Snooker players are amongst the wealthiest sportspeople on the planet - a single World Championship title earns you a hefty £500,000.
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.
We’ve taken a look at the players who have won the most prize money in the history of the sport.
It’s worth noting that their true net worth is probably at least 50 per cent more due to sponsorship, exhibition games, advertising deals, investments and media work.
Having said that, here are the 17 richest snooker players, as at the start of the World Snooker Championship 2025.
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5. Mark Selby
Four-time World Champion Mark Selby recently entered the top five all-time earners in snooker for the first time. Englishman Selby has won £8,485,679 in his career to date and still has plenty of winning years to come. | Getty Images
6. Mark Williams
Nicknamed the Welsh Potting Machine, Mark Williams has earned £8,298,854 since turning professional in 1992 in a career that has seen him lift the world title on three occasions. | Getty Images
7. Neil Robertson
The first non-Brititsh player to make this list, Australia's Neil Robertson is also the only player from outside the UK to have completed snooker's Triple Crown. That's helped him to earnings of £7,265,745. | Getty Images
8. Shaun Murphy
Since turning professional in 1998 Shaun Murphy has won prize money totalling £6,404,212. Nicknamed 'The Magician', he was world champion in 2005 - when he became only the third qualifier to win the title after Alex Higgins and Terry Griffiths. | Getty Images