Current:Home > MarketsWho are the highest-paid players in the WNBA? A list of the top 10 salaries in 2024. -AlphaFinance Experts
Who are the highest-paid players in the WNBA? A list of the top 10 salaries in 2024.
View
Date:2025-04-17 22:58:26
Viewership, overall ticket sales, and the WNBA's social media presence have made it a constant topic of discussion on sports talk shows and podcasts.
While that hasn't translated into players' pockets yet, as the salary cap for the 2024 season is $1,463,200, more players are starting to see the dividends of the increased eyeballs on the league.
While Indiana Fever rookie sensation Caitlin Clark will only make $76,000 in base salary this season, she will take home more than $500,000 in 2024, which includes money from player marketing agreements with league and team deals. Clark makes millions more in endorsements which includes deals with Nike, State Farm, Gatorade, Xfinity, and Panini.
Aces guard Jackie Young leads the way in the annual value of contracts when she signed a two-year, $504,900 contract extension with the team in 2022.
Who are the highest-paid WNBA players?
Here is Spotrac.com’s top 10 list of highest-paid WNBA players by their contract average annual value:
- Jackie Young, Las Vegas Aces: $252,420
- Jewell Loyd, Seattle Storm: $245,508
- Kahleah Copper, Phoenix Mercury: $245,059
- Arika Ogunwobale, Dallas Wings: $241,984
- Diana Taurasi, Phoenix Mercury: $234,936
- Natasha Howard, Dallas Wings: $224,675
- Erica Wheeler, Indiana Fever: $222,154
- Brionna Jones, Connecticut Sun: $212,000
- Skylar Diggins-Smith, Seattle Storm: $211,343
- Alyssa Thomas, Connecticut Sun: $209,000
veryGood! (96373)
Related
- Organizers cancel Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna over fears of an attack
- Lockheed Martin subsidiaries reach $70 million settlement for claims they overcharged Navy for parts
- Music Review: An uninhibited Gracie Abrams finds energy in the chaos on ‘The Secret of Us’
- Travis Kelce, Jason Kelce and Kylie Kelce Are a Winning Team in France During Cannes Outing
- Charges: D'Vontaye Mitchell died after being held down for about 9 minutes
- Walmart is shifting to digital prices across the chain's 2,300 stores. Here's why.
- Social platform X decides to hide 'likes' after updating policy to allow porn
- Effort to Save a Historic Water Tower Put Lead in this North Carolina Town’s Soil
- Romantasy reigns on spicy BookTok: Recommendations from the internet’s favorite genre
- RFK Jr.'s campaign files petitions to get on presidential ballot in swing-state Pennsylvania
Ranking
- Vance jokes he’s checking out his future VP plane while overlapping with Harris at Wisconsin airport
- Nelly and Ashanti secretly married 6 months ago
- Angel Reese sets WNBA rookie record with seventh consecutive double-double
- Here’s the landscape 2 years after the Supreme Court overturned a national right to abortion
- Golf's No. 1 Nelly Korda looking to regain her form – and her spot on the Olympic podium
- How long does chlorine rash last? How to clear up this common skin irritation.
- FEMA is ready for an extreme hurricane and wildfire season, but money is a concern, Mayorkas says
- Why a USC student won't be charged in fatal stabbing of alleged car thief near campus
Recommendation
Taylor Swift makes surprise visit to Kansas City children’s hospital
Red Robin releases Olympic-inspired burger that weighs 18 ounces
Tainted liquor kills more than 30 people in India in the country's latest bootleg alcohol tragedy
Costco made a big change to its rotisserie chicken packaging. Shoppers hate it.
Matt Damon remembers pal Robin Williams: 'He was a very deep, deep river'
Man accused of killing 7 at suburban Chicago July 4 parade might change not-guilty plea
Judge dismisses charges in Nevada fake electors case over venue question, attorney general to appeal
Gayle King calls Justin Timberlake a 'great guy' after DWI arrest: 'He's not an irresponsible person'