Mohammad Amir Net Worth 2026: What His PSL Contracts Actually Tell Us

Mohammad Amir’s net worth in 2026 is estimated at $4.5–5 million by the two outlets that publish a figure and explain it, Sportysalaries and Ballreporter. The $20 million figure you’ll see on other sites has no source. Amir retired from international cricket in December 2024 and signed with Rawalpindi for PSL 2026 at PKR 5.40 crore (around $193,000), the first PSL fee of his career to be made public. This post breaks down every number with receipts.

Most sites slap a $20 million figure on Mohammad Amir’s name and move on. No breakdown. No contract data. Just a number that gets copy-pasted across the internet until it sounds true.

The real Mohammad Amir net worth story is actually more interesting. It’s the story of a career cut into three very different earning phases by a five-year ban, a comeback that never quite hit its full financial peak, and a post-retirement life now built almost entirely on T20 franchise money.

Amir retired from international cricket for the second time in December 2024, closing the book on a career that included the 2009 T20 World Cup, the 2017 Champions Trophy, and 271 international wickets (119 in Tests, 81 in ODIs and 71 in T20Is). But he kept playing T20 franchise cricket. In February 2026, Rawalpindi signed him for PKR 5.40 crore at the first-ever PSL player auction, the first PSL fee of his career on the public record, because every earlier season was paid through the draft’s category system. Here’s what all that actually adds up to.

What Is Mohammad Amir’s Net Worth in 2026?

Mohammad Amir’s net worth in 2026 is most reliably estimated at $4.5–5 million, the figure published by Sportysalaries and Ballreporter. It rests on his PSL pay, international match fees under PCB central contracts and endorsements, none of which he has disclosed in full. The widely repeated $20 million figure has no contract data or official disclosure behind it and should be treated with skepticism.

Two numbers float around on the internet: $4.5–5 million and $20 million. The lower estimate comes from sources that actually try to add up PSL salaries, PCB match fees, and endorsement income. The higher figure appears across news sites with no explanation of where it comes from.

Sportysalaries puts his net worth at $4.5 million, built from his cricket career, PSL contracts since 2016, and other leagues. Ballreporter’s more detailed 2025 estimate lands at $5 million, factoring in global T20 league fees, brand income and what it puts at a $100,000 Diamond-category PSL 2025 salary with Quetta Gladiators. The PCB never published individual draft fees, so that salary is Ballreporter’s figure, not an official one.

Until Amir or the PCB releases official financial disclosures, $4.5–5 million is the best-supported range, because unlike the $20 million figure it comes with a stated basis.

The Three Earning Phases: A Timeline That Explains Everything

Most net worth articles ignore the most important fact about Amir’s finances: a five-year ban erased what should have been his highest-earning years. His career breaks into three distinct phases.

Phase 1: Pre-Ban (2009–2010) Amir debuted at 17 and immediately looked like a generational talent. He took 19 wickets in the 2010 England series at an average of 18.3, the highest for any Pakistani in that tour. The ban hit before he could negotiate into the top earning brackets.

Phase 2: International Return (2016–2024) After serving his five-year ICC ban, Amir came back in January 2016. He peaked financially during the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, where his performance in the final against India (dismissing Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, and Shikhar Dhawan) boosted his market value. He played the first eight PSL seasons for Karachi Kings, then joined Quetta Gladiators for 2024 and 2025.

Phase 3: Franchise-Only (December 2024–Present) After his second retirement in December 2024, international match fees stopped. His income now depends entirely on T20 league contracts globally, with the PSL as his anchor. This is actually similar to what franchise cricket has done for players like Suryakumar Yadav who built wealth primarily through T20 deals.

Mohammad Amir’s Full PSL Salary History (2016–2026)

Until 2026 the PSL paid players through a draft in which every player sat in a category with a set salary or salary band, and individual fees were not published. Amir moved between the Gold, Diamond and Platinum categories, so his pay before 2026 can only be bracketed season by season. His PSL 2026 deal with Rawalpindi at PKR 5.40 crore (around $193,000), secured at the first-ever PSL player auction in Lahore on February 11, 2026, is the first fee of his PSL career on the public record.

