Sue Bird, a current player for the Seattle Storm, explained that most people think the WNBA wants the same pay as the NBA when thats not the case. The WNBA has made strides to increase player salaries and find other waysto compensate players in the last CBA, which was ratified in 2020. Average attendance per game was 7,716 in 2017. They are not going to watch a game where the best team in the league would lose by 30 to the best high school team in the nation. The WNBA will never take viewers from the NBA either. WWE Insider Says Yes, recently made this observation on Twitter about pay in the WNBA, but Yahoo.com reported a few years ago that salaries range from $150,000 to $550,000, there's still a substantial gender wage gap in professional basketball, but given the league's minimum ticket prices, average attendance, and the value of its ESPN television deal it appears revenue was at least $51.5 million in 2017, it has been reported that average salary is about $75,000, The methodology used to measure exploitation in college basketball, wins produced can be measured with the player's box score statistics, It has been reported that more than 60% of the WNBA's players play in a league outside the United States when the WNBA season ends. So is the opportunity to grow the game. And Angel McCoughtry skipped the 2017 WNBA season. Unfortunately Wilsons thoughts reflecta growingtrend of sports commentarylooking at the plight of the underpaidWNBAplayer. Instead of grumbling about the salaries male basketball players enjoy, perhaps Aja Wilson should be thankful theirproduct helps bolster her own paycheck. Basketball is a game of athleticism and skill. 1. Berri points out that Major League Baseball players were underpaid until, behind Marvin Miller, they built the strongest union in sports. That same year, however, only 2 percent of airtime on the stations flagship show, SportsCenter, was allocated to womens sports. Nobody has put any effort into making sure that women can at least get paid more than the amount we get. If that is so then why can Russia and Europe and China pay them well? Where is the fair day's wage for the fair day's work? The players are the latest athletes to demand equal treatment. So even relative to other non-major professional leagues, theWNBAstruggles for relevance. Let's delve into the reasons why they . Theyll be more prone to hiring men because theyll be able to pay men based on their production more bang for the buck, so to speak. With this deadline looming, the players would be wise to take advantage of this opportunity and compel the league to come to the table with an offer commensurate to their worth. It is not a matter of sexism or discrimination. The average womans salary year-round is approximately $200,000, while the average man earns $7.5 million or more. The league minimum for a player with two or fewer years of service is $41,202; for three or more years of . In essence, the owners arent making money off the league. Unfortunately the blame the patriarchy narrative doesnt hold up when you compare theWNBAto the college game. So we need a change, and we need it now. By comparison, last years Professional Bowling League averaged650,000 viewers for ESPN. She is the second-highest-paid player on the team just behind Aja Wilson who earns $202,155. Finding accurate financial data on any sport league is challenging. The WNBA's average base salary is around $130,000, with the rookie minimum at $60,471 and the veteran minimum at $72,141. 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. I feel like were getting there.. In the offseason, almost every WNBA member plays overseas, where they can make up to 10 times their normal WNBA salary. However, the WNBA actually loses $10 million a year as an organization, with costs outweighing revenue. Following the success of the 2014 Pride Campaign, the league has continued to reach out to gay fans, promoting stories about their LGBT players, and offering special merchandise for Pride Month and Pride Night games. This year in the 2022 playoffs, Ja Morant is the starting PG for the Memphis Grizzles. Prior to this season, Cambage last played in the WNBA in 2013. The ratio of the highest paid WNBA player to the 144th best paid WNBA player is about 3.8. Better cooks etc. about what they have said to make them seem petty or jealous. Tho Bishop is an Assistant Editor for the Mises Wire. She was returning to Russia to fulfill her contractual obligations to her Russian Team. 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Like Russia. NBA players are taller, more athletic, and simply play the game with more aggression. If the WNBA Players Association wants to opt out of its current collective bargaining agreement with the league and renegotiate terms, they have to do so by Oct. 31. I have gone back and forth on this issue and it saddens me that many women do not see it through the lenses of reality. In the NBA, the same ratio is about 4.7. Yet, ESPN is constantly promoting the WNBA, as is their right. Before winning a historic gold medal in the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Games, the U.S. Womens National Ice Hockey Team was battling off the ice for equal pay. Many people don't like the WNBA just because they have low talent but the girls don . So most of us dont get drafted or better yet, we get waved off because there isnt enough space and they can only pay for so many players. When it comes to me and my opinions, I strongly believe women should be paid the same amount as men maybe even more. Of course, they won't talk about how the stadiums are empty and nobody cares. Opens. Elizabeth Cambage -- the star center for the Dallas Wings -- recently made this observation on Twitter about pay in the WNBA: "today I learnt NBA refs make more than a WNBA player and the 12th man on a NBA team makes more than a WHOLE WNBA team.". Lisa Borders, president of theWNBA, has even directlypointed to sexismas a driving reason for the discrepancies between the earnings ofmale and female players. If you cannot draw the fans and advertising dollars