Caitlin Clark has appeared to make a thinly veiled complaint about her Indiana Fever salary after leading her team to another victory in the WNBA on Sunday.
Fever beat Seattle Storm 92-75 on Sunday with Clark scoring 23 points. It is her team’s second straight win after returning from the Olympics-enforced midseason break.
Clark was speaking post-game alongside teammate Lexie Hull, who scored 22 points herself in a breakout game and was asked if she was going to be buying season tickets for her family from here on.
Clark interjected: ‘Those are pretty expensive. Our salaries… it is like our entire salary to get those. I’m not kidding. We need people to help.’
Hull added: ‘I might have to (get tickets). We’ll make sure that people get working on that. We’ll have someone work on that for sure.’
Caitlin Clark made a joke about her salary after Indiana Fever beat Seattle Storm on Sunday
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Clark earns a base wage of $76,000 in her rookie WNBA season. Hull, who signed a three-year, $217,000 with Fever earns $77,000 this season, narrowly more than Clark.
The cost of season tickets started at around $1,600 for the team, meanwhile, and given the success Clark has had in her rookie year, are only set to rise.
The 22-year-old has helped drive a meteoric rise in interest around the WNBA after being drafted first by the Fever in New York earlier this year.
Her opening contract with the Fever lasts four years and overall is worth $338,056.
Clark’s salary goes up to $78,066 in year two before climbing further to $85,873 in year three. If her fourth-year option is taken, Clark will then earn $97,582.
Clark’s base salary is limited by the WNBA’s collective bargaining agreement, which was negotiated in 2020, before she started playing college basketball at Iowa.
The current CBA runs through 2027, though there is an option to end it sooner, and perhaps that will happen if Clark continues to bring the sort of monster ratings to the WNBA.
Clark and her Fever team have won both their games since returning to WNBA action
Last month, the WNBA secured a $2.2billion television deal spanning 11 seasons while Clark continues to sell out Fever games at NBA arenas.
She also stands to make millions of the court as well. Clark signed an eight-year, $28million Nike shoe deal in April before playing her first WNBA game.
The Fever currently stand at 13-15 and occupy seventh place with the top eight making the post-season playoffs.
They play next on Saturday against Minnesota Lynx.
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