Josh Hazlewood has signed ₹45.5 crore of IPL contracts since 2014 and earns ₹12.5 crore a season at Royal Challengers Bengaluru, who retained him for IPL 2026. He has also held a Cricket Australia central contract for years, including the 2026-27 list announced on 1 April 2026. Those are the figures that can be documented. A net worth figure cannot be — see the section below for why this page no longer publishes one.

2026 was the biggest year of his career on both counts. RCB beat Gujarat Titans by five wickets at the Narendra Modi Stadium on 31 May 2026 to become only the third franchise to defend an IPL title, a month after Hazlewood became the first overseas bowler to take 50 IPL wickets for the club. In August he took his 300th Test wicket, the ninth Australian to get there. He remains, at 35, the world’s ninth-ranked Test bowler.

What Is Josh Hazlewood’s Net Worth in 2026?

No net worth estimate for Josh Hazlewood is published with a stated method, and the figures in circulation do not agree with each other. The same aggregator sites variously give $6–8 million (roughly ₹50–67 crore), ₹60–80 crore, and about ₹80 crore ($9 million). Those are three different claims, and none of them shows its working. Hazlewood has never disclosed his finances, Cricket Australia does not publish individual retainer values, and a net worth is assets minus liabilities, which nobody outside his accountants can compute.

So this page publishes the earnings instead, because those are on the record. His IPL contracts from 2014 to 2026 are worth ₹45.5 crore before Indian tax and agent fees, or roughly $5.2 million at September 2026 exchange rates. On top of that sit a Cricket Australia retainer, international match fees for 78 Tests, 96 ODIs and 60 T20Is, Big Bash pay from ten seasons at the Sydney Sixers, and a state contract with New South Wales going back to 2008. A career total comfortably into eight figures in US dollars is a reasonable inference. Anything more precise than that is invention.

Correction, 19 September 2026: an earlier version of this page carried three incompatible net worth figures in three different places — “₹60 crore and ₹80 crore ($7–10 million)” in the opening line, “$6–8 million USD (approximately ₹50–67 crore)” under this heading, and “approximately ₹80 crore ($9 million)” in the Final Word. All three have been removed rather than one being chosen arbitrarily. Also removed: an unsourced claim that his yearly earnings “add up to more than ₹15.32 crore”.

How much does Josh Hazlewood earn from Cricket Australia?

Hazlewood is one of the 21 players on Cricket Australia’s 2026-27 men’s central contract list, announced on 1 April 2026, alongside fellow quicks Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Scott Boland. He is listed as NSW / St George Cricket Club. A central contract pays an annual retainer, with Test, ODI and T20I match fees paid separately on top.

Cricket Australia does not publish what any individual player is paid. Secondary reporting commonly describes a retainer band running from roughly A$400,000 at the bottom of the list to about A$2 million for Cummins as captain, but CA has never confirmed those numbers and they are repeated between sites without a primary source. Treat them as indicative of the shape of the pay scale, not as Hazlewood’s salary. An earlier version of this page stated a range of “$1.2 million to $2 million” as though it were established; it is not.

What is certain is that he is still being paid at the top end of the Australian game. He reached 300 Test wickets during the first Test against Bangladesh in August 2026, the ninth Australian bowler to do so, and the ICC’s rankings dated 15 September 2026 place him ninth in the world in Tests and 16th in ODIs. He missed the 2026 T20 World Cup after failing to recover from a knee injury in time.

How much does Josh Hazlewood earn from IPL 2026?

Hazlewood earned ₹12.5 crore from the Royal Challengers Bengaluru in IPL 2026, having been retained at the price RCB paid for him at the November 2024 mega auction. That is a different transaction from the ₹7.75 crore RCB spent on him at the 2022 mega auction, and the two have been confused on this page before.

Here is the detail worth knowing: ₹12.5 crore was ₹50 lakh short of making the list. The 32 best-paid players in IPL 2026 all earned ₹13 crore or more, so despite being the most decorated overseas bowler at the champion franchise, Hazlewood sits just outside the highest-paid IPL players of 2026. Nine players are level on ₹18 crore, which is the cap on what an overseas player can be paid from a mini-auction bid rather than the top of the table — that is Rishabh Pant on ₹27 crore.

