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Tom_Hanx_the_Actor@lemmy.world 4 months agoIt’s totally unfair to use Caitlin Clark as an example of the pay disparity as well. She’s a rookie on a pay scale. Her salary is less than half the average wnba salary. What’s really crazy to me is that the average salary is about 150k with only one woman making over 250k. For the salaries to be that flat seems odd compared to other pro sports but it’s just a part of the W having less revenue. Athletes have very strong unions also.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Dunno. It was comparing rookie against rookie.
250k is 4x the rookie salary. Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant and Nikola Jokic are also around 4x the 12m quoted salary.
Tom_Hanx_the_Actor@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Average NBA salary is about 10 million. So Wemby is getting paid like 120% the average in his league. Clark is getting about 50% the average in her league.