Current:Home > ContactCaitlin Clark WNBA salary, contract terms: How much will she earn as No. 1 pick? -WealthRoots Academy
Caitlin Clark WNBA salary, contract terms: How much will she earn as No. 1 pick?
View
Date:2025-04-14 16:58:30
It's official: Former Iowa women's basketball star Caitlin Clark is off to the WNBA, as the NCAA's all-time scoring leader was selected No. 1 overall by the Indiana Fever in Monday's WNBA draft.
Clark, the game's brightest star, already was reportedly among the top earners in all of college sports with various NIL deals. She will still make lots of money on her sponsorships as she joins the WNBA. Her sponsorships include State Farm, Gatorade, Nike, Xfinity, H&R Block, and Panini America among others. Clark also already has a regional sponsor in the Indianapolis area. She signed a deal with Gainbridge, an insurance and annuity company.
Clark's season ended with a national championship loss for the second consecutive season, when the Hawkeyes fell to undefeated South Carolina on April 7. Just eight days later, Clark is a professional. The first four selected players of the WNBA draft earn the same contract, so Clark, Cameron Brink, Kamilla Cardoso and Rickea Jackson — who rounded out the top four picks — will each make the same amount of money next season.
MORE:WNBA commissioner sidesteps question on All-Star Game in Arizona - an anti-abortion state
MORE:How Angel Reese will fit in with the Chicago Sky. It all starts with rebounding
Here's Clark's contract, according to the value of the pick set by the WNBA:
Caitlin Clark contract details
Caitlin Clark will receive a four-year contract worth a total of $338,056, according to the WNBA's CBA.
The first four picks of the WNBA draft are each slotted at the same value, meaning Clark, Brink, Cardoso and Jackson will each receive the same amount of money. Here's the year-by-year breakdown of Clark's contract (it has not been announced if she has signed):
- 2024: $76,535
- 2025: $78,066
- 2026: $85,873
- 2027 (fourth-year option): $97,582
Contributing: Chloe Peterson, Indianapolis Star
veryGood! (87)
Related
- Hackers hit Rhode Island benefits system in major cyberattack. Personal data could be released soon
- Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Full Speed Ahead With Girlfriend Heather Milligan During Biking Date
- Lina Khan is taking swings at Big Tech as FTC chair, and changing how it does business
- Alaska’s Dalton Highway Is Threatened by Climate Change and Facing a Highly Uncertain Future
- The city of Chicago is ordered to pay nearly $80M for a police chase that killed a 10
- A multiverse of 'Everything Everywhere' props are auctioned, raising $555K for charity
- Pride Funkos For Every Fandom: Disney, Marvel, Star Wars & More
- Inside Clean Energy: What Lauren Boebert Gets Wrong About Pueblo and Paris
- US appeals court rejects Nasdaq’s diversity rules for company boards
- Does the 'Bold Glamour' filter push unrealistic beauty standards? TikTokkers think so
Ranking
- Louvre will undergo expansion and restoration project, Macron says
- Nordstrom says it will close its Canadian stores and cut 2,500 jobs
- Man, woman charged with kidnapping, holding woman captive for weeks in Texas
- And Just Like That's Costume Designers Share the Only Style Rule they Follow
- Spooky or not? Some Choa Chu Kang residents say community garden resembles cemetery
- Titanic Submersible Passenger Shahzada Dawood Survived Horrifying Plane Incident 5 Years Ago With Wife
- Warming Trends: Cooling Off Urban Heat Islands, Surviving Climate Disasters and Tracking Where Your Social Media Comes From
- Warming Trends: Swiping Right and Left for the Planet, Education as Climate Solution and Why It Might Be Hard to Find a Christmas Tree
Recommendation
What were Tom Selleck's juicy final 'Blue Bloods' words in Reagan family
As Powerball jackpot rises to $1 billion, these are the odds of winning
In Pennsylvania’s Hotly Contested 17th Congressional District, Climate Change Takes a Backseat to Jobs and Economic Development
39 Products To Make the Outdoors Enjoyable if You’re an Indoor Person
The FBI should have done more to collect intelligence before the Capitol riot, watchdog finds
39 Products To Make the Outdoors Enjoyable if You’re an Indoor Person
Inside Clean Energy: The Energy Storage Boom Has Arrived
Indigenous Land Rights Are Critical to Realizing Goals of the Paris Climate Accord, a New Study Finds