New York (AP) – Paige Bueckers will receive roughly the same salary as Caitlin Clark obtained last year as the first choice of WNBA draft while players’ salaries continue to be a subject of conversation.
Like the CHOICE COUNTEMED N ° 1 in Monday WNBA DraftThe Bueckers agreement is worth more than $ 78,000 in basic salary. Discussions between the League and the Union of Players continue on an agreement when the current collective negotiation agreement expires next season.
The players said that there could be a lockout if their salary requests do not respond. The spotlights on the wages of WNBA players became brighter after Clark and Angel Reese spoke a lot about recruits’ income last season.
The vice-president of the WNBA players’ union, Napheesa Collier, said that “no one wanted”, but the players are “prepared for any possibility at the moment”.
“We are currently obtaining such a low percentage of income that affects our salary,” she said last month in the television show “We need to talk”. “We are asking for a greater reduction in this, as more equitable for the part of men’s income.”
Wages should grow exponentially in the new CBA with the Disagree on 11 -year -old media rights The WNBA signed last July which will bring at least $ 200 million a year. This agreement comes into force next year.
The share of a salary increase that players get is the question, although this will not change this year’s recruit contracts.
Bueckers has one of the best names, image and resemblance (Nile) for women’s basketball players in recent years and these agreements should continue in his professional career. Bueckers already has agreements with Nike, Gatorade, Bose, Verizon, Dunkin ‘and its wallet should grow.
What is the wage scale of the WNBA recruit?
If Bueckers is the first choice of the WNBA as planned, it will earn around $ 78,000 in base salary. THE 10th overall selection wins about $ 72,000.
Bueckers and others could earn hundreds of thousands of dollars in league and team marketing transactions as well as premiums for field performance – increasing their WNBA income to $ 500,000.
Unequaled league 3 against 3 increases heat
THE inaugural season From the new league 3 against 3 launched by collar and Breanna Stewart attracted complimentary criticism from nearly three dozen players who played there. Much of the praise was for their earnings. Unforeseen had the highest average salary for players from any professional women’s sports league with many six -digit wages for the eight -week season.
Unparalleled players have an average salary of more than $ 220,000, which is close to the maximum basic salary of the WNBA.
The things that worked well for the new league will certainly be discussed at the ABC negotiation table.
The enormous gap between the wages of the WNBA and the NBA
There are various reasons why the best wages for WNBA players are much lower than the minimum wage of around $ 1,157,153 for NBA players (excluding double -direction contracts).
The main thing is the difference in beneficiary margin for each league, partly reasoned by the rights of the media.
NBA revenues exceeded $ 10 billion for the first time in 2022 and the League has an agreement of $ 76 billion on 11 -year -old media rights with Disney (ABC / ESPN), NBC and Amazon Prime Video that is starting next season. The WNBA wins $ 60 million a year in broadcasting offers for an increasingly half season that is half as long as the NBA. The WNBA does not publicly disclose its income figures.
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