US Soccer Guarantees Equal Pay Through 2028 — Here's What That Means

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Same sport, same pay rate — finally.

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Today marks a big day in the fight for equal pay in sports. The US Soccer Federation has reached a historic agreement with the United States Women's National Team Players Association and the United States National Soccer Team Players Association that guarantees equal pay for the women's and men's US soccer teams through December 2028.

This collective-bargaining agreement achieves"true equal pay," making US Soccer the"first Federation in the works to achieve this goal," afrom May 18 states."While there will be separate CBAs for each team, the agreements are identical in working conditions and financial components including appearance fees and game bonuses, prize money, commercial revenue share and more.

Notably, under this CBA, the men's and women's teams will pool and share prize money from the FIFA World Cup. Prior to this CBA, for example, qualifying for the World Cup meant $2.5 million went to the men's team while the women's team would get $750,000, according to anThe announcement of this final agreement comes just a few months after the

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That’s funny cause Courts have already proven that they make MORE than men.

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