Career prize money · 2026

The 30 highest-earning CS2 pros of all time

Ranked by HLTV-verified career prize money across CS:GO and CS2. Numbers are total tournament earnings, not salary — organisational pay isn’t public. Each row links to the player’s full setup: mouse, keyboard, monitor, sensitivity, crosshair.

Top 30 total: $42,092,757Average: $1,403,092

1
apEX
Dan Madesclaire · Team Vitality · IGL
$2,641,887
2
ropz
Robin Kool · Team Vitality · Lurker
$2,585,227
5 majors
3
karrigan
Finn Andersen · Falcons Esports · IGL
$2,178,977
4
device
Nicolai Reedtz · 100 Thieves · AWPer
$2,171,978
5
ZywOo
Mathieu Herbaut · Team Vitality · AWPer
$2,167,560
3 majors
6
Magisk
Emil Reif · Free Agent · Rifler
$2,060,532
7
rain
Håvard Nygaard · 100 Thieves · Rifler
$1,889,907
8
NiKo
Nikola Kovač · Falcons Esports · Rifler
$1,842,696
9
Twistzz
Russel Van Dulken · FaZe Clan · Rifler
$1,840,814
1 major
10
s1mple
Aleksandr Kostyliev · BC.Game · AWPer
$1,746,722
5 majors
11
electroNic
Denis Sharipov · BC.Game · Rifler
$1,689,238
12
flameZ
Shahar Shushan · Team Vitality · Entry
$1,585,784
13
b1t
Valeriy Vakhovskyi · Natus Vincere · Rifler
$1,559,555
14
FalleN
Gabriel Toledo · FURIA · Rifler
$1,466,038
15
mezii
William Merriman · Team Vitality · Rifler
$1,456,208
16
sh1ro
Dmitry Sokolov · Team Spirit · AWPer
$1,380,619
1 major
17
broky
Helvijs Saukants · FaZe Clan · AWPer
$1,319,177
1 major
18
huNter-
Nemanja Kovač · G2 Esports · Rifler
$1,084,354
19
chopper
Leonid Vishnyakov · Team Spirit · IGL
$1,019,951
20
Spinx
Lotan Giladi · MOUZ · Rifler
$1,000,875
21
m0NESY
Ilya Osipov · Falcons Esports · AWPer
$949,710
3 majors
22
donk
Daniil Kraskovskii · Team Spirit · Rifler
$911,592
2 majors
23
frozen
David Čerňanský · FaZe Clan · Rifler
$780,869
24
jks
Justin Savage · FlyQuest · Rifler
$715,393
25
stavn
Martin Lund · Ninjas in Pyjamas · AWPer
$709,040
26
Ax1Le
Sergey Rykhtorov · BetBoom Team · Rifler
$705,903
2 majors
27
cadiaN
Casper Møller · OG Esports · IGL
$705,533
28
torzsi
Ádám Torzsás · MOUZ · AWPer
$651,568
29
yuurih
Yuri Boian · FURIA · Rifler
$639,946
3 majors
30
KSCERATO
Kaike Cerato · FURIA · Rifler
$635,104
2 majors

By country (top 30)

Combined prize money for each country’s players in the top 30.

Denmark· 5 players$7,826,060
Russia· 6 players$6,657,013
France· 2 players$4,809,447
Ukraine· 2 players$3,306,277
Bosnia & Herzegovina· 2 players$2,927,050
Brazil· 3 players$2,741,088
Israel· 2 players$2,586,659
Estonia· 1 player$2,585,227

Methodology: career earnings are HLTV-verified tournament prize money totals, divided equally per roster at each event. Doesn’t include salaries (private), streaming revenue, sponsorships, or skin trading. Real take-home is materially higher than what shows here.

Not seeing a player? We currently have HLTV earnings on file for 38 pros; the rest of the database has setup but not earnings data. Re-scrape lands monthly.