{"id":319327,"date":"2025-12-01T23:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T23:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/319327\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T23:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T23:09:08","slug":"wnba-reportedly-offers-1m-guaranteed-max-salary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/319327\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA reportedly offers $1M guaranteed max salary"},"content":{"rendered":"

The WNBA has offered its players a guaranteed max salary of $1M for the 2026 season that could climb to a projected $1.2M or more with revenue sharing, sources with knowledge of negotiations confirmed Monday. <\/p>\n

The guarantee is a departure from an earlier league max<\/a> salary proposal that totaled $1.1M, but, according to sources, was more of a projection with far less guaranteed money — reportedly in the $800,000 to $850,000 range. In addition, the latest offer would put average 2026 player salaries in a projected $500,000 range and minimum salaries in a $225,000 range. The numbers were first reported by ESPN.<\/p>\n

The proposals show the league is purportedly willing to move off its previous pay structure, which had raised salaries at a fixed rate of 3% annually. The union has maintained it wants salaries to grow as league revenue grows — similar to the NBA — and sources close to the league believe this offer complies with that request.<\/p>\n

For instance, sources said under this proposal the 2026 salary cap would balloon to $5M in 2026 (from a reported $1.5M) and then be tied every ensuing season of the CBA to the growth of league business.<\/p>\n

The WNBPA was not immediately available for comment. The current CBA was originally due to expire on Oct. 31st, but after an initial 30-day extension, the two sides on Sunday night extended their negotiating window <\/a>another 40 days until Jan. 9, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WNBA has offered its players a guaranteed max salary of $1M for the 2026 season that could…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-319327","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\/319327","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=319327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}