Draft Pick: No. 1Team: Indiana FeverCollege: Iowa State UniversityContract: $338,056 (Projected) 2024 Cap: $76,535
WNBA Salaries Are So Bad, NFL Star Russell Wilson Is Calling For ChangeOn April 15, 2024, the Women’s National Basketball Association announced their 2024 draft at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with 36for their professional careers. Among them includes Caitlin Clark, the prolific shooting guard from the University of Iowa who set the NCAA all-time scoring mark.
in their own way with their respective college teams. In the meantime, they’ve also been getting many endorsements with the NCAA players taking advantage of Name, Image, and Likeliness . When the WNBA contracts were revealed, many people took to react to how small it is in comparison to other jobs. “For somebody who is now the face ofshow the morning after the draft. “I was like, ‘Ah! What’s she gonna get paid?’ Because finally, you can get a real paycheck, and then I saw it, and I was like, ‘This can’t be right.'”Image Credit: Photo by Justin Ford/Getty Images
WNBA’s draft pick Caitlin Clark’s contract was worth a total of $338,056. In 2023, NBA No. 1 draft pick Victor Wembanyama signed a four-year, US$55.2 million rookie contract with the San Antonio Spurs, with an annual salary of $13,793,692. That makes Caitlin Clark’s contract around 0.55 percent of her male counterpart’s.
The NBA is reportedly worth $10 billion, compared to the WBNA which has been valued at $60 million, so there’s a long way to go towards gender equality.. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services.
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