Here is what the draft records show for each season:

PSL Season	Team	Category	Category salary or band (USD)
PSL 2016	Karachi Kings	Gold	$50,000
PSL 2017	Karachi Kings	Diamond	$70,000
PSL 2018	Karachi Kings	Platinum	$140,000–230,000
PSL 2019	Karachi Kings	Platinum	Not published
PSL 2020	Karachi Kings	Platinum	Not published
PSL 2021	Karachi Kings	Platinum	$130,000–170,000
PSL 2022	Karachi Kings	Diamond	$60,000–80,000
PSL 2023	Karachi Kings	Diamond	$60,000–80,000
PSL 2024	Quetta Gladiators	Platinum (wild card)	Not published
PSL 2025	Quetta Gladiators	Diamond	Not published
PSL 2026	Rawalpindiz	Auction	PKR 5.40 crore (~$193,000), his actual fee

Note: for 2016 to 2025 the last column is the published salary or salary band for his category, not his individual fee, which the PCB did not disclose. Wikipedia’s draft pages do not give the bands for 2019, 2020, 2024 and 2025. In 2024 Quetta used its wild card to place him in the Platinum category. The PSL replaced the draft with an open player auction in 2026, which is why that season is the only one with a known fee.

How Did the Spot-Fixing Ban Hurt His Earnings?

The ICC ban from 2010 to 2015 cost Amir an estimated five peak earning years in international cricket. No one has published a credible figure for what that cost him in match fees. The bigger loss was to his endorsement value: brands don’t sign players who aren’t playing.

Amir was 18 when the 2010 spot-fixing scandal ended his early career. He, Salman Butt, and Mohammad Asif were found guilty of deliberately bowling no-balls during the Lord’s Test against England. The ICC handed Amir a five-year ban.

From 2010 to 2015, he earned nothing from cricket at the top level. He came back just as the PSL launched in 2016, but entered its first draft in the Gold category rather than near the top. He missed the years when a Pakistan fast bowler in peak form would have commanded the highest PCB contract category and drawn serious sponsorship interest.

His endorsement deals with brands like PepsiCo and Puma came post-ban, when his market value had already been permanently reduced. Compare this to Shaheen Afridi, who has operated without any ban interruption and commands significantly higher franchise fees. The ban’s financial shadow is still visible in Amir’s net worth today.

Mohammad Amir’s Endorsements and Brand Income

Amir has never disclosed his endorsement income. Ballreporter lists PepsiCo and Puma among his sponsors, but no figures for either deal are public.

He is not in the endorsement bracket of Pakistani stars who never lost their prime years to a ban. Franchise cricket is the better comparison. Mohammad Nabi sat alongside him in the Diamond category at Karachi Kings in 2022, and Mustafizur Rahman went into the same Gold category as Amir at the first PSL draft in 2016. Both have earned most of their money from T20 leagues rather than brand deals.

His social media following gives him some organic reach for smaller deals, but without an active international career to generate headlines, that reach doesn’t convert into major contracts.

Mohammad Amir’s Wife, Family, and Personal Assets

In September 2016, Amir married Narjis Khan, a British-Pakistani who supported him through his legal battles during the spot-fixing case. She is a British citizen, and the couple has built roots in both Pakistan and the UK.

No reliable record of Amir’s property or other assets has been published, so every net worth estimate for him rests on his income alone.

He keeps a relatively modest public lifestyle compared to cricketers in higher net worth brackets. His family background is humble: he grew up in Changa Bangial, near Gujar Khan, the second youngest of seven children. According to Wikipedia, his father served in the Pakistan Army and later worked as a school watchman.

Final Word

Mohammad Amir’s net worth in 2026 sits around $4.5–5 million on the two published estimates that explain their basis. The $20 million figure repeated elsewhere isn’t backed by any data.

The shift from PCB match fees to franchise-only income is now complete. Whether his earnings grow from here depends on how long he keeps performing in T20 leagues.

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Updated 24 August 2026. The PSL 2026 contract is verified against the PCB’s official first-auction results and Wisden’s PSL 2026 squad lists, with the PKR 5.40 crore fee confirmed via ProPakistani’s auction report. Note that the franchise is listed by some outlets as Pindiz and by others as Rawalpindiz following its relocation and rebranding from Multan. The net worth figure is the published estimate of Sportysalaries and Ballreporter, not an official disclosure. Updated 5 October 2026: the PSL table is rebuilt from each season’s players-draft record on Wikipedia (Karachi Kings 2016–2023, Quetta Gladiators 2024–25, with the category salary or band rather than an individual fee); international wickets corrected to 271 and family details per Wikipedia; unsourced endorsement, asset and car claims removed.

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