Enric Mas alone collected €176,800 for winning GC, and Movistar topped the team rankings with €181,300. Meanwhile three WorldTour outfits combined earned less than a single stage win pays out. Even Tadej Pogačar, who crashed out on stage 8, still banked €42,855 from three stage wins and eight days in red — more than double what those three teams made together. The Vuelta's prize pot is the third-richest in men's cycling, but that money never trickles down past the contenders.

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