Aside from the skills displayed at the 2025 WNBA All-Star Game and events this weekend in Indianapolis, a major focal point created by the various All-Stars was the need for increased compensation for players across the league.<\/p>\n
As a result of the historic rise in the league’s overall popularity during the 2024 season, the players’ union opted out of the WNBA collective bargaining agreement<\/a> in October in the hopes of striking a new deal that provides improved benefits and increased player compensation.<\/p>\n In response to the players’ union classifying their Thursday meeting with the league on a new CBA as a missed opportunity,<\/a> players wore T-shirts that read “Pay Us What You Owe Us”<\/a> during warmups of the 2025 WNBA All-Star Game on Saturday night.<\/p>\n With WNBA player salaries a topic of national discussion, what is Caitlin Clark’s contract compensation?<\/p>\n What is Caitlin Clark\u2019s salary?<\/p>\n According to Spotrac<\/a>, Clark’s four-year rookie contract provides her with an average annual salary of $84,514, totaling $338,056 over the length of the agreement.<\/p>\n Her season-by-season payout is a slightly different story, as Clark was paid $76,535 in 2024 and is scheduled to earn $78,066 this current season. Clark’s base pay increases to $85,873 in 2026 and concludes at $97,582 in 2027 during a final club option season of her contract.<\/p>\n How much do WNBA players make?<\/p>\n Each WNBA team works with a salary cap of $1,507,100. There is also a required $1,261,440 minimum to spend.<\/p>\n Per the current operating CBA and Her Hoop Stats<\/a>, the league’s super-maximum is $249,244. The regular maximum contract is $214,466.<\/p>\n The minimum contract to players with two or less years of service is $66,079 and $78,831 to WNBA players with three or more years of service.<\/p>\n Who has the largest contract value in the WNBA?<\/p>\n As of July 20, 2025, Dallas Wings’ guard Arike Ogunbowale is the WNBA’s highest-paid player according to her total contract value. The former Notre Dame star is in the final year of the three-year contract she signed in 2023 that pays her a total of $725,952.<\/p>\n The title for largest average annual value in the league belongs to Las Vegas Aces guard Jackie Young, whose AAV clocks in at $252,450 per Spotrac<\/a>.<\/p>\n When is the deadline for a new WNBA collective bargaining agreement?<\/p>\n While the players’ union and the league continue to work on finding common ground to finalize a new CBA, the deadline to reach an agreement is Oct. 31, 2025. If the two sides cannot reach a new CBA by then, a work stoppage could jeopardize <\/a>the start of the 2026 WNBA season.<\/p>\n Contact\/Follow us\u00a0@HawkeyesWire<\/a>\u00a0on X and like our page on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of Iowa news, notes and opinions.\u00a0Follow Scout on X:\u00a0@SpringgateNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aside from the skills displayed at the 2025 WNBA All-Star Game and events this weekend in Indianapolis, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[10228,7073,13364,12201,13363,461,49,7075,735,48,7076,13362,13366,1112,1458,3460,2034,44,13365,1333,2042,6411,6451,82,865,780,1459,630,1872,4134,4143],"class_list":["post-14857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-aces","tag-all-star","tag-arike","tag-arike-ogunbowale","tag-bargaining","tag-basketball","tag-ca","tag-caitlin","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-canada","tag-clark","tag-collective","tag-collective-bargaining","tag-game","tag-las","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-ogunbowale","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-smg","tag-smg-timely","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-timely","tag-vegas","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-all-star-game","tag-womens","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}