A'ja Wilson to reportedly re-sign with Aces for supermax $1.4 million salary after new CBA takes effect
A'ja Wilson had previously made only $1.03 million from the WNBA in her eight-year career.
The WNBA is about to have a new collective bargaining agreement. A’ja Wilson will be one of the first players to cash in. The Las Vegas Aces star is expected to re-sign with the franchise on a supermax deal with a salary of $1.
4 million, the new high mark of the fresh CBA , according to Callie Fin of the Las Vegas Review-Journal . Under the previous CBA, the supermax salary was only $249,000, which is lower than the league’s new minimum salary. The WNBA and its player union reached a verbal agreement on the new CBA early Wednesday morning , after months of angst about the fate of the 2026 season, weeks of sniping over proposals and counter-proposals and days of marathon bargaining sessions.
The deal is not official yet, as a term sheet must be finalized this week, after which the players and WNBA Board of Governors will vote on its approval. After that, an entire offseason’s worth of activities — including the expansion draft, free agency and the collegiate draft — will be truncated into the the month of April. A'ja Wilson won't be the only WNBA star seeing her salary multiply under the new CBA.
(AP Photo/Steve Marcus) ASSOCIATED PRESS Wilson is a natural choice for the new supermax, with a résumé that gives her a strong argument as the top player in the league. She has led the Aces to WNBA titles in three of the past four seasons, with an unprecedented four MVP awards, two Finals MVP awards and seven All-Star selections to her name. Over the course of her prime, Fin notes Wilison has taken team-friendly deals to aid the Aces front office, such as her two-year extension in 2023 that paid her $200,000 per year.