{"id":363599,"date":"2025-12-23T10:47:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T10:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/363599\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T10:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T10:47:13","slug":"how-much-did-caitlin-clark-make-in-2025-wnba-star-makes-forbes-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/363599\/","title":{"rendered":"How much did Caitlin Clark make in 2025? WNBA star makes Forbes list."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Caitlin Clark returns from injury at USA Basketball camp<\/p>\n

FOS’ Annie Costabile was at the USA Basketball camp where Caitlin Clark made her return from injury. Full interview at YouTube.com\/@IndianapolisStar<\/p>\n

Forbes recently released its list of the 20 highest-paid female athletes<\/a>, and for the second year in a row, Caitlin Clark<\/a> was the top-earning female basketball player in the world.<\/p>\n

Adding up her annual salary, bonus and endorsements, Forbes estimated the former Iowa women’s basketball<\/a> star to be the 11th highest paid female athlete. The 23-year-old made her debut on Forbes’ annual rankings last year,<\/a> coming in at No. 13 with an estimated compensation of $8.1 million.<\/p>\n

The 20 highest-paid female athletes earned a combined $293 million in 2025, up 13% from last year, with a record 14 athletes earning $10 million a year, according to Forbes.<\/p>\n

How much did Caitlin Clark make in 2025?<\/p>\n

Clark earned $12.1 million in compensation this year. Nearly all of it comes from her endorsement deals, as Forbes estimates her WNBA salary to be roughly $100,000. Some of her sponsors include Nike<\/a>, Gatorade, State Farm, Wilson<\/a>, Panini America<\/a> and Hy-Vee<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Clark’s base salary was $78,066, and she earned additional money with the Fever winning the Commissioner’s Cup ($30,000) and reaching the semifinals ($3,435). She also received $2,575 for being named to the All-Star team, according to Sportico<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Who was the highest-paid female athlete in 2025?<\/p>\n

For the second consecutive year, tennis star Coco Gauff is the world’s highest-paid female athlete. The 21-year-old earned $33 million this year, including $8 million from the court, partly because of her French Open victory<\/a> in June. Gauff made $25 million off the court through endorsements from New Balance, Bose and Baker Tilly.<\/p>\n

Here were the next highest-paid female athletes:<\/p>\n

Aryna Sabalenka, Tennis: $30 millionIga Swiatek, Tennis: $25.1 millionEileen Gu, Freestyle Skiing: $23.1 millionQinwen Zheng, Tennis: $22.6 millionMadison Keys, Tennis: $13.4 millionNelly Korda<\/a>, Golf: $13 millionNaomi Osaka, Tennis: $12.5 millionElena Ryabkina, Tennis: $12.5 millionJessica Pegula, Tennis: $12.3 million<\/p>\n

USA TODAY reporter Scooby Axson contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

Cooper Worth is a service\/trending reporter for the Des Moines Register. Reach him at cworth@gannett.com or follow him on X @CooperAWorth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark returns from injury at USA Basketball camp FOS’ Annie Costabile was at the USA Basketball camp…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[1338,76,461,49,7075,735,48,361,1346,7076,152239,4305,5316,2030,5315,5319,1329,12113,12122,75,152240,76550,22844,76551,1425,150725,1337,1348,2041,1327,1342,44,12114,5317,1333,1345,1334,1330,82,865,1320,39,1335,630,4134,4143],"class_list":["post-363599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-affiliate","tag-arts","tag-basketball","tag-ca","tag-caitlin","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrities-u0026-entertainment-news","tag-clark","tag-coco","tag-coco-gauff","tag-commerce","tag-connect","tag-contains","tag-contains-commerce-or-affiliate-content","tag-content","tag-dot","tag-dot-optimized","tag-entertainment","tag-gauff","tag-hawkeyes","tag-ia","tag-ia-sharing-sports-hawkeyes","tag-iowa","tag-iowa-hawkeyes-womens-basketball","tag-local","tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","tag-local-connect","tag-modular","tag-modular-story","tag-news","tag-optimized","tag-or","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-positive","tag-sharing","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-story","tag-top-stories","tag-u0026","tag-wnba","tag-womens","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363599","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=363599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}