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Steph Curry's wage compared to the full Golden State Valkyries WNBA squad has emerged online arsenic statement implicit the wage spread betwixt the men's and women's games continues.
The immense salary difference betwixt the NBA and WNBA deed the headlines again astatine the weekend's WNBA All-Star Game.
Players warmed up successful achromatic t-shirts with achromatic substance reading: "Pay america what you beryllium us."
The protestation came aft the league and its players failed to hold connected a caller corporate bargaining agreement.
Under the existent deal, WNBA players are entitled to a 4th of profits connected the information that the league conscionable their gross targets each year.
According to IndyStar, a subordinate per squad tin gain up to $250,000 per year, portion rookie contracts commencement astatine $72,000.
By comparison, in the NBA, players person fractional of each gross generated, careless of gross targets being met.
Steph Curry is 1 of the highest-paid players successful the NBA. (Image: Tim Warner / Stringer via Getty Images)
How overmuch does Curry earn?
Steph Curry has been 1 of the NBA's biggest stars implicit the past decade, winning 4 titles and 2 MVP awards.
He has spent his full vocation with the Golden State Warriors, who are owned by Joe Lacob and Peter Guber.
Lacob and Guber besides ain WNBA's Golden State Valkryies, but their players' salaries are dwarfed by Curry's.
Curry, who is 37, earns astir $60 cardinal a year, portion the full Valkryies roster pouch conscionable $1 million.
There are galore different figures which exemplify the opposition betwixt the 2 hoops leagues.
In the WNBA, the rookie minimum is $66,000 compared to a immense $1.27 cardinal successful the NBA.
And the fig of players who get paid is besides noteworthy.
NBA teams person 15 full-time players and 3 'two-way players' from the second-tier G League.
But successful the WNBA, teams are constricted to 12 players, portion immoderate lone person eight.
WNBA players person made their feelings wide connected the wage gap. (Image: Steph Chambers / Staff via Getty)
What did Angel Reese say?
Reese was drafted for the Chicago Sky successful 2024 and made the All-Star successful her debut campaign.
She moved to Rose BC for 2025 and was an All-Star again.
In 2024, Reese spoke to ESPN and said her $73,439 wage did not screen her monthly rent of $8,000, which came to $96,000 per year.
She said: "I conscionable anticipation y’all cognize the WNBA don’t wage my bills astatine all.
“I don’t adjacent deliberation that pays 1 of my bills, [the salary] isn't capable to wage my car note, I wouldn’t adjacent beryllium capable to eat, I wouldn’t beryllium capable to live.
"I'm surviving beyond my means!"
Reese revealed her income exceeded six figures acknowledgment to different endorsements and a spot successful the Unrivalled 3-on-3 league.
