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The AFLW has taken an enormous step in direction of turning into the highest-paid ladies’s competitors in Australia, selecting a brand new collective bargaining settlement that may virtually double gamers’ wages.
Underneath the brand new pay deal, common participant salaries will enhance by 94 per cent throughout the competitors, bettering from $23,904 to $46,280. The speed will type a part of a four-level system the place people within the prime tier will obtain $71,935, up from $37,115 earlier this 12 months.
With these figures, it’s estimated that greater than 40 of the league’s prime gamers shall be paid greater than $100,000. It is a staggering outcome as solely three years in the past high-profile gamers might anticipate simply $24,600 (in 2019).
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After a interval of uncertainty for the gamers, season seven will begin on the final weekend of August – in the course of the AFL‘s pre-finals bye – with pre-season beginning mid-June.
In rising the competitors, the schedule will embody 10 home and away video games and a breakthrough 4 finals, with a grand last scheduled for the weekend of November 25-27.
Season seven will even see the AFLW come inline with the boys’s competitors in fielding a team from all 18 golf equipment. Essendon, Hawthorn, Port Adelaide and Sydney Swans will all introduce inaugural ladies’s lineups.
With the inclusion of 4 new groups, the full variety of AFLW gamers will enhance from 420 to 540 – cementing the AFLW’s place as Australia’s largest employer of feminine athletes.
The settlement additionally brings the AFLW nearer in wage to the Tremendous Netball, the place netballers earn a mean of $74,000.
Within the Tremendous Netball, the very best paid athletes earn $91,500 whereas the minimal wage is $43,000.
The AFLW’s commerce interval will kick off subsequent week, with the season’s draft to happen on June 29.
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