The WNBA and WNBPA continue to spar over revenue sharing as the two sides negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement, SBJ reported on Thursday, Dec. 4.
WNBA players got 9.3% of the revenue under the old CBA and opted out of that agreement last October. A bump of a little over 5% in revenue share is not what the union had hoped for or will accept, SBJ reported.
The WNBA’s latest proposal, reported earlier this week, would also raise the salary cap to $5 million a season per team, with increasing the cap over the length of the CBA tied to revenue growth. The minimum player salary would rise to $225,000, the average salary to $500,000 and max $1 million. Under the current CBA, the salary cap is $1.5 million a season per team. The minimum player salary is around $66,000, with the maximum salary worth just north of $249,000.
The two sides agreed to keep the current CBA intact while they hammer out the new deal. They extended the deadline to Jan. 9.