on your own, why would you expect the NBA to be your support bra? That means WNBA players are only getting about 21.5% of league revenue. Since the NBA formed the WNBA I can't see how they could not just pay the men less to pay the women more. The Greatest Food Debates Of All Time, Answered Pineapple On Pizza? Kyrie Irving donated a total of $2 million to the WNBA to show his support. So, although we can follow the lead of boxing and rank the top WNBA players among the very best basketball players in the world, the top players in the WNBA are not going to start earning as much as the top players in the NBA. They deserve to be paid well. So yes, it appears NBA referees do make more than a WNBA player. I see and hear promos for the Washington Mystics, the local WNBA team, all the time. Every once in a while, you'll get someone who claims WNBA players should be paid like LeBron James and other elite NBA talent. Stats show that in 2018, the top scoring team in the WNBA . 154M. Lebron James is 69 and 250 pounds of pure muscle and can jump 40 off the ground. Since the NBA formed the WNBA I can't see how they could not just pay the men less to pay the women more. The NBA loves supporting women, like Kyrie Irving, who is a professional mens basketball player who currently plays for the New York Nets. Are there men that cook well and deal with kids well? If we assume the average hasn't changed, with 148 players in the league the total salaries paid to players in 2018 is about $11.1 million. Therefore no one watches it, on the other hand, NBA generates more revenue of $7.92 billion per year than the WNBA. This also helps explains whye-sports playersare making more money than the best players in theWNBA. It was, like, if you were a top player, no matter what you did, you were just going to make this one sum of money. However, you cannot have equal pay when you dont make enough money to have the same amount of pay. Sue Bird clarified that she doesn't think WNBA players "should get the same money as NBA players" in an interview with Adam Ray on his "About Last Night Podcast." The WNBA legend said people "think we think that when we say things like 'We want equality,'" but that, in actuality, she and her colleagues want "the same . WNBA players arent asking for NBA level compensation. This is a BETA experience. According to Jami Farkas of Yahoo Finance, WNBA players had an average salary of $74,349 in 2019, increasing to $120,648 in 2021. However, if NBA wanted to pay WNBA players more wages and salaries . Many of the women dont get lucrative endorsements, and getting into broadcasting or some other sports-adjacent field once they retire is not guaranteed. Also, say if they were to get 50% of the WNBA revenue it would mean they would owe instead of receiving increased salary. 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? I dont know how any single person could enjoy watching someone shoot wide open jump shots and wide open layups. As Mark Tatum, NBA deputy commissioner, says, The league and its teams are committed to an open and good-faith negotiation that is rooted in the financial realities of our business., The pushback on that, and one of the more prominent arguments utilized by those who advocate for higher WNBA salaries, is that the NBA doesnt promote the womens league enough. By entering your email and clicking Sign Up, you're agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners. 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Britney Griner was detained in Russia just days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A case can be made thatWNBAplayers are actually overpaid relative to what consumers actually want. Sue Bird once said, We dont need anybody to feel bad or have sympathy for us. A post shared by Kelsey Plum (@kelseyplum10). Those are honorable reasons to stick with the WNBA, but players shouldnt have to choose between these personal anchors to the league and their need to make a living. As athletes, we have to fight. The yearly revenue is 7.92 billion dollars for the NBA, and the WNBA is 60 million dollars. I dont know anyone who would disagree with that. The contract, which runs through 2027, pays. The WNBA might be the most boring form of basketball I have ever seen. While leading to the WNBA finals in a sell-out game, Kyle Lowry, Ja Morant, Ty Lue, Alvin Gentry, and Demarcus Cousins all attended the WNBA finals this year. And it also appears -- in response to McCoughtry's comment -- the WNBA should be more competitive with leagues around the world. Opinion: Race should not be considered in college admissions, Get a boost from the positives on climate change, OPINION: Stop corporate greed to end climate change, OPINION: Taylors killers should be fired, The Voice of the Bellwood-Antis Student Body, Your email address will not be published. In her defense, Wilson is a 21-year-old athlete who probably hasnt thought a great deal about economics. In addition to the comments from Plum, A'Ja Wilson and Diana Taurasi recently argued WNBA players should be paid more. At the end of the day, just about any article focusing on how athletes are either under (or over) paid stem from the fallacious view that their compensation is an inherent product of their labor, rather than the subjective values of consumers. also the nba is funding the wnba over 70 million to keep . Is it possible, however, that this simply shows an inherent sexist bias by consumers against womens basketball? If you don't sell tickets and negotiate a huge TV deal, you're not going to get rich. As many may not know, men get paid way more money than women's basketball does. Women have all of those qualities. This season, the maximum veteran salary is $115,500, not including potential bonuses. And no one wants to see the WNBA die, least of all the players. The WNBAs current collective bargaining agreement wont expire until October 2021, with the maximum salary paid to WNBA veterans set to increase $8,000 from $113,500 to $121,500 by that year, which barely keeps pace with inflation at its current rate. As Phoenix