2026 World Fitness Project Pro Card Payouts Revealed — Top Contract Hits $80K
Although the 2025 World Fitness Project (WFP) season is still underway, with the Finals in Copenhagen, Denmark, scheduled for December 18-21 – just over a month away – a major announcement has been made about the structure of the 2026 season.
Remind me: The new league introduced a unique payout system for our sport. The WFP provided twenty men and twenty women with “Pro Card” status, meaning they would receive a guaranteed salary.
- This salary is the minimum that athletes can earn. Additional prize money from events is paid out once the minimum is reached.
Although the prize purses for the 2025 season were announced early, salaries for Pro Card holders were not.
- For the 2026 season, the WFP team has issued a press release outlining its payout schedule for Pro Card holders and providing additional details.
Some changes: For 2025, all Pro Card holders were guaranteed a ticket to compete at the Finals, but this won’t be the case in 2026.
- The press release states: “There is no automatic qualification for the WFP Finals. Qualification for the finals will be based on cumulative points earned from WFP Tour Stops. Athletes must compete in Tour Stops throughout the season to earn points for the Finals.”
In other words, if a Pro Card holder has to withdraw from an event due to personal reasons or injury, there’s no guarantee they will qualify for the Finals.
2026 Pro Card Contract Payout Schedule
A total of $1,268,000 will be paid out to the top 20 men and women in Pro Card contracts for the 2026 season.
- $80,000
- $70,000
- $60,000
- $55,000
- $50,000
- $45,000
- $40,000
- $35,000
- $30,000
- $25,000
- $20,000
- $20,000
- $20,000
- $15,000
- $15,000
- $12,000
- $12,000
- $10,000
- $10,000
- $10,000
Along with the salary, athletes will get a stipend to cover estimated travel and lodging costs.
- “We are excited about the 2026 season structure, having built and molded it from the current season,” Jackson Terry, WFP Director of Operations, stated in the release. “We feel like the updates to the Pro Card requirements for 2026 help define the season more clearly for the athletes who compete in it.”
Will Moorad, WFP Director of Sport, shared his sentiment as well.
- “This structure is what we were hoping for when we started the WFP. This is what professionalizing the sport of competitive, functional fitness looks like. These are real contracts, with real salaries and pay structures based on performance.”
The 2026 Pro Card order will be based on the final standings of the 2025 season (i.e., the top point earner in the inaugural season will receive an $80,000 contract for 2026, the second-highest will get a $70,000 contract, and so on).
The bottom line: This is the first official announcement about the upcoming season, with many questions still unanswered. The season schedule and event prize purses have not yet been released; however, WFP remains the only organization currently offering a guaranteed salary for its competitors.
- Moorad: “These are the types of things that I wish I had when I was competing. We got here because of the open dialogue with athletes about what they wanted, and that is exciting for me because we are making it happen. This is just the start. We will continue to evolve the contracts, the pay structure, the Pro Card, and the opportunity it presents for the future.”
