Phoenix Mercury second on the list, followed by Seattle Storm<\/span><\/h2>\n \nWhen it comes to the financial landscape, professional women\u2019s sports leagues have a lot of ground to cover before they can even be compared with men\u2019s leagues. However, things are starting to look up as women\u2019s professional sports continue to gain more and more popularity and coverage.<\/span><\/p>\nAccording to the salary data on Statista (via Sportac), WNBA side Connecticut Sun is currently the side which offers the best wages, on average, to its players in the league.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nDuring the 2024 season, the Sun, which happens to be the only major league professional sports team based in Connecticut, are paying its players an average salary of $139,890 per annum.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThe likes of Phoenix Mercury, Seattle Storm, and New York Liberty are not further behind with all of them having an average salary of more than $130k.<\/span><\/p>\nLas Vegas Aces and Dallas Wings are next on the table with average salaries of $125.13k and $117.17k respectively.\u00a0 Minnesota Lynx are slightly further behind with an annual average salary of $116.78k, followed by Atlanta Dream at $112.6k.<\/span><\/p>\nThe last four spots on the list are taken by Washington Mystics ($110.32k), Indian Fever ($106.81k), Chicago Sky ($105.18k), and Los Angeles Sparks($104.66k).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nHighest individual salary is almost $242k<\/span><\/h2>\n \nWhen it comes to individual players, three players currently share the top spot in the salary charts.<\/span><\/p>\nJewell Loyd of Seattle Storm, Kahleah Copper of Phoenix Mercury, and Arike Ogunbowale of Dallas Wings all are earning a base salary of $241,984, and are the best paid players in WNBA currently.<\/span><\/p>\nDiana Taurasi of Phoenix Mercury is the fourth highest earner in WNBA with an annual salary of $234,936. Natasha Howard, Dallas Wings, is the last in our list of top five highest earning WNBA players with a base salary of $234,350.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s sports leagues have started to make foray into the mainstream sports during the past decade or so. In the United States, WNBA is one of the most popular professional women\u2019s sports leagues currently, and we are going to compare the salary data in the league. According to the numbers presented by SafeBettingSites.com, Connecticut Sun … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":44815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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