Caitlin Clark’s starting salary reveals major pay gap in women’s sports
The No. 1 draft pick is slated to make a little over $76,000 during her rookie season with the Indiana Fever - just quarters on the dollar compared to her male counterparts.
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Making 76k a year when the business you work for loses 10 million a year is such a tragedy....stfu
@mikegp1078
Ай бұрын
Straight up
@janikhybhober5240
Ай бұрын
Its 20mil
@ThomasFromTN
Ай бұрын
But you complain that athletes who make millions in a business that makes owners and ancillaries billions...get paid too much.
@l.austin2371
Ай бұрын
Right smh @ThomasFromTN
@kckillakrack9714
Ай бұрын
@@ThomasFromTNno one even has the opportunity to make money in sports without owners. That's like working for Tesla and being mad at Elon for making Tesla.
There's a pay gap in porn too. Male performers are paid pennies on the dollar compared to female performers. This is an outrage and needs to change...
@JS-gt5bh
Ай бұрын
😂
@fnuros429
Ай бұрын
This is the best point that can be made, it is market driven. A male cannot make as much as a female in Only fans, porn, instagram or any social media platform period that is just the way it is, nobody will pay to watch men undress
@derrickjones6442
Ай бұрын
A lot of men would take that job for free
@jasonallen3678
Ай бұрын
True 🤣🤣
@collegeguy799
Ай бұрын
Pennies? I'd do it for free.
I’m a truck driver and I’m butthurt. I deserve to get paid the same as NASCAR and F1 drivers.
@kingquestOZ
Ай бұрын
😂
@MrBubyV
Ай бұрын
🤣 👍🏽 point taken
@derrickjones6442
Ай бұрын
Good point 👉
@michaelmiguelicutti2829
Ай бұрын
F1 drivers make a boatload more than NASCAR drivers though.
@BRBallin1
Ай бұрын
Problem with your example is women don’t even have an avenue to earn high salaries at the highest level because WNBA is the biggest stage for them but the pay is not even $100k. Men at least can give it a shot and dedicate their life to their craft so they can become a millionaire. I’m sure the mediocre pay made a lot women not want to pursue a career even if they’re capable of doing so because they need to prioritize their time and energy towards earning good money.
The WNBA season is only four months long. $76,500 for only four months work is a dream job for most Americans.
@orangeandblackattack
Ай бұрын
cash your check, play your best in front of those 250 people in the stands and shut up. You cant complain when you cant generate profit
@BRBallin1
Ай бұрын
Didn’t even know that their season was shorter. In that case it’s decent pay but I believe the higher pay would incentivize women to compete harder. When the reward is higher people compete harder. If women made $1M in max salary then their players will compete harder to cement their talent as a max contract caliber talent. Otherwise if the pay between min to max is too low they won’t compete that hard
There is no pay gap. WNBA does not sell nearly the amount of tickets as NBA.
@metalmacabre9991
Ай бұрын
Exactly right, well said. They don't generate the type of money the NBA does.
@l.austin2371
Ай бұрын
Clark should of took ice cubes offee
@DarkPassenger
Ай бұрын
The WNBA hasn't turned a profit in the existence of the league.
@orangeandblackattack
Ай бұрын
not to mention the gap represents the diff of talent level perfectly. The top 5 High School boys teams in the US would destroy every WNBA team. lol
@orangeandblackattack
Ай бұрын
For 30 years, the WNBA has lost millions which goes to the NBA financial books. 30 years playing in front of what? 300 people a night? This is all on the broads..not on the men. we gave u a league and no women libbers showed up. all they do is whine, which is why guys arent worried about libbers..we know they will fail lol
this is like saying there is a pay gap between the AFL and the NFL 😂
@n64central
Ай бұрын
AFL doesn’t even exist anymore. How old are you lol
"These women have been underpaid for decades".......She left out the part that about how these women havent turned a profit in decades
@metalmacabre9991
Ай бұрын
Well said. You can't pay them big bucks, if they don't generate the big bucks.
@chads.6927
Ай бұрын
I must correct your statement . "haven't turned a profit EVER"......there ya go .....always glad to help out.
