He earned 9.9m. Her base salary in the WNBA was $56,793 last season, and she earned $15,000 for her MVP title, $11,025 for winning the WNBA title, $10,000 for her place on the all-star team and $2,500 for playing . The US women's soccer team has brought the conversation to the forefront over the last three years. I dont fault the WNBA players for wanting more money. After all, theWNBAis subsidized by the NBA in a variety of ways, including by direct financial support, free publicity, and the fact that manyWNBAfranchises are owned by the citys NBA owner. A post shared by Kelsey Plum (@kelseyplum10). You can make a case that WNBA players could be paid more, but some people are making an argument that they should be paid the same, or at least similarly. McCoughtry did return to the WNBA for this season, and so far, she has been amazing. Like Russia. April 2 Equal Pay Day marks the day U.S. women have finally earned the same amount of money as the average man did in 2018. And although we don't know every player's salary, it has been reported that average salary is about $75,000. WNBA stars including Aja Wilson, Brittney Griner, Liz Cambage and Skylar Diggins-Smith have all spoken out about WNBA salaries compared to their NBA counterparts. Answer (1 of 2): The WNBA is heavily subsidized by the NBA; but for this fact, the WNBA would have folded a long time ago. She is in grave danger and this petition is to try to make sure this never happens again. "And we need more people at our table to fight with us," she told Wealthsimple. And no one wants to see the WNBA die, least of all the players., The WNBA will suffer if they dont figure out some way to pay players more. A WNBA spokesperson reached out to HuffPost after this op-ed was published, however, and said the WNBA has lost significant money every year and has shared its financials with the Players Association. The Players Association wants a higher share of the estimated basketball-related income (EBRI). The men tend to play to impress or are just out there for the results, and we play for the process. Some would say that the WNBA should be able to pay their players more because there are only 12 teams, compared to the NBA with 30 teams. This should not be tolerated. 1. Bradley Beal, who is also a professional player who currently plays for the Washington Wizards, is always finding ways to support the Washington Mystics. Seriously, not a single person. https://thebablueprint.com/26107/opinion/equal-pay-wont-happen-for-wnba/#comment-21701, https://thebablueprint.com/26107/opinion/equal-pay-wont-happen-for-wnba/#comment-21599, https://thebablueprint.com/26107/opinion/equal-pay-wont-happen-for-wnba/#comment-21584, https://thebablueprint.com/26107/opinion/equal-pay-wont-happen-for-wnba/#comment-21591, https://thebablueprint.com/26107/opinion/equal-pay-wont-happen-for-wnba/#comment-21594, https://thebablueprint.com/26107/opinion/equal-pay-wont-happen-for-wnba/#comment-21598, https://thebablueprint.com/26107/opinion/equal-pay-wont-happen-for-wnba/#comment-21653. Another reason why NBA players make more money than WNBA players is because the owners of NBA teams can charge more for tickets and merchandise. This is a charge they have used on multiple detainees. Opens. But using league revenue, economics professor Dave Berri was recently able to calculate a significant gender wage gap in another respect. The ratio of the highest paid WNBA player to the 144th best paid WNBA player is about 3.8. about what they have said to make them seem petty or jealous. AEW Dynamite Results: Winners And Grades On March 1, 2023, Celta Vigo Star Gabri Veiga Is Alerting Wealthy Teams In The Premier League, Trade Madness: Knicks, Nets, Rangers, Islanders And Devils Spent February Making Notable Moves, Los Angeles Chargers Have Shown Keenan Allen The Money But They Wont Show Him The Door, Corner Threes Are Secret Sauce For Milwaukee Bucks Offensive Success, OKC Thunder: Upcoming Six-Game Slate Will Dictate Direction Of Season, Is Vince McMahon Secretly Booking WrestleMania 39? Since the NBA formed the WNBA I can't see how they could not just pay the men less to pay the women more. But let's talk about the competitiveness of the field for a minute, because, arguably, it's true: In many sports, the difference in skill and ability between the top women's athlete, and say, the 100 th-ranked women's athlete, is a much wider gulf than the same comparison between male players of similar ranks.For instance the recent women's football World Cup match between the #1 . Equal pay is an ongoing gender issue in sports. I want to get paid in my country.". A case can be made thatWNBAplayers are actually overpaid relative to what consumers actually want. Las Vegas Aces point guard Kelsey Plum wants to change that. The average viewers on television was 171,000 in 2017 (2018 does appear to be higher averaging 266,300 viewers) WNBA plays 34 games in regular season. He covers an array of topics including NFL, Pop Culture, Fishing News, and the Outdoors. So female basketball players work just as hard as male basketball players, yet even the best WNBA players are paid much less than the mediocre and below average NBA ones. Its not even because of skill it is simply because none of the girls could get a shot off at will. I fault the narrative claiming that one group deserves as much money as another group solely because of gender the narrative that the utopic desire for gender equality trumps market forces. As many may not know, men get paid way more money than women's basketball does. For example, if a woman made an NBA team, then she should get paid commensurate to her position and contributions to her team. In 2014, the WNBA launched the first marketing campaign in professional sports to directly appeal to the LGBTQ market. The league average in 2022 is just $102,751 for WNBA players. Of course, a bump to 50 percent of WNBA league revenue isnt realistic, because theres a difference between revenue and profit. They shouldnt have to work so hard for so little. Required fields are marked *. In order to make a living playing basketball, most WNBA players compete overseas during the offseason to supplement their WNBA income. Also, overseas love basketball and put butts in seats regardless of who is on the court. That is more than $92 million a year for the rights to televise the USGA's championships, including the men's and women's U.S. Proclaiming that women should get paid as much as men is a great way for a man to demonstrate his feminist bona fides. He attended two games with the Dallas Wings and Connecticut Suns. NBA fans are now used to the game that they love. Due to this situation the question has surfaced of, Should women basketball