As the largest wrestling promotion in the world, WWE brings in millions of viewers who want to see superstar wrestlers perform in the ring. Cheering on their favorites while booing their opponents, fans love the spectacle that is professional wrestling, and WWE provides the best escape. This type of entertainment strikes the perfect balance between violent fights that keep viewers on edge and breaking the seriousness with some comedy from their performers.
Just like any other high-profile sports player, these WWE wrestlers get paid a pretty penny for what they do. These fighters are athletes who need to keep their bodies in top shape in order to perform the stunts they do and to keep up appearances even after the fights are over. While WWE events are scripted, there is still the very real potential for entertainers to accidentally (or intentionally) stray from their script and shock viewers.
WWE has said that the average wrestler on their main roster makes around $500,000 per year while their top performers usually make well into the seven-figure range. Thanks to WWE Wrestlers basic salary packages being leaked online this year, we can get an even closer look at how much the top ten WWE wrestlers make.

10. *Ray Mysterio – $985,000



Until February of 2015, Mexican-American
professional wrestler Oscar Gutierrez, also
known as Rey Mysterio Jr. , was
making $985,000 per year on a five-year
contract. In addition to his salary, the wrestler
received a four percent bonus for high
merchandise sales, travel, and accommodations.
Mysterio has been receiving some bad press
lately for the unfortunate death of his opponent
Pedro AguayoRamírez, who died from an injury
during a wrestling match against Mysterio. The
wrestler is also rankling some fans for charging
$20,000 for indie signing appearances, but at 40
years old, wrestling has to be taking quite the
toll on his body.

9. Dolph Ziggler – $900,000





Nick Nemeth, otherwise known by his ring
name DolphZiggler makes $900,000 a year with
only a three-year contract and gets his travel
and accommodations paid for. Being named
Rolling Stone’s “WWE Wrestler of the Year”
probably didn’t hurt his paycheck either. As
one of WWE’s most popular performers, he has
made it pretty clear that he isn’t particularly
happy with WWE. After first signing a contract
with WWE in 2004, Ziggler has gained a lot of
momentum in the ring and was displeased
with his recent position at the Royal Rumble,
one of WWE’s premier pay-per-view events.
His frustration should be taken seriously,
seeing as how he has also teased fans recently
about possibly quitting WWE.

8. Big Show – $1.2 million




Paul Donald Wight, otherwise known as Big
Show , makes $1.2 million with only a three-
year contract and gets a personal tour bus
from WWE all to himself. Why would he get
his own tour bus, you may ask? It might be
because flying is a problem for someone as big
as Big Show. Or it might be that he is the
seven-time world champion and the first
wrestler to hold the WCW World Heavyweight
Championship, the WWF/E Championship, the
ECW World Championship, and the World
Heavyweight Championship all at the same
time. Big Show is a big name not only in WWE,
but also in television and movies. He has had
roles in movies such as Star Trek: Enterprise
and The Waterboy and television series like
Burn Notice and Royal Pains. Clearly, this
wrestler knows how to make money.

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7. Sheamus – $1.3 million



tephen Farrelly, or Sheamus as he’s known in
the ring, makes $1.3 million from a five-year
contract and gets his travel and
accommodations paid for. Sheamus was the
first Irish-born WWE wrestler to win the WWE
Championship and is the villain that viewers
love to hate when they tune in to watch him
fight. Despite the hate he gets, Sheamus
embraces the role whole-heartedly, leading to
his high-figure salary. This is pretty impressive
for someone who only came on WWE’s scene in
2009. Reports have stated that Sheamus and
Triple H are also pretty good friends and gym
buddies, making WWE want to hold on to him
even tighter.

[b 6. Randy Orton – $1.6 million ][/b]




Randy Orton makes $1.6 million per year
from a five-year contract and gets a percentage
of merchandise sales, travel, and
accommodations paid for, as well as a share of
PPV revenue. Another villain of WWE, this
professional wrestler is known for his blatant
disrespect of veteran wrestlers and being a bit
too full of himself at times. His solid
performances and flair for distasteful remarks
make him a hit for WWE. However, a
controversy surrounding his involvement with
steroid use clashed with WWE’s Talent
Wellness program. If he wants to keep getting
paid as highly as he does, Orton may want to
back off the steroids.

5. The Undertaker – $2.25
million



Mark Calaway, also known as The Undertaker ,
makes $2.25 million per year from a five-year
contract and only works part time. He also gets
a seven percent bonus for high merchandise
sales, his travel and accommodations paid for,
and a share of revenue from PPV if it’s
featured on a main event. The Undertaker has
worked for WWE since 1990, making him the
longest-tenured performer on the WWE roster
and a big reason why he has such a large
paycheck. The Undertaker isn’t expected to
remain in the ring very much longer and some
suspect that WrestleMania 32 in Texas may be
his last match.

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4. Brock Lesnar – $2 million




Brock Lesnar makes $2 million per year from
a two-year contract (which expired in March of
2015), in addition to a 3.25% bonus for high
merchandise sales, free travel, and a share of
revenue from PPV. This professional wrestler
is also a mixed martial artist and a four-time
WWE World Heavyweight Champion. In
addition to this, Lesnar played in the
preseason of NFL when he signed with the
Minnesota Vikings, but was cut before the
season started. WWE fans rejoiced when he
returned to WWE in 2012 after an eight-year
break and now continues to headline many
WWE pay-per-view events.

3. Triple H – $2.12 million




Paul Michael Levesque, otherwise known as
Triple H , makes $2.12 million per year from a
five-year contract. He also acts as a WWE
executive and talent contract, which brings in a
lot of money. As the person who hires and
fires WWE Superstars and Divas, this
professional wrestler makes regular
appearances in WWE programs as both a
wrestler and an authority figure. He and fellow
WWE executive Stephanie McMahon make a
powerful duo and are so well known to fans of
WWE that it is no surprise that Triple H’s
salary is as high as it is.

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2. John Cena – $2.75 million




You might think that John Cena would bring
in the most money as the current star of WWE,
but you would be mistaken. Cena makes $2.75
million from a five-year contract, gets seven
percent of merchandise sales and a hefty
amount from PPV that make his earnings more
than what is documented. Cena’s salary seems
to be appropriate, however. According to Big
Show, Cena is constantly working and doesn’t
skip his workouts for anything. Big Show said
that, “We’ll fly 16, 18 hours to Australia, to the
Middle East, Abu Dhabi or something like that–
John hits, right away he goes to the gym. No
matter how little sleep he’s had, he goes to the
gym every day.” Clearly, Cena takes his job
seriously.

[b] 1. The Rock – $3.5
million[b]





While John Cena is the current star of WWE
and has frequent appearances in the ring,
the honor of highest paid WWE wrestler
goes to The Rock, who makes roughly $3.5
million a year in addition to income from
merchandise sales and PPV revenue. This is
particularly impressive considering that The
Rock is only a part time performer with a
3-year contract. The Rock is extremely well
known both in and out of the wrestling
world thanks to his acting career and is a
New York Times Best Selling Author.
Although he is the highest paid WWE
wrestler, this source of wealth seems to be
pocket change compared to his other
sources of income.

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