re: WNBA #1 Pick upset about gender pay gap between NBA and WNBA

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NBA produce $5.9 Billion in revenue as a leauge last year.

WNBA brought in $25 million as another poster noted.

If you want the same percentages, the average revenue per team is:

NBA = $197 Million
WNBA = $2.1 Million

The women bring in literally 1% of the revenue that the men do and play less than half the games the men do.

So based on the average NBA Salary being $6.2 million/year, that means, the average WNBA salary should be $66k/year. Instead their actual salary is almost $72k/year. That means that are overpaid by nearly 10%

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