{"id":300268,"date":"2025-11-19T02:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/300268\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T02:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:06:09","slug":"source-wnba-proposes-max-salary-over-1-1m-in-latest-cba-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/300268\/","title":{"rendered":"Source: WNBA proposes max salary over $1.1M in latest CBA talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nov 18, 2025, 08:14 PM ET<\/p>\n

NEW YORK — The WNBA’s latest collective bargaining proposal would include revenue sharing with a maximum salary of more than $1.1 million available to more than one player per team growing each year, a source confirmed to ESPN.<\/p>\n

WNBA officials updated the board on the latest proposal at meetings this week. The new league minimum would be more than $220,000 with an average of more than $460,000, according to a source.<\/p>\n

Those numbers would start in the first year of the deal for more than 180 players and increase over the length of the CBA, the source said.<\/p>\n

The current CBA was set to expire Oct. 31 when the WNBA and the players union agreed to continue negotiations to Nov. 30, allowing more time to negotiate a deal that would be revolutionary for the players in terms of salary.<\/p>\n

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The players exercised their right to opt out of the current CBA last year with hopes of getting, among other things, increased revenue sharing, higher salaries, improved benefits and a softer salary cap. When the last CBA expired in 2019, both sides agreed to a 60-day extension with a CBA eventually ratified in January 2020.<\/p>\n

WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert was hopeful before the 2025 All-Star Game that everyone would be talking about how great the next CBA would be at the 2026 All-Star Game.<\/p>\n

“I’m still really optimistic that we’ll get something done that would be transformational,” Engelbert said in July.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press was first to report news of the WNBA’s latest CBA proposal.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press and ESPN’s Alexa Philippou contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov 18, 2025, 08:14 PM ET NEW YORK — The WNBA’s latest collective bargaining proposal would include revenue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-300268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}