@asapmimic1289
Ай бұрын
They’ve never had a profit
When are male models going to be paid the same as female models?????
Last year WNBA brought in $200 Million. The NBA brought in just over $10 Billion… I guess I’m missing something…
@christoffelster6303
Ай бұрын
I think they a still misleading. 200 million doesn’t pay all their bills with out the nba subsidising. To really keep the lights on without the nba these girls would be paying 70k year to play.
@JohnSmith-oe5kx
Ай бұрын
The WNBA never brought in $200 million, that is apparently the prediction for next year, but it smells like baloney to me (like the supposed $1 billion valuation of the league suggested by the recent capital raise of $75 million). Some sources claim that the NBA brought in $102 million last year but most sources cite only $60 million, I have not seen any credible sources. Whatever the real figures, $200 million would be at least a 100% increase in revenue that I doubt has ever been accomplished by any professional league. Perhaps some of that increase is already in the bank if they have sold TV rights, I really do not care enough to check.
WNBA players aren't underpaid. They play for a league that loses money. They are lucky to still be in business. They are crazy if they think Caitlin Clark is going to make the league profitable some how.
@JS-gt5bh
Ай бұрын
She might....if people pay to see her play...we will see...
@rasaecnai
Ай бұрын
They are not "lucky" to be in business. NBA gives them money to continue.
The pay gap is EARNED.
Here we go!....
@RedMisfit
Ай бұрын
Exactly here we go with the leftist, liberal nonsense…
@Asterisks12
Ай бұрын
@@RedMisfit you already know, when that lady was talking about the pay disparity, she didn't mention the crucial detail...viewership, more men watch WNBA then women aslo the nba supports them more then they do themselves lol
@jackswanson8326
Ай бұрын
@@Asterisks12*than
@PierreCausemybladderisempty
Ай бұрын
This is exactly why no one watches womens professional sports, especially the WNBA
@leonardomoore1868
Ай бұрын
@@RedMisfitass clown leftist and liberals have nothing to do with WNBA salaries.When they start promoting their players better and start to put more people in the seats then the pay raises will come other than that STFU.
Ladies let me break this down for you. You're paid what you're worth. The viewership for the WNBA is exponentially less than it is for the NBA and the salaries of the players reflect this. Men should not be forced to watch the WNBA. If you want player salaries to increase then women need to step up and start tuning into the WNBA games. Increased viewership = increased revenue = increased player salaries. That's how this all works in the real world....
@jinov191
Ай бұрын
They always want to place a higher value on themselves than what they are worth, if the NBA generated less money than the WNBA and the men said there is a pay gap they would be told that they are paid what they are worth and the media would not make an issue out of it. The WNBA can go bust for all I care.
If you want all WNBA players to earn more then all those women who are complaining should start showing up to WNBA games and encouraging all their family and friends to show up as well. Sports salaries are attendance driven. More people showing up means higher salary. Look at the Oakland A's. One of the lowest attendance in baseball. Are the players making big bucks compared to other teams.
The WNBA is subsidized by the NBA. Secondly, if women could make it to the NBA they would be paid just like other players. Different league different pay.
That's an incredible salary for playing in a league that nobody watches. The reality is that professional adult womens basketball should be a weekend hobby league where they play for fun considering the WNBA can't turn a profit, thankfully the NBA subsidizes their pay for them but instead of being grateful for that kind gesture some of them whine and complain they deserve more pay(to be fair I have yet to hear Caitlin complain about her salary so this is not directed at her)
As a male only fans model I want paid as much as my female counterparts. This is sexist!
She's just fine. She will make millions in endorsements as she deserves.
@christoffelster6303
Ай бұрын
But she’ll never make as much as Lebron. So they will forever complain.
You can’t pay what you don’t have.
@NickM_FirstofHisName
Ай бұрын
You think they'd lose sleep about dipping in men's pockets? USWNT sleeps just fine.
All the women who see this as an issue. 9/10 Never bought tickets for a game, merch, or watched a game from start to finish.
Anyone who watches basketball before the media started promoting Clark nonstop already knew that WNBA players make less. They shouldn't be compared to NBA players because they couldn't get a single point in an NBA game.