Year	Team	Contract (₹ crore)	Notes
2026	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	12.50	Retained; RCB defended the title
2025	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	12.50	Bought at the Nov 2024 mega auction; 22 wickets in RCB’s first title
2024	—	—	Released by RCB before the auction; did not play
2023	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	7.75	Missed the early rounds through injury
2022	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	7.75	2022 mega auction
2021	Chennai Super Kings	2.00	—
2020	Chennai Super Kings	2.00	Bought at the 2020 auction
2015	Mumbai Indians	0.50	Retained, then pulled out on workload grounds
2014	Mumbai Indians	0.50	Bought at the 2014 auction; never selected
Total		45.50	Contract value, not money banked — see the note below

That ₹45.5 crore is the sum of the contracts, which is not the same as the sum of the payments. He never played a match in either Mumbai Indians season, withdrew from IPL 2015 partway through, and IPL pay is normally pro-rated against availability. The honest reading is that ₹45.5 crore is the ceiling of his IPL income to date, with the great majority of it — ₹25 crore of it — earned in the last two seasons alone.

He earned it. In RCB’s 2025 title run he took 22 wickets in 12 matches, the team’s leading wicket-taker, and bowled the final over of the final to defend 29 against Punjab Kings. In 2026 he took 13 wickets in 12 league games, and on 27 April at the Arun Jaitley Stadium he returned 4 for 12 from 3.3 overs against Delhi Capitals — his best figures in IPL history, and the spell that made him the first overseas bowler to reach 50 IPL wickets for the franchise.

Which companies does Josh Hazlewood have endorsement deals with?

No personal endorsement portfolio for Hazlewood is publicly documented. He is a notably private athlete with very little commercial visibility, and this page previously claimed that endorsements were a major source of his income while admitting in the next sentence that it could not name a single brand. That claim has been removed.

One appearance is on the record. The Indian bakery and snacking brand The Baker’s Dozen partnered with RCB for IPL 2026 and named Virat Kohli, captain Rajat Patidar and Hazlewood as the faces of its campaign. That is a franchise-level partnership rather than a personal contract, and its value has not been disclosed.

Assets, Lifestyle and Family Priorities

Hazlewood bought a home at Hunters Hill, on Sydney’s Lower North Shore, at auction in 2016 for $3.8 million. It was reported at the time as a newly built four-bedroom, three-bathroom house on a 500 square metre block, with a pool, a media room and an outdoor kitchen — his first purchase in the Sydney market, made when he was 25.

Previous versions of this page put the property’s current value at “$5 million to $6 million” and listed a BMW X6 among his assets. Neither had a source behind it, and both have been removed. A ten-year-old purchase price is a fact; what a house is worth today without a valuation or a sale is a guess, and guesses of that kind are how a ₹45 crore earnings record turns into an ₹80 crore net worth headline.

Personal Life

Hazlewood married Cherina Murphy Christian, a makeup artist he met at Oxley High School in Tamworth, in August 2022, in a private ceremony in the Hunter Valley. They had a son in November 2024.

Indian and Australian outlets give the boy two different names, and an earlier version of this page repeated both — one name in one paragraph and a different one two paragraphs later. Since no source that can be relied on settles it, and since the family keeps its private life private, this page states that the child exists and leaves the name out.

He was born in Tamworth on 8 January 1991 and raised in Bendemeer, a New South Wales country town of a few hundred people, which is where the nickname “the Bendemeer Bullet” comes from. He was picked for New South Wales at 17, the youngest fast bowler ever to play for the state, and made his ODI debut at 19.

Final Word

Hazlewood has spent a career being compared to Glenn McGrath, and the numbers have started to justify it: 303 Test wickets at 24.00, a 2015 World Cup won in front of a record 93,013 people at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the 2021 T20 World Cup, the 2023 World Cup, and back-to-back IPL titles with RCB in 2025 and 2026.

What that is worth in a single number, nobody outside his family knows. What it is worth on paper is ₹45.5 crore of IPL contracts, a Cricket Australia retainer he has held for most of a decade, and match fees from 234 international appearances. That is the honest answer, and it is a better one than a precise-looking figure with nothing behind it.

Updated 19 September 2026. Contract status verified against Cricket Australia’s 2026-27 men’s contracted players list (cricket.com.au, 1 April 2026) and RCB’s IPL 2026 retention; rankings against the ICC men’s player rankings, rank date 15 September 2026; IPL 2026 bowling figures against ABC News (28 April 2026); the 2015 World Cup final attendance against contemporaneous reports of the record 93,013 crowd.

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