players be compensated the same as mens? And there is seemingly, to the people who tell them to be quiet, who. Meanwhile, High Post Hoops reports that the highest paid player in the WNBA -- Chiney Ogwumike of the Connecticut Sun -- is paid $117,500 this year. market in terms of economic e ciency. James reportedly walked away with $370,000, while Bird only collected $11,356. But the risk also offered reward: 15 million Americans self-identify as LGBTQ, and they represent a market segment worth around $830 million. Did You Ever Wonder How and Why the Left Is Able to Push Their Narratives Almost Unhindered? They deserve to be able to play the game they love without needing to get a second job to pay the bills. And there is seemingly no end to the people who tell them to be quiet, who disparage their talent and work and even lie about what they have said to make them seem petty or jealous. Some WNBA players can even dunk. The WNBA has about 570,000 people that are watching the games. It is not a matter of sexism or discrimination. Cass Anderson is the Editor-in-Chief of BroBible. According to ESPN estimates, NBA players receive around 50 percent of the EBRI; WNBA players receive around 22 percent. From 2014 to 2017, Cambage competed in China and her native Australia. By comparison, last years Professional Bowling League averaged650,000 viewers for ESPN. Yes they are. She is also not the only one to skip a WNBA season. This is the first time salaries for women in the WNBA will achieve an average salary that is six figures (Glamour). The men tend to play to impress or are just out there for the results, and we play for the process. The methodology used to measure exploitation in college basketball can help answer that question. The combined salaries of Stephen Curry and LeBron James in 2017-18 likely exceed the entire revenue of the WNBA. Now, Team USA is in Spain, about to play in the FIBA Womens Basketball World Cup which tips off later this week in Tenerife, with the final on Sept. 30. Undermining Berris position, though, is the simple observation that revenue is not the same as profit another measure by which theWNBAhasconsistently struggled. However, they fail to realize that NBA is self-sufficient and if they want to be the same they need to put butts in seats and become self-sufficient as well. These numbers were promoted by theleague as the highest since 2003. But to be honest, we play it better than the boys do. 2023 The Federalist, A wholly independent division of FDRLST Media. Which is kind of unbelievable, as WNBA All-Star point guard for the Dallas Wings, Skylar Diggins-Smith, put it recently: Before we even talk about base salary or anything like that, we dont even get paid the same percentage of the revenue that we bring in., Unfortunately, its not clear what the WNBAs exact revenue is, or individual teams, or their profits. In August, WNBA president Lisa Borders said, While I encourage WNBA players to speak out on issues important to them, it is equally important that they understand the realities of our business., Nows a good time for players to advocate for themselves because the product in the WNBA has never been better. This is something that the 150-ish WNBA players have been fighting to change for quite some time. In the WNBA the range of salaries is $117K to $215K for the highest-paid players. The league average in 2022 is just $102,751 for WNBA players. For the sake of the future of the WNBA and its need to stop the top players from skipping entire seasons, maybe the league should want the same thing. In the 2018 All-Star Game, for example, 32 percent of the roster identified as gay. Where the NBA pays its players between 49-51 percent of the league's revenue, WNBA players take home a maximum of 22.8 percent. WNBA players want what NBA players spent decades trying to obtain. Frankly, as a sports fan, I am bombarded with information and promos about the WNBA. So instead of grumbling about the salaries male basketball players enjoy, perhaps Aja Wilson should be thankful that the mensproduct helps bolster her own paycheck. . You can pay your athletes more if they actually bring in the revenue for you to pay them with. The latest example of this economic fallacy emerged when Aja Wilson of theWNBAs Las Vegas Acestook to Twitter to pokeLeBronJamessnew contract with the Las AngelesLakers. It is simply because the WNBA is not as good as the NBA and you cant get viewers when there is a better alternative. But WNBA players only take less than 25 percent of the total earnings of their league. A 47 point difference is absolutely terrible. According to Bird: So, I thought that it needed . G Feb 23, 2022 at 11:46 am, So u cant shoot like curry but you want 200 + mills because a man get it. According to Jami Farkas of Yahoo Finance, WNBA players had an average salary of $74,349 in 2019, increasing to $120,648 in 2021. The Greatest Food Debates Of All Time, Answered Pineapple On Pizza? Nobody has put any effort into making sure that women can at least get paid more than the amount we get. This would give them the opportunity to negotiate a new deal that increases the salary cap, along with maximum and minimum salaries. The WNBA according to the league the WNBA has yet to make a profit.. The maximum veteran salary is $113,500. LeBron James is one of the greatest athletes in human history, but if his sport of choice generated the public interest the WNBA has, he would not be signing a $154 million dollar contract. As women, we work just as hard or maybe even harder than men do when it comes to achieving our goals. Last year, Minnesota Lynxs Seimone Augustus told The Undefeated that the reasons players continue in the league is for history and for the future. The WNBA brings in $25 million dollars a year, while the NBA brings in $7.4 billion. The team went on to earn the gold at the world championships, then captured its first Olympic gold in 20 years by defeating Team Canada in PyeongChang. That being said -- in response to Cambages' comment -- the WNBA does appear to have enough money to pay its top players as well as an NBA referee. So is the opportunity to grow the game. According to the High Post Hoops data, Sylvia Fowles, Nneka Ogwumike, Sylar Diggins-Smith, Angel McCoughtry, Diana Taurasi, Dewanna Bonner, Elena Delle Donne, and Chiney Ogwumike are all paid between $111,180 and $117,500. However, you cannot have equal pay when you dont make enough money to have the same amount of pay. Clearly, the WNBA still needs to work on establishing its long-term viability, and some might argue that the players shouldnt request raises until the league has become more financially stable. 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