{"id":319467,"date":"2025-12-02T00:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T00:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/319467\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T00:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T00:54:09","slug":"wnba-cba-proposal-would-push-max-player-salary-to-1-million-raise-cap-to-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/319467\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA CBA proposal would push max player salary to $1 million, raise cap to $5 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest CBA proposal from the Women’s National Basketball Association to the WNBA Players Association includes a maximum base salary of $1 million in 2026, a source with knowledge of the situation told CBS Sports on Monday. The proposal — which comes after the two sides recently agreed to a 40-day extension of the current CBA<\/a> — also includes a minimum salary of more than $225,000 and would bump the league’s salary cap to $5 million in Year 1 of the new deal. The WNBA’s minimum salary and salary cap were $66,079 and $1.5 million in the 2025 season, respectively.<\/p>\n

The supermax in 2025 was $249,244. The league’s proposal would push the max salary to seven figures and that number could be more than $1.2 million based on projected revenue sharing, per sources.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the league’s proposal would see the salary cap rise to $5 million in Year 1, and it would be tied directly to revenue growth in each year of the CBA.<\/p>\n

Player salaries figure to increase substantially in whatever deal is eventually reached between the WNBA and the players. The players, however, have voiced that changing the revenue-sharing model is a top priority in the new CBA. Here’s more from CBS Sports’ Jack Maloney<\/a>:<\/p>\n

While the players want more money, a new revenue-sharing model is their top priority, not just higher salaries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“If me and you aren’t set on going to the correct restaurant, who cares what we’re ordering as an appetizer?” WNBPA first vice president\u00a0Kelsey Plum<\/a>\u00a0said earlier this year<\/a>. “First, second, third is rev share [and] salary. So when I say that we continue to propose and the counter proposals that are coming back are further away from where we thought we would be, that to me is — and I think a lot of the players are in agreement as a union — this is literally the meat and potatoes.”<\/p>\n

Under the current CBA, however, the salary cap — and thus, player salaries — increases at a fixed rate of 3% per year. The players are pushing for a new model where salaries grow with the business.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Currently, players reportedly only receive about 9% of all revenue, a far cry from the 49-51% of basketball-related income that\u00a0NBA<\/a>\u00a0players receive. While the current CBA does have a clause to trigger revenue sharing if the WNBA hits certain benchmarks, they have never been met, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There has not yet been a public response from the players union regarding the league’s latest proposal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sunday’s 40-day extension of the current CBA keeps it intact through Jan. 9, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest CBA proposal from the Women’s National Basketball Association to the WNBA Players Association includes a maximum…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,141925,630,8811,115315,132612],"class_list":["post-319467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-what-is-wnba-max-salary","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-cba","tag-wnba-cba-negotiations","tag-wnba-max-salary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319467","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=319467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}