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ORLEANS, France (Velo) – As the 2024 Tour de France approaches its halfway stage, the split in earnings is getting wider.

Race officials provided the first prize money update going into Monday’s rest day, and the squad at the top of the list is a big underdog with Intermarché-Wanty.

“We are the team with the smallest budget here,” performance manager Aike Visbeek told Velo after stage 3.

Winning pays off: the team has had two stage victories for their Eritrean sprint sensation and green jersey wearer Biniam Girmay, contributing to it leading the way, with 43,880 euros.

An individual stage victory nets €11,000. (The U.S. dollar is about 10 percent more than the euro right now).

Given the marauding triumph of Tadej Pogačar into Valloire and the Slovenian slayer’s stint in the yellow jersey, UAE Team Emirates, one of the wealthiest teams, is second with 38,460 euros.

Team DSM-Firmenich postNL are third on 25,010 euros, already double what the team won from the entirety of last year’s race.

Heading further down the money list, without a stage win so far, the team of defending champion Jonas Vingegaard Visma-Lease a Bike is only the 17th of the 22 teams on the race, having made a paltry €8,300.

At the basement, Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team have collected a meager €2,390. They have only had one top-10 finish, with Sam Bennett finishing ninth on stage 3.

The biggest payouts will come at the finish in Nice, where the podium finishers and jersey winners receive riches.

The overall winner of the Tour de France takes home €500,000, the runner-up receives €200,000 and third place gets €100,000.

The winner of the points classification and King of the Mountains classification will receive €25,000, while the best young rider pockets €20,000. The same amount goes to the Super Combativity rider.

The total purse for this year’s Tour is €2,301,200.

When you consider that pro cycling prize money is split among teammates, with mechanics, soigneurs and staffers all taking a cut, it’s not a lot of money for three weeks of intense racing.

There is lots more racing to be done and cash to be won. The Tour will update the prize money list on the second rest day as well as after the finish.