Snooker players are amongst the richest sportspeople on the planet - a single World Championship title earns you a mind-boggling £500,000 and the winner of this week’s UK Championship will win a cool £250,000.
It’s a sport which has seen prize money soar in recent years thanks to television and sponsorship deals, with increasing interest in China and the Far East bolstering the tournament coffers even more.
Last year alone three players - Judd Trump, Kyren Wilson and Ronnie O’Sullivan - took home more than a million pounds in prize money.
It means that some of the greatest of all time who played in less lucrative times - including Stephen Hendry, Jimmy White and Steve Davis - aren’t even in the top five highest earners.
We’ve taken a look at the players who have won the most prize money in the history of the sport, with their true net worth being around 50 per cent more due to sponsorship, exhibition games, advertising deals, investments and media work.
Here are the 17 richest, as of December 2025, directly before the UK Championship.
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17. Ken Doherty - £3,881,082
Completing our list of the richest snooker players, with career earnings of £3,881,082 is Ken Doherty. Before retiring he became the only Irish player to win the World Championship in 1997 - becoming also the first to win both the world amateur and world professional title. | Getty Images