour publishes that total, not that the athlete holds that money now.
The register, not this site, is the source of record. If a register corrects itself, the page follows it; if the two ever disagree, the register is right.
What no amount of sourcing establishes
That a gross figure is a net one. Every published earnings figure in these pages is before tax, before agent and management commission, and before professional costs, and in some sports the costs are enormous.
That a payment to an organisation was a payment to a person. A transfer fee goes to a club, a race purse to an entrant, revenue to a company. Several pages here exist mainly to keep those distinctions visible.
And that a documented figure describes a present position. A contract from 1993, a purse from 2011 and a filing from last year are all historical statements. Nothing on this site is a statement of what anybody holds today, and no page here gives a net worth figure for a private individual for exactly that reason.
Nothing here is advice
The household data pages reproduce a public survey and the calculator compares a figure against its published bands. That is documentation and arithmetic, not financial, tax, investment or legal advice, and it takes no account of anybody’s circumstances.
Similarly, the disclosure pages explain how to read a filing. They do not interpret any particular filer’s position, and they are not a substitute for professional advice where a decision depends on one.
Errors, and how they get fixed
Documented sites are not error-free; they are correctable, which is the useful property. Where a figure here does not match the register named beside it, that is an error and it is fixed on notification.
Report it through the contact page, which explains what happens to each kind of message. A correction that can be checked against a named register is the kind that settles itself: the document either says it or it does not.
Third-party names, and why they appear
Pages here name tours, leagues, commissions, boards, clubs, promoters, regulators and companies. Those names appear because they are the publishers of the documents being quoted, and naming the publisher is the entire point of a citation. None of them has reviewed, approved or contributed to anything on this site.
Trade marks and names remain the property of their owners and are used here descriptively, to identify the register a figure came from. Where a page could be mistaken for an official source, it says plainly that it is not: the publisher record carries that statement in full.
Links out, and what happens beyond them
Where a register is publicly reachable, the page links to it, because a citation a reader cannot follow is decoration. What happens on the other side of such a link is outside this site’s control: a register may reorganise its own pages, put material behind a search form, or withdraw it.
Where that has happened, the page still names the document, the section and the year, which is enough to request it or find it elsewhere. A link is a convenience; the citation is the description of the document.
Questions readers send
Do the figures here represent what someone actually has?
No. Every earnings figure on this site is a gross historical payment recorded by a named register: before tax, agent fees and expenses, and no page gives a net worth figure for a private individual.
Is any of this financial advice?
No. The household data pages reproduce a public survey and the calculator compares a figure against its published bands. That is documentation and arithmetic, and it takes no account of anybody’s circumstances.
Is this site connected to the organisations it names?
No. Tours, leagues, commissions, regulators and companies are named because they publish the documents being quoted. None of them has reviewed or approved anything here.
What happens if a figure here is wrong?
It is corrected on notification. Because every figure names its register, a correction is a matter of opening the document rather than a matter of opinion.