{"id":296623,"date":"2025-11-21T01:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/296623\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T01:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:41:14","slug":"new-wnba-cba-proposal-reportedly-includes-a-1-1-million-max-salary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/296623\/","title":{"rendered":"New WNBA CBA Proposal Reportedly Includes A $1.1 Million Max Salary"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the WNBA and players union still at a standstill, new reports reveal the league has offered a massive increase to the current player salaries.<\/p>\n

PublishedNovember 20, 2025 5:30 PM EST\u2022UpdatedNovember 20, 2025 5:02 PM EST<\/p>\n

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With the WNBA’s collective bargaining agreement now expired, the league is sweetening the pot in hopes of getting a deal done before the new Nov. 30 deadline.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to The Associated Press<\/a>, the WNBA’s latest proposal includes a massive raise along with additional benefits. And by massive raise, we mean three to four times the previous salaries. But despite the eye-popping monetary figures, it’s unclear whether the players’ union is finally satisfied.<\/p>\n

According to the report, the WNBA<\/a> is offering a max salary of $1.1 million, a league minimum salary of more than $220,000 and league average salary of more than $460,000. These figures would apply in the first year of the deal and increase over the course of the CBA.<\/p>\n

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The WNBA and its players association have been feuding for months.<\/p>\n

(Grace Smith\/IndyStar \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)<\/p>\n

The offer comes on the heels of months of increasingly heated back-and-forth between the league and the WNBPA<\/a>, who say they’re fighting for fair compensation and a guaranteed percentage of league revenue. Last month, union executive director Terri Jackson and legal counsel Erin D. Drake said the two sides remained “far apart”<\/a> and accused the WNBA of lowballing players under the guise of growth.<\/p>\n

“You know they know it’s bad when the best they say they can do is more of the same,” Jackson said in a statement. “A fixed salary system and a separate revenue-sharing plan that only includes a piece of a piece of the pie, and pays themselves [the league] back first.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the WNBA has grown dramatically over the past two years \u2014 adding new franchises, breaking viewership and sales records and inking a $2.2 billion media rights deal that kicks in next season. Players, including very vocal WNBPA vice president Napheesa Collier, are demanding a seat at the table.<\/p>\n

Collier went scorched earth on WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert<\/a> in a press conference earlier this fall. She later doubled down, saying the league is “taking advantage” of its stars. Collier specifically cited Caitlin Clark<\/a>‘s meager $78,000 salary despite her role in generating “hundreds of millions” in new revenue and sponsorship.<\/p>\n

“The amount of money that Caitlin Clark has made the league is insane, and she\u2019s getting 0% of it,” Collier told Glamour magazine.<\/p>\n

\"Caitlin<\/p>\n

Caitlin Clark has brought record-breaking viewership and sales to the WNBA.<\/p>\n

(Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images)<\/p>\n

So far, no agreement has been reached. And, until a new CBA is finalized, the entire WNBA offseason is on hold. Expansion drafts for the new Toronto and Portland franchises, free agency negotiations and 2026 planning all remain in limbo.<\/p>\n

And while the WNBA’s latest offer is a significant step forward, it’s not yet clear whether it will be enough to get a deal across the finish line or if the players will continue to push for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the WNBA and players union still at a standstill, new reports reveal the league has offered a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-296623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296623","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=296623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}