Gap is perfectly representative of the talent level as well if everybody was on the same court.
WNBA teams also play less than half the amount of games an NBA team does. She was offered to play in Big3, 10 week season for 5 mil but I’m sure she was scared to play against the big boys.
Haven't we heard this argument time and time again. Have you seen any WNBA games? The performance level is just plain embarrassing. Playing in basically empty stadiums. They don't produce any revenue. Nobody can even name 5 players from the league.
The pay gap is that of a successful league vs an unsuccessful league.
like my 10yo daughter said "its hard to watch" and thats being nice?!😂
The WNBA has never made a profit The NBA has covered the League it's whole time it's been established..
There is a REVENUE gap - there is an attendance GAP and there is a pay gap between female athletes and female reality TV celebs.
The media doesn’t like talking about the revenue gap.
@EddieHenderson92
Ай бұрын
They've propaganda to push.
I bet the majority of people complaining about pay gap can't even name the WNBA team/teams from their states...🤷♂️
There should be a pay gap the league doesn't make $$$$$$
This is such a tone deaf, intellectually disingenuous take on the so-called pay gap issue. Clark may move the needle to get butts in seats, but any salary discrepancy is the WNBA's fault.
338K in 4 years is 120K more than the average American will make in that same time. Second, it would take me 12 years to make that equal amount. Also, the WNBA does not make a profit, it is run at a loss by the NBA.
Basic Economics and Finance!!!
All of these people complaining never watched or attended a WNBA game
If women go to the game and buy the merchandise and watch the games they will get paid more.
They could make a lot more money if they took up that bet to play the all-American high school boy’s team.
There are some that think equality means everyone gets the same thing. Then there are the sane people who believe equality means everyone getting what they deserve.
The laws of physics do not change on the court. On average, men are considerably faster, stronger, and better coordinated than women, as definitively proven by science. The best WNBA player could never make it into the NBA. And the worst NBA player would be the WNBA's MVP!
@brianlevine249
Ай бұрын
Plus all the feminist women who scream they deserve more money would never actually go watch a game Especially if a ticket was $100.
I guarantee that the women who are complaining about the WNBA pay have never even been to a WNBA game!
These women make more proportionally as compared to the men in the nba
it makes sense if you compare revenue v nba, but players like her and Ionescu will change that to some degree
@tony4534
Ай бұрын
They won’t lol
Stop comparing the men. It's not inequality. The NBA has been around for over 70 years. Guys were taking the bus and fighting Wars while playing basketball. Women need to support the women's games, then the money will come. No women are complaining about baseball, hockey or NFL salaries because those sports won't even start a league for women. The NBA didn't have to even start a league for women. You're not going to force them to pay more when no women attend the games. Hopefully it changes but stop blaming the men's game. It took decades for the men to make this money. Go attack the other major sports as well.
Got people swinging a hammer 🔨 for that amount of
Instead of complaining to whoever about women being underpaid how about you tell people to show up to games and buy jerseys because that’s the only thing that will help OBVIOUSLY like come on lady
Somebody else’s salary is NONE of our business. She can take it or leave it. Same with all of us working people.
It should be alot more overall. Maybe $250k for the more franchise players.
Fire all the bench warmers in wnba and then spread that salary among the starters.
You know she made over $3 Million from NIL deals in college...
Christine Brennan said something that i agree with and also disagree with. When talking about wnba players earning more money, she is correct that the way that happens is by players like Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, and others bringing more eyes to the game which in turn will bring more fans and more revenue so that players can be paid more. I disagree that wnba players have been underpaid. They have been paid based on the revenue the wnba generates each year. 200 million a year split among not only players but coaches, general managers, trainers, stadium expenses, employees, etc. That's really not a lot of money, especially when the nba is subsidizing the wnba 10 million every season
In the championship games broadcast on TV, almost all of the seats are empty. This number one draft pick is not even worth $76,000 for her rookie season. Ironically, she should pay to play.
I hope she doesn't starve after Nike gave her a $25M deal. Poor thing.
Exactly! She will change the face of sports. Old white guy here
If you are outraged by this pay gap, please, watch the WNBA and spend money on their merchandise. This is why the gap exists. More people watch NBA.
