![]() ![]() Obviously this overseas continual play is hard on the players’ physical and mental well-being – and Russia is no longer enticing due to Brittney Griner’s wrongful detainment. To make a satisfactory wage, the three-time WNBA champion gave up summers, time with her family and her wife, to play overseas. At the time – her eleventh year in the league – that had been her routine for eight years. With some, such as Washington Mystic Kristi Toliver, juggling three teams. For example, a week after Minnesota Lynx guard Seimone Augustus finished her seven-month season in Russia with the Dynamo Kursk, she was back in Minneapolis for WNBA training camp. Even more egregiously, Diana Taurasi sat out of entire 2015 WNBA season because her Russian team, which paid her more than $1 million, wanted her to rest.Īs a result, almost three-quarters of WNBA players have played for teams abroad. However, it’s still dwarfed by previous years’ overseas salaries: In Russia players have been known to make more than $500,000 per season – Sue Bird told 60 Minutes that in Russia she made 10 times her first WNBA salary, which was under $60,000 a year. That’s tremendous progress considering that just six years ago in 2016, the maximum income a player could earn was $109,000. The minimum base level salary is that of a rookie selected in the third round of the draft which is $62,285. ![]() In 2023, the super-maximum base level salary a WNBA player can make is $234,936. Plus, we’ll reveal what the coaches in the WNBA might make, and it could shock you. So today, we’ll take a look at the new average 2023 WNBA salary, the highest and lowest paid players, and how that stacks up to the NBA (spoiler alert: it’s ridiculous). ![]() For four-and-a-half months of work, that isn’t bad.” said WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert. “With bonuses, players can now make $650,000. The new eight-year CBA, which began with the 2020 season and runs through 2027, provides the foundation to chart a new course for women’s professional basketball. For perspective, there are more professional astronauts in the world (560) than WNBA players (144)! Yet, these elite female athletes aren’t compensated relative to the value they’re delivering, with the support of very little marketing. Each opportunity they get, they continue to fight for more pay.Ī spot in the WNBA is one of the hardest jobs in the world to get. And while the league has found its footing, unfortunately its players struggle to. The WNBA is the longest-lasting professional women’s sports league in the US, now with 25 plus seasons under its belt. ![]() It’s especially not a decent wage for one of the most coveted positions in a women’s sports league that has been around for more than two decades. However it’s not a decent wage for a professional athlete. In the US, that’s a decent wage, in general, considering the US Census Bureau listed the annual median personal income at $35,805 in 2020. That’ll come down a bit after the WNBA Draft, which is likely to introduce more rookie-scale contracts into the league, assuming some of those players make it through training camps. The average 2023 WNBA salary currently (as of April 2, 2023) is $147,745. ![]()
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