How Long It Takes For A Pro MMA Fighter To Earn Your Salary

About the compare salary to MMA fighter calculator

This is a calculator made for entertainment, you can enter your annual salary and find out how it compares to the earnings of professional MMA fighters.

It’ll consider your salary and compare it against the chosen fighter to show you how many fights, rounds, minutes, and seconds it takes for each fighter to earn it inside the octagon (not including earnings outside of fighting).

The earnings are compared against a fighter’s last two pro MMA matchups, assuming two fights per year, five rounds per fight, and 25 minutes per fight.

How long it takes most popular MMA fighters to earn the average US salary

I compared the average US salary ($76,370) against how much these famous fighters earn, some of these results might shock you:

Conor McGregor: 5 seconds in the octagon
Khabib Nurmagomedov: 17 seconds in the octagon
Jon Jones: 51 seconds in the octagon
Alexander Volkanovski: 1 minute, 17 seconds in the octagon
Max Holloway: 3 minutes, 28 seconds in the octagon
Nate Diaz: 2 minutes, 4 seconds in the octagon
Aljamain Sterling: 1 minute, 35 seconds in the octagon
Islam Makhachev: 1 minute, 53 seconds in the octagon
Leon Edwards: 3 minutes, 10 seconds in the octagon
Israel Adesanya: 39 seconds in the octagon
Colby Covington: 2 minutes, 15 seconds in the octagon
Paddy Pimblett: 1 round (5 minutes) and 48 seconds in the octagon
Khamzat Chimaev: 2 minutes, 45 seconds in the octagon
Stephen Thompson: 1 round (5 minutes) and 13 seconds in the octagon

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How much MMA fighters make annually

I’ve put together this interactive chart that shows how much each of these fighters typically make per year (assuming two fights in a single year):

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Credits

"UFC 129" User Msmirlie2863, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

"Conor McGregor in 2015" Andrius Petrucenia on Flickr (Original version) UCinternational (Crop), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

"Khabib Nurmagomedov in Uzbekistan (2020-12-01) 10" Olympic.uz, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

"Jon Jones being interviewed" K.O. Artist Sports, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

"Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 232" MMAnytt, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

"Max Holloway, 2018" Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from Washington D.C, United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

"Nate Diaz Oct 2019" MMAnytt, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

"Aljamain Sterling" MMAnytt, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

"Islam Makhachev2022" Новости Дагестан, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

"Leon Edwards 2021" Anything Goes With James English, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

"Israel Adesanya at UFC 230" MMMAnytt, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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"UFC Star Paddy The Baddy Pimblett tells his story (cropped)" James English, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

"KhamzatChimaev(fighter)" MMAnytt, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

"From cancer to company commander 130802-M-AR522-306 (cropped)" (Stephen Thompson) Cpl. Devin Nichols, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Salaries collected from MMASalaries.com