The high 5 highest-paid girls’s soccer gamers on the 2023 Women’s World Cup

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Soccer gamers earn a set wage from their membership groups, and should earn extra taking part in for his or her nation’s nationwide groups if they’ve profitable match performances. According to knowledge compiled by Statista, listed below are the highest membership workforce salaries for ladies’s soccer gamers on the 2023 Women’s World Cup:

Sam Kerr, $513,000

Australia striker Sam Kerr, 29, who will miss her workforce’s opening two matches of the Women’s World Cup after struggling a calf damage, earns probably the most of any girls’s soccer participant from her membership workforce Chelsea F.C.

Kerr can be a Nike
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-2.14%
athlete, and graces the duvet of Electronic Arts’s
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+0.21%
flagship soccer recreation FIFA 23, together with the Frenchman Kylian Mbappe. The Australian Financial Review reported that Kerr made $3.3 million from her high endorsements in 2022.

Alex Morgan, $450,000

One of probably the most well-known soccer gamers on this planet, Morgan makes probably the most of any USWNT participant from her membership workforce. The USWNT ahead performs for San Diego Wave F.C. of the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL).

Morgan, 34, helped the U.S. win the final two Women’s World Cups, and she or he’s a pressure off the sphere, too. According to Forbes Estimates, Morgan, who has 10 million Instagram followers, earned roughly $5 million off the sphere with sponsorships together with Nike, Beats, Coca-Cola
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+1.22%
and AT&T
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+0.48%.

Megan Rapinoe, $447,000

USWNT midfielder Megan Rapinoe, 38, performs her membership soccer at OL Reign within the NWSL, the place she earns nearly a half-million {dollars}.

Rapinoe’s earnings off the sphere have been $5 million final yr, partly attributable to her sponsorships with firms like Anheuser-Busch InBev
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+0.51%,
Google
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-2.65%,
Nike and Verizon Communications
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-0.97%.

Julie Ertz, $430,000

The 31-year-old Ertz is the third USWNT participant on the record, and performs her membership soccer season at Angel City F.C. within the NWSL.

Ertz, who’s married to All-Pro NFL tight finish Zach Ertz, has practically 2 million followers throughout her social media accounts, and has sponsorships with Visa
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-0.75%
and the Pepsi-owned
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+1.63%
Frito Lay.

Marta, $400,000

Brazil’s Marta, typically seen as one of many high girls’s footballers who has ever lived, performs her membership video games at Orlando Pride within the NWSL. The ahead is Brazil’s all-time main goalscorer with 115 objectives.

Marta, 37, has practically 3 million followers on Instagram, and has off-field sponsorships with Frito Lay and Panini.

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While these salaries might look like some huge cash in comparison with most individuals’s earnings, it’s nonetheless far off from how a lot the highest males’s gamers earn from their membership groups.

Cristiano Ronaldo is incomes an estimated $213 million this yr from his membership Al Nassr, Kylian Mbappe is getting $110 million from his membership Paris Saint-German, and Karim Benzema is reportedly gathering $214 million on his two-year contract with Saudi Arabia’s ​​Al-Ittihad.

There’s additional cash on the road for Women’s World Cup gamers this yr than ever earlier than. The FIFA 2023 Women’s World Cup has $150 million in prize cash, which is up 300% from the $30 million in complete given out over the last match in 2019. While it is a vital improve, the quantity remains to be a lot decrease than the $440 million in prize cash doled out on the 2022 males’s match in Qatar. 

FIFA stated it’s an “objective” to attain pay parity between the lads’s and ladies’s tournaments by 2027.