CHICAGOSUMO

The top 70 guys get around 8k-12k USD a month, and the lower rankers get maybe 600-800 a month, an allowance basically. But the stables provide room and board for the lower guys, although the higher ranked guys like to get their own apartments and girlfriends and such. There are a bunch of other ways they get money too, incentives for attending the tournaments, money for wins, big time businessmen take them out and buy them gifts, plus money for ads and events. I came across this forum when doing a search for sumo. I don't know if I am allowed to promote it here, but there a bunch of clubs in the US where one can do sumo now. We even have Yama, a former pro, coaching us sometimes.