How much do AMA riders make in off-season Supercross races?

With Paris, AusX Open and WSX plus the Australian Supercross series all going on in a busy off-season, Justin Brayton has lifted the lid on what he got paid for doing similar races and what the very elite guys are getting now – it’s eye-watering money!

Brayton revealed on the AC JB podcast: “I mean, for me, once I moved to the 450, I would get anywhere between $40 grand and $50 grand to go race each race. I wouldn’t get bonuses or anything, so most of the time I would get 40 or 45 grand plus expenses to go. And I would piece together two or three of those. And then once I started doing Australia, it was more like a salary. So let’s just say I did five races and won the championship, it would be $200, $250 grand for an off season vacation. 

“So for me, it was always really good and now the numbers that you’re talking about, I’m hearing anywhere from $100 to $250 grand PER RACE for these guys, you know, the the high level guys. So it’d be hard to pass up a couple of hundred grand or 250 grand to go do just do one weekend of racing.”