{"id":596371,"date":"2026-04-11T05:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/596371\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T05:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:31:14","slug":"heres-how-much-caitlin-clark-will-make-this-wnba-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/596371\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s How Much Caitlin Clark Will Make This WNBA Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

During her college days at Iowa, Caitlin Clark<\/a> took the basketball world by storm. Her flashy style of play, complemented by her penchant for hitting difficult three-pointers, made her an instant star. Throughout her final college season, it was obvious she was going to be the No. 1 pick.<\/p>\n

The Indiana Fever did, in fact, select Clark with the first pick in 2024, though they were limited in how much they could pay her. Her rookie deal was worth $338,056 over four seasons. To date, she’s made $154,601 in WNBA salary.<\/p>\n

That’s about to drastically change after the WNBA and its players agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement. Every player in the league is getting a raise<\/a>, and Clark is no exception.<\/p>\n

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Dylan Buell\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Her salary for the 2026 season will be about $528,846, per Spotrac<\/a>. That’s an increase of more than 577% from her 2025 salary!<\/p>\n

The new collective bargaining agreement also included a new EPIC feature, which stands for Epic Performance on Initial Contract. Incoming rookies typically sign a four-year deal. However, if they hit certain milestones, such as winning MVP, Rookie of the Year, or being named to an All-WNBA Team, they’re eligible to sign a three-year contract extension (and thus secure more money) in lieu of the fourth season of the rookie deal.<\/p>\n

In her first season, Clark won Rookie of the Year and was named to the All-WNBA First Team. She’ll have the opportunity to sign a new deal in 2027 to accelerate her WNBA career earnings.<\/p>\n

Clark has been savvy off the court, too, so she’s going to earn quite a bit more than her WNBA salary. She’s signed several notable endorsement deals, such as appearing in State Farm and Capital One commercials. Clark also inked an eight-year, $28 million contract<\/a> with Nike shortly after entering the league.<\/p>\n

WNBA players have long been overdue for a raise. Clark’s popularity was a catalyst to this new agreement getting done. It’ll pay off for her\u2014and all of her fellow players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During her college days at Iowa, Caitlin Clark took the basketball world by storm. Her flashy style of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,735,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-596371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-caitlin-clark","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596371","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=596371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}