{"id":15881,"date":"2025-07-23T11:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T11:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/15881\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T11:56:07","slug":"george-russell-salary-net-worth-cars-and-bonuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/15881\/","title":{"rendered":"George Russell Salary, Net Worth, Cars and Bonuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGeorge Russell\u2019s 2025 Salary at Mercedes<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"241\" data-end=\"498\">George Russell is entering his fourth season with Mercedes, and his salary reflects that established role. For 2025, Russell earns $15 million, placing him 6th on the list of highest-paid drivers on the grid.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"500\" data-end=\"921\">When you look at where he came from, the jump is massive. Back at Williams, Russell was earning just $265,000 per year. Once he moved to Mercedes in 2022, things changed. His salary spiked to $5 million, then quickly climbed to $10 million later that year. By 2023, Forbes reported he was making $9 million, and in 2024, that figure jumped to $15 million, with an additional $8 million in bonuses.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"923\" data-end=\"1124\">There\u2019s no denying that Mercedes gave Russell more than just a race seat\u2014they gave him a long-term financial foundation. That contract runs through the end of 2025, and he\u2019s earning every dollar of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell\u2019s 2025 Salary at Mercedes George Russell is entering his fourth season with Mercedes, and his salary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-15881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}