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"And more than a fair wage, it's time to respect the dignity of work and the autonomy of women." "So now feels like the time to pivot.we are in a strong position to pay these players a fair wage," she says. In addition to garnering more than 650,000 viewers for its Challenge Cup Final, NWSL has CBS as a broadcast partner and sponsors like Nationwide, Budweiser, Ally Bank and Secret, Burke emphasizes.

But now, as the NWSL sits in its ninth season with 10 teams and two expansion teams scheduled for 2022, she says the NWSL is "in a very strong position" to ask for more for its players. "So this business launched with an eye towards survival on the backs of poverty wages," Burke adds.

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"We're in the third iteration of women's professional soccer so it's fair to say that there's some cautiousness around controlling the expenses," she says, referring to the Women's United Soccer Association that lasted from 2000-2003 and the Women's Professional Soccer league that lasted from 2009 to roughly 2012. Now, as head of the players association, the league's first official union, she said she wants to ensure that current and future players have a different experience. "And now, we want to tie that into what is happening right here at home."Īs a former player herself, Burke said she "donated plasma to buy groceries and scrubbed toilets and delivered pizza" when she was playing in the league. women's soccer team have filed an equal pay suit and we certainly support what they're doing in elevating the national conversation around equal pay," says NWSLPA Executive Director Meghann Burke. And Kat Williamson, a former defender for the team Portland Thorns FC, said she has "cleaned homes for extra money and worked at a dental office as a receptionist." Jessica McDonald, a player for the North Carolina Courage of the NWSL, shared that as a player she's "worked at Amazon packing boxes during 10 hour days" while also raising her son. In response to the NWSLPA #NoMoreSideHustles campaign many current and former players expressed on Twitter how they've had to work two, and sometimes three jobs, due to their low pay. Though living arrangements may have improved since she retired in 2018, Stanley says the scenario of players working extra jobs to earn a livable wage remains the same. "I think that's gotten a little better because a lot of teams now provide apartments, but when I was in the league I was not provided an apartment." "That was very common for NWSL players to live with host families," she says. She also lived with a host family for part of her career because she couldn't afford an apartment on her own.

Stanley, who played for multiple NWSL teams during her three years in the league, says her salary was so low that she had to work odd jobs as a babysitter and coach while playing soccer professionally. By NWSLPA estimates, a third of their player association members make the league's minimum salary and about 75% make $31,000 or less. However, Burke and the NWSLPA estimate that number to be much higher, explaining that team salary caps are $682,500, which is to be divided by the average number of 24 players on a team. The NWSL says that 4% of its players have a total compensation of less than $30,000, which is down from 73% in 2019. "NWSL player salaries and total compensation have increased every year of the league's existence, including during the pandemic." "The continued raising of standards of the NWSL is a priority and that includes elevating the player experience in all aspects, including continuing to increase compensation," an NWSL spokesperson told CNBC Make It. By comparison, the average player in Major League Soccer earns $398,725 for the 2021 season. Currently, the minimum player salary for the 2021 NWSL season is $22,000 and the maximum player salary is $52,500, a 10% and 5% increase, respectively, from the 2020 season.