Max Verstappen
Max Verstappen, a multiple Formula 1 world champion with Red Bull Racing, earns tens of millions per year from salary and bonuses.
Since January 1st
Year progress
68.9% of the year
How to read Max Verstappen's earnings per second
Verstappen's Red Bull Racing contract runs through 2028 and is structured with heavy performance incentives on top of a base salary, so unlike a fixed-salary employee — or even Hamilton's newer Ferrari deal — his real annual total moves with race wins, pole positions, and championship finishes. Layered on top is Verstappen.com, the direct-to-consumer merchandise brand he launched himself rather than licensing his name to an outside apparel company, plus long-standing personal deals with watchmakers and helmet sponsors that sit outside Red Bull's own commercial roster.
Because so much of Verstappen's pay is bonus-linked, comparing this page's rate across two different seasons is more instructive than comparing it to any other driver: a dominant championship year can push his real total well above the $120M benchmark used here, while an injury-hit or car-development-plagued season can pull it down noticeably. That variability is closer to how a commissioned salesperson or a professional boxer gets paid than how a salaried Formula 1 team engineer does.
Red Bull's own sponsor roster — Oracle's title sponsorship, the Honda RBPT engine partnership that powered the team's dominant early-2020s stretch — is team revenue that funds the operation Verstappen drives for; none of it flows to him personally, and headlines that cite team sponsorship totals alongside his name routinely conflate the two. Speculative reporting about a future move to Mercedes or elsewhere, and the signing bonus such a move might carry, is not reflected in this figure until an actual contract is confirmed.
As with most Formula 1 drivers, Red Bull has never published Verstappen's salary; the figure here is assembled from Forbes' athlete rankings and paddock-sourced contract reporting, which can disagree by tens of millions depending on how bonuses are modeled. The counter divides one rounded annual estimate evenly across 31,536,000 seconds, so it moves at the same pace whether he wins a sprint race on Saturday or retires from Sunday's grand prix.
Time Breakdown
$3.81
per second
$228.31
per minute
$13,698.63
per hour
$328,767.12
per day
$120,000,000.00
per year
How is this calculated?
// Annual amount
$120,000,000.00
÷ 31,536,000 seconds/year
// Per second
= $3.81/sec
The counter starts from January 1st of the current year and accumulates at a rate of $3.81 every second, based on Max Verstappen's estimated annual figure of $120,000,000.00.
Methodology
Estimated annual F1 salary plus performance bonuses, divided by 31,536,000 seconds for the per-second figure.
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Data Sources
F1 contract estimates, Forbes Athletes
https://www.formula1.com/Disclaimer
Earnings are approximate and may vary significantly year to year.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does Max Verstappen earn per second?
Using the $120M/year estimate on this page, the counter works out to roughly $3.81 per second on average (annual ÷ 31,536,000).
What is included in the annual estimate?
It is a rounded, gross-style mix of reported F1 salary, performance bonuses, and typical sponsorship/endorsement income reported in athlete lists. It is not a net take-home number.
Why can F1 earnings look inconsistent year to year?
Contracts can have large signing/loyalty bonuses, race and championship incentives, and sponsor deals that change when teams, titles, or marketing campaigns shift. Public reporting also varies in what it counts.