WNBA star A'ja Wilson weighs in on pro basketball gender pay gap: 'It's going to turn'
After the 2024 WNBA draft earlier this month, shock over the pay gap between the women’s league and NBA went viral — specifically around what No. 1 pick Caitlin Clark is expected to make.
After the 2024 WNBA draft earlier this month, shock over the pay gap between the women’s league and NBA went viral — specifically around what No. 1 pick Caitlin Clark is expected to make.
At the Time100 gala red carpet on Thursday in New York City, Las Vegas Aces center A’ja Wilson, who was being honored at the event, weighed in on recent headlines calling out the discrepancy between the WNBA and NBA rookie salaries.
“I feel like it happens all the time, when we’re in the draft, everybody always brings the contracts up and sees the difference, but it’s been like that for years,” Wilson, a former WNBA No. 1 pick herself, told TODAY.com.
“Now, it’s just up to us to continue to have a voice, and continue to have people invested in us and want to be real and take care of us as players, as athletes, and then we go from there,” Wilson added.
Clark is expected to make $76,535 in salary in her rookie season with the Indiana Fever, based on the WNBA’s rookie wage scale, according to contract tracking site Spotrac. (Clark also had lucrative endorsement deals dating from her college years and was reportedly set to sign a $28 million deal with Nike.)
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