Pay gap? How many wnba jerseys do u see out in the public being worn by fans? There is not inequality. They make what their product is worth
Its crazy how diverse the wnba is since they are all about the same size and even when they aren't, they can't dunk anyways
If women in sports want more money, tell the networks to produce their games more like trashy reality shows
Her WNBA contract is actually similar to Michael Jordan initial contract with the Bulls, he was making like 40 million a year in endorsements and wasn't even the highest paid player on his own team. Those TV deals mean everything for players salaries.
The NBA made about 10 BILLION in 2022. The WNBA made under 200 Million ..... $76,000 seems more than fair. Im sure she is making a pretty penny from those State Farm Commercials, On the plus side , they generate more money for the league , Im sure it will reflect on the salary after the owners recoup for their initial investments, that seems more than fair too
For those outraged, you just need to go watch more WNBA games.
I think people need to realize that the nba and wnba is a business. The players will only make as much money as the league makes more money. When they make more they’ll get paid it has nothing to do with gender at all.
Is $76000 a month or a year? Damn 😢😢😢. I’m not from Indiana and I don’t watch the WNBA but I’ll cos of her and Angel Reese ❤❤
How can Kamilla give her family better life on 76K/year? Kate Martin will be cut by the Aces.
Very fair when ticket sales determine the salary. Women’s sports, in general, just don’t bring in the revenue needed for higher salaries. You can’t get blood from a stone.
@chads.6927
Ай бұрын
women actually get a higher percentage of revenue generated then the men ,,,,,just like the woman's national soccer team. Combine that with the fact that they lose millions in the wnba every season and her salary is basically CHARITY.
Tell the WNBA to make money instead of losing millions a season.
If you are not making money you can't play the players how do people not see this????? There are no butts in seats at WNBA games, merch doesn't get sold...there is no money coming in!!! Hopefully it changes with CC and the others but it remains to be seen....
She will make millions with sponsorship.
What a complete joke. These people are insufferable.
Pay gap, as in the highest paid veteran WNBA salary vs 2024 first draft player? That should be where the question is flowing? Completely different if the question is going towards the NBA. Unless she is being drafted there too
When the WNBA generates the money that the NBA does, come on back for this conversation. Until then, there is no disparity in the pay of basketball players.
No, the pay gap is that they play basketball to entertain for $76,000, and high school teachers only dream of making that much by the time they retire, working 9 1/2 months out of the year. This reporter needs to take an economics and finance class.
How can you understand the marketing, revenue and ad contribution plays a role in salary but then claim wnba players are underpaid? It’s a subsidized league, paid by the men. On its own, it would have gone bankrupt.
Oh please I’ve been saying this about the wnba and ppl laughed at me , Now all of a sudden it’s an issue. Yeah ok , I make more than that. The problem isn’t the money , the problem is these athletes are getting paid too much. Hell , my job is more important to society. I’m the one that needs to be getting millions. No one would be able to drive anywhere without my profession.
This is BS!!! Chingy should make just as much as Taylor Swift, they are both professional singers and both do so at high levels.
Never seen WNBA game & never see myself sitting through whole WNBA game. Note: Am not basketball fan, but had seen acouple of NBA games.
I would love to see the development of female basketball but it comes down to the business. If the WNBA was raking in the same as their male counterpart we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Logical sense should tell anyone the facts, it’s not sexist it’s just that woman’s professional sports doesn’t generate the capital that men’s sports does, plain and simple whether you like it or not that’s a fact.
She is good
I'd rather watch water boil than the WNBA.
@spang9782
Ай бұрын
Seriously? Grass growing is WAY more exciting! 😄
@reckless110
Ай бұрын
I agree. There's Way more action happening when water boils lol
Shame on the media for not speaking the truth. Blame the fans, blame the people for not paying more attention to women's sports. You seriously think WNBA owners can afford to pay their female players the same salary as male NBA players? Hell naw, the NBA is worldwide they have far more fans that will pay whatever the price is to attend their games. NBA has a far more superior marketing, promotional, hell freaking everything etc. WNBA cant compete with that guess why, the fans in all the states the teams are in. Fans whether spend they money on NBA athletes then WNBA athletes.
