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Damiano Caruso
Bahrain Victorious · Updated May 28, 2025
Age:38y 305d · Oct 12, 1987
Country:🇮🇹 Italy
Turned Pro:2009
Exp:18 years
UCI Rank:#185 · 497 pts
Contract:2020 – —
Pay vs outputValue Pay (+53)
PremiumBalancedValue
Output 59th % · Pay 6th %
Seasons
18 Years
Career Earnings1
€2.9M
Career Prize
€587K
Teams
3
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No reported salary figure is on file for this rider, so the estimate comes from our rubric — a function of team budget and rider UCI position.

  1. Team UCI rank (#7) places Bahrain Victorious into a budget bracket. Top teams pay more across the board.
  2. Rider UCI rank (#185) positions the rider on that team's pay curve. A top-3 rider on a top team earns near the bracket ceiling; a domestique earns closer to the bracket floor.

Bracket ceiling for this team: €4.0M.

2026 salary floor for this rider (veteran): €44K — the CPA-AIGCP-mandated WorldTour minimum. Source ↗

See the full methodology on the Rubric page. Have a better source? Send it in.

Rubric inputs
UCI rank#185
Team UCI rank#7
Pay bracketBracket 2
Bracket ceiling€4.0M
Rubric version0.3
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Earnings Per Year

YearAgeTeamCash
Total		Prize
Money		Total
Cumulative		Awards / Highlights
200922LIQU€112K€56K€168KTrofeo Comune di Cafasse +3 more wins
201023LIQU€112K€5K€285K
201124LIQU€112K—€397K
201225BAHR€163K€14K€574K
201326BAHR€163K€42K€779KMountains classification, Tour of Beijing +1 more win
201427BAHR€163K€13K€955K
201528BMC€204K€16K€1.2MTour de France
201629BMC€204K€40K€1.4MMountains classification, Vuelta a Andalucía +1 more win
201730BMC€204K€39K€1.7MTirreno–Adriatico +1 more win
201831BMC€187K€46K€1.9MTirreno–Adriatico +1 more win
201932BMC€187K€500€2.1M
202033BAHR€187K€22K€2.3MCircuito de Getxo
202134BAHR€159K€144K€2.6MStage 9 +1 more win
202235BAHR€159K€30K€2.8MGiro di Sicilia +2 more wins
202336BAHR€159K€38K€3.0M
202437BAHR€126K—€3.1M
202538BAHR€126K€33K€3.3MVuelta a Burgos
202639BAHR€204K€5K€3.5MIn progress

Earnings Per Team (career)

TeamYearsTotal Career Pay
BAHR Bahrain Victorious2012–2026 (10)€1.9M
BMC bmc-racing-team2015–2019 (5)€1.1M
LIQU liquigas-cannondale2009–2011 (3)€397K

Career-cumulative estimate allocated across the rider's teams. Past stints use the team history if known; otherwise all years are attributed to the current team. Endorsements and appearance fees aren't included. See Rubric for methodology.

External Links
Sources (1)
T3Daniel Benson's Cycling Substack
Damiano Caruso is tentatively placed in Benson's Grand Tour podium band of €1.8M-€2M+ per season (May 28, 2025 Substack) based on his Giro d'Italia 2021 2nd-place finish. Derived placement — Benson does not list Caruso by name. Result sits at the edge of the 5-year recency window. Currently competitive (UCI rank 98) but late career (age 38) and 2025 UCI points modest (60), so realized pay likely sits below the band — the rider's actual role at Bahrain Victorious has shifted toward super-domestique. Low confidence reflects the band-vs-realized-pay gap.
dnlbenson.substack.com ↗
Recent activity
2026 · Result
9th — Giro d'Italia
2025 · Result
5th — Giro d'Italia
2021 · Result
9th — Tour de Romandie
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