WNBA players make between $39,000 and $115,000 per season. They have the nerve to complain about how they're underpaid. Here's a great article about how they're OVERpaid:
WNBA Players Should Stop Complaining. If Anything, They're Overpaid
"Of course the real issue has nothing to do with sexism and everything to do with the fact that the WNBA simply isn’t very popular with Americans. For example,
last month the WNBA averaged 250,000 viewers per game with a high of 378,000. Relative to the history of the league, this was an extraordinary success, up 39 percent from last year. By comparison, last year’s Professional Bowling League averaged
650,000 viewers for ESPN."
Pro Bowling has more than double the TV audience.
"Of course TV ratings themselves are less important to this topic than dollars attached to their television contracts, and to the WNBA’s credit, ESPN doubled the value of their contract with the league to $25 million a year in 2016. This has led
David Berri of Forbes to argue that because WNBA salaries make up less than a quarter of league revenue, as opposed to the NBA’s 50 percent split, the WNBA is clearly exploiting their players. Undermining Berri’s position, though, is the simple observation that revenue is not the same as profit – another measure by which the WNBA has consistently struggled. As
The New York Times reported in 2016,only half of WNBA teams have managed to become profitable 20 years after the league’s founding.
A case can be made that WNBA players are actually overpaid relative to what consumers actually want. After all, the WNBA is subsidized by the NBA in a variety of ways, including by direct financial support, free publicity, and the fact that many WNBA franchises are owned by the city’s NBA owner. In fact, the WNBA’s big television contract
was itself a byproduct of the channel reworking its agreement with their male counterpart."