Nominal vs present value
Local display: $0.8m · Rebased to 2024 USD via US CPI-U
How the total breaks down
PSA prize money. World Open and PSA Tour earnings at the height of his title run.
Exhibitions & support. Continued reliance on appearances beyond official purses.
Impact 88
- Showed the 1990s PSA calendar still needed exhibitions to pay champions
- Kept Pakistani men's squash commercially central after Jahangir
- Pushed World Open counts without transforming the pay scale
Jansher's peak proved successive Pakistani greats could not break squash's pay glass alone. Profile stayed high; purses crawled.
Jansher's early-1990s peak nudged squash earnings upward to roughly $350,000 without changing the sport's class. World Opens stacked; tennis-scale money never arrived.