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Vince McMahon stepped down from his position of power after a series of hush-money allegations rose against him, earlier this year. McMahon’s step down, opened the doors for Stephanie McMahon, Nick Khan, and Triple H to take over. Ever since, The Game took over as the creative head of the company; the product has seen a significant improvement.

However, prior to McMahon’s resignation, at WrestleMania 38, the company and the superstars were still bound to contract under Vince McMahon. Although under McMahon’s reign there were no financial complaints, there were a lot of creative disputes.

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WWE is one of the biggest wrestling promotions in the entire world. Reaching and working for WWE can be termed as a dream for all the budding professional wrestlers around the world. However, reaching that spot is not an easy work.

Earlier this year, during the WrestleMania 38 weekend, Triple H shed some light on how much WWE Superstars on the main-roster get paid. Although, he did not reveal their salary, he spoke about the minimum salary, a main-roster Superstar receives.

The Game stated a superstar on the main-roster can expect a base salary of $250,000. It is the base salary, and it goes up added with merchandise sale and PPV bonuses. Thus, it can be claimed that they pay handsomely to the WWE Superstars.

Earning such a massive amount of salary although rewarding, takes a lot of hard work and dedication. After years of training, and experience, do wrestlers get selected as WWE Superstars.

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Who are the some of highest paid WWE Superstars?

Reaching stardom in WWE is a massive feat. And often this means earning a massive sum of money. Top WWE Superstars such as John Cena and Brock Lesnar are two of the most paid WWE Superstars. However, apart from them there are several Superstars who are equally well paid, and deserving of every penny that they receive.

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Brock Lesnar earns a massive sum of $12 million, while John Cena is next in list with $8.5 million. Roman Reigns and Logan Paul each earn around $5 million, while Randy Orton earns a deserving $4.5 million. Bray Wyatt earns $4million, while AJ Styles, Kevin Owens, Seth Rollins and Goldberg each earn $3million each.

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Shounak Chakrabarti is WWE writer at EssentiallySports. With a degree in Journalism, he wants to stand tall as an objective journalist. An avid fan of wrestling from childhood, Shounak has followed the sport from its very core and Seth 'Freakin' Rollins just happens to be his favorite wrestler.
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