Ring announcer are the ones who introduce the fighters and also results of the fight. How much a ring announcer earn in UFC. A report in 2019, released about the UFC ring announcers salaries, according to which a ($100,000) paid maximum and $10,000 minimum. Not all announcer get paid so much, some pay lower than $10k even in pay-per-views.
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UFC Ring Announcers
Salaries 2020
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Category
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Per Match Fees
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Main PPV Earnings
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PPV Bonus
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Yearly Salary
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Professional Announcers
(Contract Base)
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$5,000
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$50,000 – $100,000
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N/A
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$550k – $1 million
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Part-Time Announcers
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$2,500
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N/A
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N/A
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$20,000
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In the above table you can see the UFC ring announcers salaries for the year 2020. The information gathered from reported salaries in year 2018 and 2019. TSM Sportz revealed that a ring announcer at the end of each year $500,000. Sports Payroll report claimed ring announcer earn $250,000 maximum each year.
Professional Ring Announcers PPV Salary ($50,000) : Talking about professional ring announcers, they are on contract with sports organization. Such as Bruce Buffer, Joey Rogan and Michael Buffer, they selected for the top main pay-per-view event announcements earned between $50,000 – $100,000 at the end of the event claimed by sources.
Part Time Ring Announcers Salary ($2,500) : Entry-level ring announcers not on contract. They get selected for the announcement for the preliminary card and extra preliminary cards. Once they get 2-3 years of experienced offered contract by the professional sports organization such as (Bellator & UFC) for ring announcement and post fight interviews.
HIGHEST PAID UFC
RING ANNOUNCERS 2020
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Ring Announcers
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Per Match Fees
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Main PPV Fees
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Bonus
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Yearly Earnings
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$5,000
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$50,000 – $100,000
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N/A
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$1 million
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$5,000
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$50,000
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N/A
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$550,000
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$5,000
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$50,000
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N/A
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$550,000
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$5,000
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$50,000
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N/A
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$250,000
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$5,000
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$50,000
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N/A
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$250,000
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Who are the best paid Ring announcers in UFC. In 2019, a report claimed that Michael Buffer earn upto $50k for the ring announcement role during the UFC event main card event (Frank Mir vs Brock Lesnar). Bruce Buffer highest paid ring announcer, he earned $1 million in one year from Boxing, UFC, Wrestling and other sports announcement jobs. All information in the above table you see, gathered from trusted sources MMA, Boxing, and American sports.
Sources : TSM Sportz, Crunchy Sports, Sporting News, UFC Money Blog