Carlos Sainz earns a $13m base salary from Williams in 2026. That’s a 30% rise on the $10m he was paid in his first season at Grove and the highest base of his career.
Across 23 Grands Prix it comes to about $565k a race. His best year overall is still 2024, when a $9m bonus took his Ferrari income to $19m, but the reported $34.2m (€30m) a season from 2027 would move him well past it.
Names Carlos Oñoro as his manager in a January 2026 guide to the people who represent F1 drivers.
Sainz's Contract Covering 2025 and 2026
Sainz is racing this season on the deal Williams announced on July 29, 2024, less than six months after Ferrari confirmed Lewis Hamilton would take his seat. It began in 2025 and covers two seasons, so it ends when 2026 finishes. At $10m in the first year and $13m in the second, it’s worth about $23m in base salary, with bonuses paid on top according to results.
The original release promised 2025, 2026 and beyond, and on August 19, 2026 Williams confirmed a new multi-year agreement from 2027. Until then he stays on the $13m base.
Carlos Sainz's New Williams Contract to 2028
Sainz’s new Williams deal was confirmed on August 19, 2026 and starts in 2027. It runs to the end of 2028, according to reports that put his pay at around $34.2m (€30m) a season. If that figure is salary and he stays both years, the contract is worth $68.4m, more than two and a half times his current rate. The same reports mention a possible exit after the first season.
Bonuses could add around $3m, the same amount he earned in 2025, and push his potential income to $16m. Points drive that money, though, and seven so far in 2026 is a long way short of the 290 he scored in his final Ferrari season. He took the last point on offer in Baku with 10th place.
How Much Does Carlos Sainz Make Each Month?
PER MONTH
$1.08m
PER WEEK
$250k
PER DAY
$36k
PER HOUR
$1,484
Sainz’s $13m base averages out at $1.08m a month, $250k a week and $36k a day. Hit the $3m bonus scenario and the monthly figure climbs to $1.33m, or $696k for each of the 23 races. Williams doesn’t pay him in neat slices like this, so treat them as illustrative averages rather than actual payments.
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Insider · Issue 23
01 · The Last Race
Singapore by Salary
Pos
Driver
Pts
Salary
1
Max Verstappen
Red Bull
25
$70m
2
Charles Leclerc
Ferrari
18
$34m
3
Kimi Antonelli
Mercedes
15
$3.4m
4
Lando Norris
McLaren
12
$30m
5
Oscar Piastri
McLaren
10
$13m
6
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7
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What Each Point Now Costs Red Bull
Carlos Sainz Career Earnings by Team
Sainz has been paid by five F1 teams since his 2015 debut, starting on $277k at Toro Rosso. Each stint below shows what that team paid him and what he gave back on track. Those earnings sit behind his estimated $50m net worth.
2025-2026
Williams
$10m-13m
A Career-High Base at Grove
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POTENTIAL INCOME
$13m-16m
AGE
30-31
TEAM
Williams
Williams matched his last Ferrari base with $10m in 2025, and a 64-point season added a $3m bonus. His 2026 base equals that whole $13m total, the best of his career, although he’s only seven points so far.
SEASON
AGE
BASE SALARY
POTENTIAL INCOME
POINTS
POS
2026
31
$13m
$16m
7
18
2025
30
$10m
$13m
64
9
2021-2024
Ferrari
$8m-10m
Four Wins in Red
▾
POTENTIAL INCOME
$8m-19m
AGE
26-29
TEAM
Ferrari
Ferrari kept his base at $8m for three seasons and raised it to $10m in 2024. The bonuses were the real reward at $7m, $6m and $9m, as he won at Silverstone, Singapore, Melbourne, and Mexico City.
