New York – Paige Bueckers will receive approximately the same salary that Caitlin Clark obtained last year as the best choice in the WNBA Draft as the players’ salaries remain a topic of conversation.
Like him PRESPOSPUTION No. 1 PICK On Monday WNBA DraftThe Bueckers agreement will be worth a little more than $ 78,000 in base salary. The conversations between the League and the players union are ongoing an agreement when the current collective bargaining agreement expires next season.
Players have indicated that there could be a blockade if their salary demands are not met. The wages of WNBA players became brighter after the very commented Rookie and Angel Reese profits last season.
The vice president of the WNBA players, Naphesa Collier, has said that “nobody wants” a closure, but the players are “prepared for any possibility at this time.”
“We get such a small percentage of income participation at this time that it affects our salary,” he said last month in the television program “we need to speak.” “We are asking for a greater cut of that, as more equitable for what the income of men shares.”
Salaries are expected to grow exponentially in the new CBA with the 11 -year media rights agreement The WNBA signed last July that will bring at least $ 200 million a year. That agreement enters into force next year.
The question is the question that the increase in a salary is the question, although that will not change this year’s rookie contracts.
Bueckers has one of the main names of name, image and image (NIL) for female basketball players in recent years and these agreements are expected to move to their professional career. Bueckers already has agreements with Nike, Gatorade, Bose, Verizon, Dunkin ‘and his portfolio is expected to grow.
If Bueckers is the best choice in the WNBA as expected, it will win around $ 78,000 in base salary. He Tenth general selection He earns around $ 72,000.
Bueckers and others could earn hundreds of thousands of dollars in league and equipment marketing offers, as well as bonds for actions on the court, which increases its WNBA profits to potentially $ 500,000.
He Inaugural season From the new League 3 against 3 initiated by Collier and Breanna Stewart, they generated criticism of the almost three dozen players who played in it. Much of the praise were for their profits. Without the same had the highest average salary for players from any professional women’s sports league, and many won six -digit salaries for the eight -week season.
Unqualized players have an average salary of more than $ 220,000, which is close to the maximum base salary in the WNBA.
The things that worked well for the new league will certainly be discussed at the CBA negotiating table.
There are several reasons why the main salaries for WNBA players are much lower than the minimum wage of approximately $ 1,157,153 for NBA players (excluding those who have bidirectional contracts).
The main is the difference in the profit margins for each league, driven in part by the rights of the media.
NBA revenues exceeded $ 10 billion for the first time in 2022 and the League has a media rights agreement of $ 76 billion to 11 years with Disney (ABC/ESPN), NBC and Amazon Prime Video that begins next season. The WNBA earns $ 60 million a year with transmission offers for a season that is half of the time than the NBA. WNBA does not publicly publish its income numbers.
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