Can you guess who the highest-paid female athletes in 2025 are? At the top, it’s tennis star Coco Gauff with $33 million. Logic would suggest a world-famous athlete like Simone Biles would make the cut, but surprisingly she hasn’t. Forbes’ 10th spot goes to Jessica Pegula with $12.3 million. But according to ImpactWealth.org, Simone Biles’ net worth in 2025 is $25 million, $12.7 million higher than Pegula’s. So, why isn’t she on the list?

Recently, Forbes released The World’s Highest-Paid Female Athletes 2025, listing 20 stars from sports like rugby, alpine skiing, track and field, tennis, and more. But here’s the surprise: no gymnast made the cut.

And here’s why: last year, Simone Biles won three golds and a silver at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Since then, she hasn’t competed in any gymnastics events in 2025. Forbes’ list only counts athletes who were active during the year.

So, despite her massive fame and earning power, Biles didn’t make it this time, after making the list for each year since 2021.

To give you an idea, in 2021, she ranked 4th with around $10.1 million. In doing so, she became one of the first gymnasts in many years to make that list, even though the Tokyo Olympics didn’t go as planned. And then in 2022, she again made the list, ranked at 8th with about $10 million. For the 2023 list, she landed at number 16 with $7.1 million.

Then Biles came back for Paris 2024, dominating again both on and off the mats. This propelled her to 10th place on Forbes’ list with $11.2 million.  However, this isn’t the only list Forbes has left her off of this year.

Earlier this month, Forbes revealed their 30 Under 30 list, which shows 30 influential young people under the age of 30. Simone Biles, who is 28, wasn’t included. Why? Not because of her earnings or influence, but because Forbes doesn’t repeat athletes who have already been featured. Since she was previously included back in 2017, she was simply ineligible for the 2025 list.

Simone Biles shows the world there’s more than medals

This year, Forbes published their America’s Most Powerful Women in Sports 2025, and Simone Biles was listed at no. 18. And honestly, it’s no surprise. As the world’s most decorated gymnast, she had nothing left to prove in Paris 2024, but she went out there and proved it anyway.

Her Olympic comeback, which included a gold in the individual all-around and her 11th overall Olympic medal, made one thing crystal clear: Biles is in a league of her own.

Her accolades didn’t stop there. At the Laureus World Sports Awards 2025, she won the World Sportswoman of the Year Award, proving she’s still dominating the biggest stages. She also took home multiple ESPY Awards, including Best Female Athlete and Best Championship Performance, becoming the first two-time Best Female Athlete recipient since Ronda Rousey in 2014-15 (she first won in 2017).

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So the big question now is: will Simone Biles add more honors to her CV in 2026? Well, that’s more uncertain. She’s not competing anymore, but is rather often seen enjoying life, watching her husband play in NFL games, traveling, and just living her best life. Whether she plans a comeback is still unknown. Even though Biles herself hasn’t fully ruled out the idea of stepping back.

About the LA 28 Olympics, she said, “Because I’ve accomplished so much, there’s almost nothing left to do… I’m at a point in my career where I’m humble enough to know when to be done.” She also admitted, “My body is aging.” Still, there’s no official announcement from her about retirement.