Does anybody really know what Euro pro salaries are? I've looked for published reports and can't find any. I seriously doubt that the low level domestique guys on the UCI circuit make under $100K annually ($20-$30K sounds like the low end of US Pro dough) but I could be wrong. There are a handful of pros making over $1 million per year. Compare that to American baseball where the Mets just paid their 2nd string catcher - who played like 60 games last year and hit .244 - a baseball equivalent of a domestique - a one year deal @ $800,000. In baseball the AVERAGE salary is over a million. Not in pro cycling, even in Europe.

Pro cycling has to be the lamest paying big time sport. 'Big time'- yeah right. Maybe in Italy and France. For a few weeks a year. The rest of the world doesn't pay much notice.