Prize money in PDC events will be close to the £5 million mark in 2010, with £1,023,600 on offer at the 33 players championships throughout the year, and a further £252,800 at the 8 UK Open regionals along with a cool £1 Million at the Ladbrokes.com World Championships, £ 400,000 at the Whyte & Mackay Premier League & The World Matchplay, £350,000 World Grand Prix, £250,000 Players Championships, £200,000 UK Open & European Championships and over £175,400 at the Championship League Darts. With further events on the horizon the £5 Million mark will certainly be close.

Increases in 2010 are with the further £50,000 invested by The PDPA into the Players Championship Finals, there are also increases in all the players championships and UK Open qualifiers throughout the season.

PDC Promoted events since the WDC was formed, this is only events that have been wholly promoted by the PDC – ranked or unranked.  

1          Phil Taylor                     England            £3,194,656
2          Raymond v Barneveld   Holland           £   834,954
3          James Wade                 England            £   694,801
4          John Part                      Canada             £   560,237
5          Terry Jenkins                England             £   518,687
6          Colin Lloyd                   England            £   507,908
7          Peter Manley                 England           £   463,895
8          Dennis Priestley            England            £   450,853
9          Adrian Lewis                 England            £   421,999
10         Wayne Mardle              England            £   387,235
11         Ronnie Baxter              England             £  372,704
12         Mervyn King                 England             £  354,979
13         Roland Scholten           Holland              £  353,392
14         Kevin Painter                England             £  339,414
15         Andy Hamilton              England             £  304,130
16         Mark Dudbridge             England            £  268,604
17         Mark Walsh                  England            £  252,332
18         Colin Osborne               England            £  238,497
19         Denis Ovens                  England            £  229,754
20         Alan Tabern                   England            £  222,333

With the amount of money now invested into prize money by The PDC, this table will increase dramatically over the next few years.