Caitlin Clark's WNBA Salary Is 0.76% of Her NBA Counterpart's and the People Are Enraged

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—whose enormous talent on the court has been credited with bringing in unprecedented viewership to women's college basketball—has , you'd think she's about to get majorly paid.

Well, you'd be wrong. Caitlin Clark's salary as the WNBA's number one pick will be $76,535 a year, according to the .For scale, the NBA's number one draft pick will earn more than $10 million.

The Prada outfit Clark wore to the draft is worth about 22% of her entire yearly salary, per 's estimate. And guess what? The people are pissed.On X (formerly Twitter), reactions ranged from the genuinely stunned to the sadly unsurprised.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.One person on Twitter observed, “On this salary Caitlin Clark would qualify for low income housing in San Francisco.” Another person noted, “What if I told y’all this is a great improvement from just 5 years ago.

A lot of them used to come in making 40k.”This content can also be viewed on the site it from.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.By Kathleen WalshBy Charley RossBy Arancha GamoMany compared Caitlin Clark's reported salary to that of a , or a “,” or a, “,” or a .This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Others pointed out that Clark will still likely be making money from endorsement deals, even if that's not really the point. “Genuinely insane how low of a salary she’ll be making.