Mercurys Brittney Griner, earlier this year, I do believe we should get paid more in the WNBA before players decide to only play overseas and rest our bodies during the summer., Last year, Minnesota Lynxs Seimone Augustus. Twenty-eight members of the current national team pool announced in March that they aresuing U.S. Soccer, seeking equitable pay and treatment, including damages for back pay. In 2014, the WNBA launched the first marketing campaign in professional sports to directly appeal to the LGBTQ market. As someone who has studied the WNBA for years, only about half of WNBA franchises finish the season in the black, a market segment worth around $830 million, have argued that interest drives coverage, Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), Committee Member - MNF Research Advisory Committee, PhD Scholarship - Uncle Isaac Brown Indigenous Scholarship. Undermining Berris position, though, is the simple observation that revenue is not the same as profit another measure by which theWNBAhasconsistently struggled. In 2017, the league aired 20 games live on Twitter, while also offering a new fantasy game on the fantasy platform FanDuel. You can pay your athletes more if they actually bring in the revenue for you to pay them with. However, WNBA players push for more ESPN and media coverage. World number one tennis player Novak Djokovic says male tennis players deserve more money because the spectators love them more, and Indian Wells tournament ex-CEO Raymond Moore astutely observed the women's tour rides "on the coat-tails of the men". Old Joe Biden Has Never Told a WEIRDER Story Than This One, Et Tu, Paul? Some progress is being made. As The New York Timesreported in 2016,only half ofWNBAteams have managed to become profitable 20 years after the leagues founding. Equal pay is an ongoing gender issue in sports. Boys and men pick on the league every day. Because these women deserve more money. Last year, Minnesota Lynxs Seimone Augustus told The Undefeated that the reasons players continue in the league is for history and for the future. Many WNBA players head overseas to play during the off-season, where they can be paid much more than they earn in the U.S. Griner, who was arrested for allegedly transporting drugs, is one of them. 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. And its something were going to keep trying to push and push and push until we feel that everything is equal. In fact, in the segment, ESPNs Rachel Nichols cautions, Heres another key point in all this. This years Womens NCAA Championship managed3.5 million viewers on ESPN this year down 9 percent from 2017. Meanwhile, for the upcoming NBA season, the minimum salary . We need more businesses to sign women and trust them to support their brands. For example, if a woman made an NBA team, then she should get paid commensurate to her position and contributions to her team. I have limited time and resources. On average, WNBA players make $75,000 a year in the league, with only a few players earning as much as $113,000. Diese*r Petitionsstarter*in setzt sich fr Dinge ein, die ihr/ihm am Herzen liegen. And although we don't know every player's salary, it has been reported that average salary is about $75,000. But using league revenue, economics professor Dave Berri was recently able to calculate a significant gender wage gap in another respect. 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. They make it to the WC and have to split the revenue with the womens soccer team. Read More . Circling back to my claim that harping on gender wage-gap disparities potentially hinders my daughters earning potential, if employees are forced to pay everyone the same regardless of tenure, efficiency, and production, my daughter is going to see her future employment opportunities constrict. Basketball. Copyright 20102023, The Conversation Media Group Ltd. Doppler, the mascot of the Seattle Storm, waves a rainbow gay pride flag before the start of a game. Starting, we need more people advertising and supporting the WNBA, and not only when its beneficial for them. For that to happen, the WNBA needs to make a new deal with its players. While the men are getting about half of the total money they help the NBA earn, the women are getting less than a fourth. Currently,. And while thats not a dollar amount to sniff at, these women only have so long to earn money off their athletic ability. 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. In contrast, NBA players receive about 50% of league revenue. Its been brought to public attention that the girls basketball teams at the final four have lower grade weight rooms and have been mistreated in their bubble. And yes, clearly the WNBA does not have enough revenue for its top players to be paid like similar top players in the NBA. So yes, it appears NBA referees do make more . Fact is the average WNBA salary, slightly less than $100,000, is roughly 1.5 percent of the average NBA salary, which exceeds $7 million. The men tend to play to impress or are just out there for the results, and we play for the process. From 2014 to 2017, Cambage competed in China and her native Australia. Has the WNBA made profit? Unlock premium content, ad-free browsing, and access to comments for just $4/month. Over in the WNBA, total revenue hit $60 million in 2022. The WNBA says players can make up to half a million dollars or more annually for four months' play between salary, bonuses, in-season tournaments and league and team marketing deals.. No one cares about the WNBA and no one watches their games lol. Instead, she has a very reasonable argument for why the players deserve more: Kelsey Plum was a guest on The Residency Pod where she laid out an obvious and easily fixable discrepancy between the NBA and WNBA. LeBronJames is one of the greatest athletes in human history, but if his sport of choice generated the public interest theWNBAhas, he would not be signing a $154 million dollar contract. . 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. 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