SEASON
AGE
BASE SALARY
POTENTIAL INCOME
POINTS
POS
2024
29
$10m
$19m
290
5
2023
28
$8m
$14m
200
7
2022
27
$8m
$15m
246
5
2021
26
$8m
$8m
164.5
5
2019-2020
McLaren
$4m-8m
Doubling His Money at McLaren
▾
POTENTIAL INCOME
$4m-8m
AGE
24-25
TEAM
McLaren
McLaren paid him $4m in 2019, a season capped by his first podium in Brazil. His base doubled to $8m for 2020, when he finished second at Monza and scored 105 points before leaving for Ferrari.
SEASON
AGE
BASE SALARY
POTENTIAL INCOME
POINTS
POS
2020
25
$8m
$8m
105
6
2019
24
$4m
$4m
96
6
2015-2018
Toro Rosso and Renault
$277k-1.13m
Starting Out Beside Verstappen
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POTENTIAL INCOME
$277k-1.13m
AGE
20-23
TEAM
Toro Rosso and Renault
He began on $277k at Toro Rosso in 2015, sharing the garage with Max Verstappen, and reached $1.13m in 2017, the year he switched to Renault for the final four races. His full 2018 Renault season is estimated at $750k.
Splits his 2025 earnings into a $10m Williams salary and a $3m bonus.
What Williams Gets for Sainz's $13m
Williams signed Sainz to lead its rebuild, and his $13m base buys a record nobody else in the team can match.
A proven winner. His four Grand Prix wins make him the only race winner in the Williams line-up.
Red Bull’s lone defeat of 2023. His Singapore win that year was the only race Red Bull lost all season, and it came from pole.
No pay cut to move. Williams matched the $10m base he left behind at Ferrari and then went to $13m for 2026.
Five teams of experience. Spells at Toro Rosso, Renault, McLaren, Ferrari, and Williams add up to 248 starts and 29 podiums in his F1 career stats.
Locked in to 2028. Williams moved in August 2026 to keep him for two more seasons on reported pay of around $34.2m (€30m) a year.
Sainz and Albon Pay Compared
Sainz’s $13m base is $1m more than Alex Albon earns, and the gap stays at $1m with both $3m bonus scenarios added, at $16m against $15m. He also leads their 2026 points battle 7 to 5, which turns around a 2025 season in which Albon beat him 73 to 64.
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Carlos Sainz Contract and Net Worth Questions
The contract Carlos Sainz is on now is worth about $23m in base salary, made up of $10m in 2025 and $13m in 2026. His next Williams deal, confirmed in August 2026, is reported at around $34.2m (€30m) a season. If that figure is salary and both years run, it would be worth $68.4m across 2027 and 2028.
Yes, Carlos Sainz is under contract for 2026. He’s in the second and final season of the two-year Williams deal announced on July 29, 2024, and it pays him a $13m base. His seat after that’s secure as well. Williams confirmed a new multi-year agreement on August 19, 2026 that starts in 2027.
Carlos Sainz’s current Williams contract ends with the 2026 season, and his new deal runs until the end of 2028, according to reports. Williams confirmed that multi-year agreement on August 19, 2026 and it starts in 2027, although the same reports mention a possible exit after its first season.
Williams is paying Carlos Sainz a $13m base salary in 2026, or roughly $565k per Grand Prix. A good season could add a $3m bonus and lift that to $16m. The figure changes a lot next year. Under his new contract, his reported pay from 2027 is around $34.2m (€30m) a season.
Carlos Sainz makes about $1.08m a month from his $13m Williams base salary in 2026, or roughly $36k a day. Hitting the $3m bonus scenario would lift his monthly figure to $1.33m.
Williams doesn’t pay him in neat slices like this, so treat them as illustrative averages.
At Ferrari, Carlos Sainz earned an $8m base salary in 2021, 2022 and 2023, rising to $10m in his final season in 2024. Bonuses made the bigger difference. He collected $7m in 2022, $6m in 2023 and $9m in 2024, so his best Ferrari year paid $19m, more than the $16m he could make at Williams this season.
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