WWE salaries: Triple H reveals minimum pay for main roster stars
Paul ‘Triple H’ Levesque has revealed the minimum salary that main roster WWE Superstars receive.
WWE held trials over WrestleMania weekend in Dallas, with collegiate athletes trying to earn contracts with the wrestling juggernaut.
The Athletic covered the trials, in which the publication also spoke about the pay package that WWE Superstars receive.
The write-up notes that once WWE Superstars arrive on either Monday Night Raw or Friday Night SmackDown, they are paid a minimum of $250,000 per year, as noted by Triple H.
“Levesque [Triple H] said wrestlers on the main roster for “Raw” or “SmackDown” earn at least $250,000 annually.”
You can find out more about WWE’s pay, including a look at the salaries of several top WWE stars, including Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns, by clicking right here.
Speaking of new WWE signings, the company has massively changed its recruitment strategy over the last few years.
While WWE previously would look to sign the best wrestlers from the independent scene, that isn’t the strategy anymore.
WWE now looks to sign young collegiate athletes, who they will train to work the WWE style at the Performance Center, moulding them in the way that they want.
Of course, some top independent talent will end up signing with the company, but it seems like they’ll be in the minority when it comes to new WWE signings from now on.
One of the latest WWE signings to a NIL contract was Gable Steveson, who officially inked a deal in September of last year.
Steveson was drafted to WWE Raw the following month, and made his first on-screen appearance since that move at WWE WrestleMania 38.
After just appearing on the first night, Steveson cut physical the following day, hitting Chad Gable with a suplex, as can be