{"id":295473,"date":"2025-11-20T13:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/295473\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T13:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:04:12","slug":"this-is-how-much-money-caitlin-clark-would-make-under-the-wnbas-proposed-cba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/295473\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how much money Caitlin Clark would make under the WNBA&#8217;s proposed CBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/wnba\/indiana-fever\/news\/how-much-money-caitlin-clark-would-make-under-wnbas-proposed-cba\/eb99bb16452d736daa544d27?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:This is how much money Caitlin Clark would make under the WNBA&#039;s proposed CBA;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">This is how much money Caitlin Clark would make under the WNBA&#8217;s proposed CBA<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The WNBA reportedly has made a new offer to the WNBPA as the league seeks to tie up a new collective bargaining agreement before the end of November.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>If the offer is accepted, it would pave the way for a historic rise in player salaries, and a chance for WNBA players to take part in revenue sharing at a previously-unseen level in the league&#8217;s 29-year history.<\/p>\n<p>The sides have 10 days to reach an agreement before the 2020 CBA expires, which could lead to a damaging work stoppage amid the WNBA&#8217;s explosive financial growth this decade. This growth has been prompted in part by young stars like Paige Bueckers, Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark &#8212; all of whom have entered the league just in the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Clark would be in line for millions of dollars<\/p>\n<p>Clark, the top pick of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/wnba\/indiana-fever\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Indiana Fever;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Indiana Fever<\/a> in the 2024 draft, has been credited with bringing millions of new viewers into the WNBA. Clark, a two-time All-Star already, has a line of endorsement deals that have made her a millionaire, some dating to her record-smashing collegiate career at the University of Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>However, Clark&#8217;s WNBA salary pales in comparison to what she can earn from Nike, State Farm and others.<\/p>\n<p>Two years into her league-standard four-year rookie contract, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/90251\/caitlin-clark#:~:text=Caitlin%20Clark%20signed%20a%204%20year%2C%20$338056,with%20an%20average%20annual%20salary%20of%20$84514.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Clark has made approximately $154,000 in the WNBA;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Clark has made approximately $154,000 in the WNBA<\/a>. She is due to make another $183,455 in 2026 and 2027 before she can reach unrestricted free agency in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The WNBA&#8217;s CBA proposal calls for a league maximum salary north of $1.1 million from 2026 &#8212; and it would grow each year, in accordance with league revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>That means when Clark signs her next contract with the Fever, Indiana will be paying its superstar point guard at least $1.1 million per season &#8212; and that would be just the start.<\/p>\n<p>More WNBA news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is how much money Caitlin Clark would make under the WNBA&#8217;s proposed CBA originally appeared on The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[724,49,735,48,4233,2803,4658,82,630,11043,35520],"class_list":["post-295473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-angel-reese","tag-ca","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-canada","tag-cba","tag-indiana-fever","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-players","tag-wnba-salary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295473","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=295473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}