For the 2024 season of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), the salary cap for players with a Supermaximum contract was set at approximately 242 thousand U.S. dollars. This contract type is usually only available for veterans who have spent a minimum of five or six years with the same franchise, depending on when they were signed. However, rookies who receive contract extensions are also eligible for earning a salary in the upper-bracket. Meanwhile, players without Supermaximum contracts or rookie scale extensions had their maximum salary set at approximately 208 thousand U.S. dollars.
Player salaries in the WNBA are determined by the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), which is negotiated between the league and the players union (Women's National Basketball Players Association). The last CBA was concluded in January 2020 and set the league's salary structure for seasons through to 2027.
Maximum player salary in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) in the United States from 2020 to 2027, by contract type
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* The source provides a full list of circumstances for earning a salary in the upper-bracket:
"For: (i) Player Contracts entered into between a Qualifying Veteran Free Agent with six (6) or more Years of Service (or, beginning with the 2021 Salary Cap Year, five (5) or more Years of Service) and her Prior Team; (ii) Player Contracts entered into between a Veteran Free Agent who is designated as a Core Player and her Prior Team; (iii) Extensions of Rookie Scale Contracts with Draft Rookies; and (iv) Veteran Extensions with a player who, at the time such Veteran Extension is entered into, has six (6) or more Years of Service (or, beginning with the 2021 Salary Cap Year, five (5) or more Years of Service) and has played under one or more Player Contracts covering some or all of each of the two preceding Seasons and either played exclusively with her Prior Team during such two Seasons, or, if she played with more than one Team during such period, changed Teams only (x) by means of assignment, or (y) by signing with her Prior Team during the first of the two Seasons".
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WNBA. (January 22, 2020). Maximum player salary in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) in the United States from 2020 to 2027, by contract type (in 1,000 U.S. dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved April 25, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1462955/maximum-player-salary-wnba/
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WNBA. (2020). Maximum player salary in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) in the United States from 2020 to 2027, by contract type (in 1,000 U.S. dollars). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: April 25, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1462955/maximum-player-salary-wnba/
WNBA. "Maximum Player Salary in The Women's National Basketball Association (Wnba) in The United States from 2020 to 2027, by Contract Type (in 1,000 U.S. Dollars)." Statista, Statista Inc., 22 Jan 2020, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1462955/maximum-player-salary-wnba/
WNBA, Maximum player salary in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) in the United States from 2020 to 2027, by contract type (in 1,000 U.S. dollars) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1462955/maximum-player-salary-wnba/ (last visited April 25, 2025)
Maximum player salary in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) in the United States from 2020 to 2027, by contract type (in 1,000 U.S. dollars) [Graph], WNBA, January 22, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1462955/maximum-player-salary-wnba/
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