Nominal vs present value
Local display: $3.1m · Rebased to 2024 USD via US CPI-U
How the total breaks down
Ranking prize money. One of the biggest single-season prize-money hauls in tour history.
Endorsements & exhibitions. UK and international commercial income on top of the ranking tear.
Impact 93
- Pushed modern ranking prize money to a new practical ceiling
- Proved attacking snooker sold sponsors as well as packed arenas
- Showed a British No. 1 could clear mid-single-digit millions without Ding-scale China deals
Trump's 2019 season became the modern prize-money reference: win enough televised ranking events and the Order of Merit alone approaches what older stars needed exhibitions to reach.
Trump's 2019 world No. 1 campaign hoovered ranking purses until his season total near $2.5 million looked like a golf-adjacent professional living. It is the purest expression of the modern World Snooker Tour economy.