{"id":329194,"date":"2025-12-04T02:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T02:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/329194\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T02:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T02:47:07","slug":"caitlin-clark-claims-the-crown-as-highest-earning-womens-basketball-star-per-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/329194\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark Claims the Crown as Highest-Earning Women\u2019s Basketball Star, per Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-athlete=\"false\" class=\"dom-traversal_domPTag__RMrin\">Women\u2019s sports are finally getting the spotlight they\u2019ve long deserved, and nowhere is that rise clearer than in the WNBA. Over the past two years, we\u2019ve seen a huge surge in viewership, attendance, and merchandise sales. But when Sportico released its Highest-Paid Female Athletes list for 2025, it was a reminder that there\u2019s still a long way to go. Of the 15 athletes on the list, 10 come from tennis. And the lone WNBA representative? Caitlin Clark.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:16px;color:#3e3e3e\" class=\"new-heading_headline-text__HmpNk\">Watch What\u2019s Trending Now!<\/p>\n<p data-athlete=\"false\" class=\"dom-traversal_domPTag__RMrin\">According to the report, Caitlin Clark earned $119,000 in WNBA salary and bonuses. But the real boost came from her endorsements, which brought in a massive $16 million. That pushed her to sixth on the list with an estimated total earnings of $16.1 million, making her the highest-earning women\u2019s basketball star this year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What is absolute criminal &amp; laughable is the economic impact driver &amp; profit driver is severely underpaid in Caitlin Clark in comparison to any other famale athlete but more broadly she is in a class among major players MALE OR FEMALE but no where compensated as such\u2026\ud83e\udd2f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7tBSu4R7HX\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/7tBSu4R7HX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Birdie \ud83e\udd9c (@birdology_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/birdology_\/status\/1996240574429462968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 3, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-athlete=\"false\" class=\"dom-traversal_domPTag__RMrin\">(This is a developing news..)<\/p>\n<p>Share this with a friend:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s sports are finally getting the spotlight they\u2019ve long deserved, and nowhere is that rise clearer than in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-329194","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\/329194","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=329194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}