Dragging this across from the SL ‘no content’ thread.
The PTO have never paid travel from elsewhere; just from and back to the airport. We don’t know whether they’ll fund the ‘all found’ Wednesday-Monday hotel plus as they did in 2024 and have been in 2025. Contracted athletes have received ‘effectively’ appearance money for each of their minimum contracted races (4+1) this year. Wildcards aiui have received a base [edit] $2k plus race prize money.
Given finishing #20 gets an athlete $3500, that a fair payout for a “2nd tier pro” compared with what a similar performance in a silver/bronze tier 70.3 might get you. Take someone like Kate Curran and an example who just finished #2 at Cascais on Sunday, winning $2000. Last year as well as five IM Pro Series 70.3s (more than any other pro btw) she raced three T100s as a wildcard (#15, #10 and #17 in GF) and won an average of $3k so with the $2k per race $15k total - about the same as for her five 70.3s. NB for those she will have had outgoings of at least $1k each race for in venue expenses.