The National Women’s Soccer League reaches agreement to raise minimum salary to $82,500 in 2030

The league and its players’ union reached a new CBA that increases salaries and nearly doubles the salary cap over the next five years.

Last year, National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) game attendance rose by 26% and viewership leapt 41%. Now, players are getting a raise. The league and the NWSL Players Association reached a new collective bargaining agreement that will last until 2030. Of note, the new agreement will increase the minimum amount that players must be paid from $48,500 in 2025 to $82,500 by the end of the contract. The previous CBA, which was signed in 2022, set the minimum salary at $35,000. It was supposed to end in 2026, but the players and league began negotiating a new contract this summer in light of the NWSL’s recent growth.