Charted: How do top WNBA player salaries compare to the NBA?
The WNBA season tips off Friday, but players are eyeing more than just the scoreboard 맥스카지노 they맥스카지노re pushing for a higher salary cap.
The league and its players association have begun negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement, which determines the maximum teams can spend on player salaries.
The Hearst Data Journalism team took a look at how much the WNBA맥스카지노s top performers earned and compared those figures to their NBA counterparts.
Currently, the NBA맥스카지노s current salary cap is set at $140.5 million. The WNBA current salary cap is set at $1.3 million.
To put that into perspective, the minimum salary for an NBA player is $1.1 million, only $200,000 less than what an entire WNBA team can spend on all player salaries.
Meaning, the lowest-paid NBA player earns about five times more than the highest-paid WNBA player this season.
Take a look at the graphic below to see how NBA and WNBA salaries stacked up over the same seasons.