United States · 31 · Climber · PCS rank 42
Sepp Kuss
How this estimate is made. Visma | Lease a Bike's riders' wage pool is about €24.2M (budget €50M × 48%, the rider-wage share rising with budget). After fixed reported salaries, the rest is split by a value score — 0.6 × 2026 PCS points + 0.4 × career points per season, raised to the power 1.15 — with an age factor of 1.0 at age 31. Half of the estimate comes from the same allocation run league-wide, so leaders of small teams aren't over-priced. Floor for this rider: €194k. Typical error on a single rider is ±40%, which is the range shown above. Full method.
Career by season
Turned pro in 2018. PCS points, race days and results per season from ProCyclingStats. Prize money is what the rider generated at WorldTour and ProSeries races (PCS per-race prize lists, 2022 onwards) — pooled with the team, not kept. Generated since 2022: €286k.
| Season | Team | Level | PCS pts | Race days | Wins | Podiums | Prize money generated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Visma | Lease a Bike | WorldTour | 626 | 74 | 1 | 3 | €34k |
| 2025 | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | WorldTour | 527 | 72 | — | 1 | €16k |
| 2024 | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | WorldTour | 479 | 56 | 2 | 3 | €26k |
| 2023 | Jumbo-Visma | WorldTour | 1150 | 77 | 2 | 4 | €203k |
| 2022 | Jumbo-Visma | WorldTour | 350 | 58 | — | 1 | €6,645 |
| 2021 | Team Jumbo-Visma | WorldTour | 628 | 73 | 1 | 2 | n/a |
| 2020 | Team Jumbo-Visma | WorldTour | 570 | 54 | 1 | 1 | n/a |
| 2019 | Team Jumbo-Visma | WorldTour | 223 | 73 | 1 | 1 | n/a |
| 2018 | Team LottoNL-Jumbo | WorldTour | 290 | 77 | 4 | 4 | n/a |
| 2017 | Rally Cycling | Continental | 225 | 32 | — | 3 | n/a |
| 2016 | Rally Cycling | Continental | 0 | 1 | — | — | n/a |
Prize money before 2022 was not collected. Salary estimates by season will follow once the 2021–2025 rosters are in.
Kuss in context
Visma | Lease a Bike — top earners Team →
- 1Jonas Vingegaard€5M Reported
- 2Wout van Aert€4M Reported
- 3Matteo Jorgenson€1.7M Model
- 4Matthew Brennan€1.7M Model
- 5Christophe Laporte€1.5M Model
- 6Sepp Kuss€1.4M Model
Same salary band
- Giulio CicconeLidl-Trek · 879 pts€1.4M
- Biniam GirmayNSN Cycling Team · 758 pts€1.4M
- Tobias Halland JohannessenUno-X Mobility · 1367 pts€1.4M
- Jasper StuyvenSoudal Quick-Step · 730 pts€1.4M
- Jonathan MilanLidl-Trek · 844 pts€1.4M
- Matthew RiccitelloDecathlon CMA CGM · 864 pts€1.4M
Snapshot 13 September 2026. Salary is a gross base-salary figure for the 2026 season in euros; it excludes bonuses, prize money and personal sponsors.