Nominal vs present value
Local display: $2.1m · Rebased to 2024 USD via US CPI-U
How the total breaks down
Ranking prize money. World titles and ranking-event dominance at the height of his No. 1 years.
Endorsements & exhibitions. British commercial deals layered on unprecedented Crucible success.
Impact 95
- Became snooker's first consistent near-million USD season earner
- Proved sustained World dominance paid better than one-off fame
- Raised the prize-money expectations of every later world No. 1
Hendry's mid-1990s seasons made million-dollar years thinkable for a snooker professional. The Crucible remained sacred, but the ranking calendar around it finally paid like a real tour.
By 1995 Hendry had turned World Championship dominance into a business. Roughly a million US dollars in peak-year earnings — prize money plus deals — set the 1990s ceiling and gave the next generation a number to beat.