What does Team USA pay an athlete for an Olympic gold medal?

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$37,500 for gold, $22,500 for silver and $15,000 for bronze, paid through the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee's Operation Gold program. The rates have not moved since Beijing in 2022. Singapore pays about twenty times as much for the same medal.

Singapore's award has been collected exactly once. Swimmer Joseph Schooling won the 100-meter butterfly at Rio 2016, beating Michael Phelps, for the country's first and still only Olympic gold.

Team USA pays $37,500 for an Olympic gold. Singapore pays about twenty times that. Only one Singaporean has ever won one.

Source: US Olympic & Paralympic Committee · checked Feb 2026