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Message: [QUOTE="and one, post: 4182475, member: 10475"] I'm happy that Stewie will spend another year with Sue and I'm sure Sue thinks the same. I couldn't help but notice that Stewie will earn a super-max salary of $228K. The pay disparity between earning power of men and women athletes is well discussed, here and elsewhere, and I don't want to get into the sociology and economics of why this is so, but that $228 number just jumps out at you. Stewie gets $228K for a season in the WNBA as the best women's basketball player on the planet. $228K is a nice salary, certainly more than most working stiffs make, and she should net about $170K after taxes. What that salary won't do is make her wealthy and have enough set aside after her career is done to live well. Granted she makes most of her money overseas. Most WNBA players make far less in the WNBA than Stewie and may or may not get the big bucks that the best WNBA players get overseas. For the most part women basketball players aren't going to be able to earn enough during their career to have substantial wealth when they retire. For comparison, minimum salaries (from 2019) for men's basketball, baseball, football and hockey: Baseball - $507K Basketball - $582K Football - $465K Hockey - $650K In the NBA the 124th highest salary (for 2021) was $10M for one Thomas Satoranski of the Pelicans. Luka Doncic also makes $10M a year, but not for long. [/QUOTE]