{"id":115561,"date":"2026-03-25T06:56:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/wnba-signs-historic-agreement-million-dollar-salaries-and-labor-improvements\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T06:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:56:32","slug":"wnba-signs-historic-agreement-million-dollar-salaries-and-labor-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wnba\/wnba-signs-historic-agreement-million-dollar-salaries-and-labor-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA signs historic agreement: Million-dollar salaries and labor improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Historic New Agreement in the WNBA: A Turning Point in Women’s Sports<\/h2>\n\n\nThe WNBA and the Women’s National Basketball Players Association (WNBPA) have finalized and signed a framework agreement for a new collective bargaining agreement. This agreement will allow both parties to officially announce that they have reached a tentative agreement.\n\nThe terms were verbally agreed upon by both parties early Wednesday morning, after eight days and more than 100 hours of negotiation in Midtown Manhattan, New York. The agreement is pending ratification by the WNBA Board of Governors and the WNBPA player body, which could take a few more weeks.\n\n\n
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The agreement is one of the most transformative labor agreements ever reached in major professional sports.<\/p>\nLeague Press Release<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nIn the center of the new agreement is a revenue-sharing model that the league describes as “the first comprehensive revenue-sharing model in the history of women’s professional sports.” The league projects that the new system will provide more than a billion dollars in salaries and benefits for the players over the course of the agreement.\n\nThe salary cap for the 2026 season will be $7 million and will change annually based on the growth of the league and team revenues; it is expected to exceed $10 million by the end of the agreement.\n\nThe maximum salary is set at $1.4 million in 2026 and is expected to grow to over $2.4 million in 2032. The average salary is expected to be $583,000 in 2026 and exceed $1 million in 2032. Minimum salaries will range, depending on years of service, between $270,000 and $300,000 in 2026 and are expected to range between $340,000 and $380,000 in 2032.\n\nAccording to the new agreement, existing rookie scale contracts will be adjusted upwards. Upcoming rookie scale contracts will also experience large salary increases, and the number 1 pick of 2026 is expected to earn $500,000.\n\nThe agreement will also require teams to have 12 players on the roster, and they can now also have two additional spots for developing players that will not count towards the salary cap.\n\nThe 2026 season will continue to have 44 matches, and then the schedule will expand to 50 matches in 2027 and 2028 and then to 52 matches from 2029 to 2032.\n\nThe new collective bargaining agreement also addressed the housing issue, which emerged as a critical point in the negotiations after the league initially did not include it in its proposals. Teams have provided housing since the league’s first collective bargaining agreement in 1999.\n\nAccording to the new agreement, housing will be provided to all players in 2026, 2027 and 2028, and to players earning $500,000 or less in 2029 and 2030. Housing will be provided to new developing players each year.\n\nOther highlights of the agreement, according to the statement, include:\n\n\n