These players should be on a profit share deal. That would be fair right?
@jinov191
Ай бұрын
They would then complain even more.
@AB-nv7bz
Ай бұрын
@@jinov191 It was a joke. A profit share deal would mean the wnba players would need to pay.
She is free to tryout for the NBA no rules stating only men are allowed to
Well there are pay gaps for NBA players and other basketball players who plays overseas such as in Europe or in Aia, or even those playing in the G League. No one is complaining about how the NBA makes many times the salary of those players. They are all basketball players are they not? It is the same here. Why are they crying foul?
Apparently it reveals reality to some as well.
Do the people mad about this think that sports revenue come from the magic revenue fairy? When the sport makes more money - the players will be paid according to the value owners place on them. In the case of the big-4 US sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL) this works out really well for the players. It also works out pretty well in other sports like Soccer, Cricket, Golf and Tennis for some players. It even works out really well for women in sports where the women's division sees a lot of revenue like Tennis and MMA. The owners WANT to make money -- so they'll reward those players who help them bring revenue to the sport. But they have to do so _at a level that is sustainable_ based on the total amount of revenue the sport brings in. Compare an NBA stadium packed with fanatic fans who will pay hundreds of dollars for seat for every game to an WNBA game that is half-empty even when they are practically giving tickets away. Don't like the disparity? Go to the games. Spend money on the merchandise. There isn't a magic revenue fairy -- YOU are the revenue that determines how much these players will make.
There's 60 people with every WNBA game and half of them are players
It would be a shame if the NBA is let to be ruined because of the non-earned pay gap.
Starting to feel like I should start a company named Wamazon and if/when I don't make a profit, label it a pay disparity. I suspect these very some ladies would just say "of course, you dont make as much as Amazon. It's because you don't sell as much as they do." Selective with the logic. 😊
I side with the female basketball players on this. They definitely should get a lot less than male athletes but the salaries need to be $150k minimum and max salaries as $1M. Otherwise the competition level will remain trash. If they bring more attractive salaries then more women will want to compete. Same way people become doctors and go through 10 years of medical school/college to earn $300-600k. If they made $75k too nobody in their right mind would want to become doctors or the doctors we end up with are gonna be trash
Omg you guys, competative tag players also make less than NBA players, such a huge paygap
Sell more tickets, then you get increased pay. Very few people care about the WNBA.
There's no new information to share. The salary gap isn't an issue here. She's a WNBA player, not in the NBA, so her earnings should be compared within the WNBA. In essence, there's nothing of note to discuss. Move on. Also, the columnist they brought in, who initially raised concerns about unequal pay, paradoxically argues for the low salaries, stating, "It's all about capitalism. For a generation, people haven't been buying tickets, WATCHED or bought WNBA products advertised on TV." Exactly! This is why their salaries are low-it's not about equal pay!
Pay them with what money?
The NBA owns 50% of the WNBA according to the internet. How does that work? How does that potentially affect salaries?
Let them play against men, and set their salary determined by the result, how about that?
Women should just be happy they were given a platform and just play and have fun. After all that is what it is all about. I am sure none of them really expect to be paid for what they do after seeing men’s basketball
Shes lucky to get that. Put her on the NBA court and she wouldnt be worth a plug nickel. She coukdnt make an NBA team. Women lose the NBA $20-40 million a year because they leave out the fact that the NBA gave them their league and eat the losses. WNBA should pay those salaries back to the NBA.
Profitability-driven salary. Men’s basketball kinda sucks right now so if they keep outperforming, I’m sure the pendulum will swing their way.
@jinov191
Ай бұрын
WNBA out performing the NBA? 9-10 billion dollars generated annually compared to about 200 million, yeah it appears that they "kinda suck."
The salary is just part of the overall opportunity. The sponsor deals will take th3 major part of it for sure. But the inequality is never the issue, woman basketball show earn their way towards making wnba much better and everyone should put more effort on bringing it into reality
Want NBA money, have NBA skills which she doesn't.
@mikewayne6608
Ай бұрын
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