The latest CBA proposal from the Women's National Basketball Association to the WNBA Players Association includes a maximum base salary of $1 million in 2026, a source with knowledge of the situation told CBS Sports on Monday. The proposal -- which comes after the two sides recently agreed to a 40-day extension of the current CBA -- also includes a minimum salary of more than $225,000 and would bump the league's salary cap to $5 million in Year 1 of the new deal. The WNBA's minimum salary and salary cap were $66,079 and $1.5 million in the 2025 season, respectively.
The supermax in 2025 was $249,244. The league's proposal would push the max salary to seven figures and that number could be more than $1.2 million based on projected revenue sharing, per sources.
Meanwhile, the league's

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