{"id":1479609,"date":"2022-05-18T13:29:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T17:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1479609"},"modified":"2022-05-18T13:29:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T17:29:49","slug":"u-s-womens-soccer-equal-pay-agreement-includes-mens-team-now-subsidizing-their-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-womens-soccer-equal-pay-agreement-includes-mens-team-now-subsidizing-their-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Women\u2019s Soccer \u2018Equal Pay\u2019 Agreement Includes Men\u2019s Team Now Subsidizing Their Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-womens-soccer-equal-pay-agreement-includes-mens-team-now-subsidizing-their-pay%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1479609&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1349300868.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In what is being called an \u201cequal pay\u201d agreement between the U.S. Soccer Federation and the U.S. men\u2019s and women\u2019s national teams, the men\u2019s team will soon begin subsidizing the women\u2019s team\u2019s bonuses with their own international prize money.<\/p>\n<p>The landmark agreement was reached after years litigation between U.S. Soccer and members of the U.S. Women\u2019s National Team (USWNT), who claimed they were unfairly paid differently than the U.S. Men\u2019s National Team (USMNT). The women made this claim even though each team had their own separate collective bargaining agreement about their pay structure.<\/p>\n<p>To achieve \u201cequal pay,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/18\/sports\/soccer\/us-soccer-equal-pay-deal.html\">according to The New York Times<\/a>, \u201cU.S. Soccer will distribute millions of extra dollars to its best players through a complicated calculus of increased match bonuses, pooled prize money and new revenue-sharing agreements that will give each team a slice of the tens of millions of dollars in commercial revenues that U.S. Soccer receives each year from sponsors, broadcasters and other partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the new agreement, U.S. Soccer will play each player $18,000 for most matches and up to $24,000 for wins at certain major tournaments. Top players may also receive more. U.S. Soccer also said it would give upward of 90% of the money it receives from FIFA for World Cup competitions and split that money between the men\u2019s and women\u2019s players, which could \u201cresult in a shared prize pool of more than $20 million as soon as next year,\u201d the Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>Most of that revenue comes from the men\u2019s team\u2019s World Cup revenue, The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/heres-why-womens-soccer-team-isnt-paid-much-mens-ashe-schow\">reported<\/a>. The women\u2019s soccer team brings in less money because it has fewer viewers than men\u2019s soccer overall. This changes when the women\u2019s team makes it to the World Cup, something the U.S. Men\u2019s team hasn\u2019t done.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2019\/07\/08\/are-us-womens-soccer-players-really-earning-less-than-men\/\">reported<\/a> in 2019 that \u201cOverall, from fiscal 2016 to 2018, the women\u2019s games generated about $900,000 more revenue than the men\u2019s games. In the year following the 2015 World Cup win, women\u2019s games generated $1.9 million more than the men\u2019s games.\u201d The outlet noted, however, that the calculation leaves out fiscal 2015, which included a men\u2019s World Cup cycle. Extending the calculation to include the men\u2019s World Cup cycle and the women\u2019s World Cup, the men\u2019s team brought in $10.8 million more for U.S. Soccer, the federation told the Post.<\/p>\n<p>But the revenue question is more complicated than that, the Post reported. While the men may have brought in more gross revenue, their net revenue was less than the women\u2019s team, due to a number of factors such as salaries, bonuses, and expenses changing in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the new agreement, the women\u2019s team received a higher percentage of revenue than the men\u2019s team, though the revenue is lower. CBS\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/questions-of-equal-pay-brought-to-light-after-womens-world-cup-win\/\">reported<\/a> in 2015 that the men\u2019s team received 9% of the revenue generated by the 2010 World Cup \u2014 which amounted to $348 million. The women\u2019s team received 13% of the 2015 World Cup revenue, but because the women\u2019s team brought in less revenue, they only received $10 million. Now the women\u2019s team will get some of the hundreds of millions of dollars that men\u2019s team brings in World Cup revenue.<\/p>\n<p>The women\u2019s team also received a base salary and benefits, which the men\u2019s team did not.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Soccer President Cindy Parlow Cone told the Times that the new contracts would affect the larger mission of the organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no denying that money that we have to pay our national teams is money that\u2019s not reinvested in the game,\u201d he told the outlet. \u201cAnd people can take that perspective. But the way I look at it is that our job is to try to figure out how all three groups can work together to grow the pie so that everyone is benefiting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what is being called an \u201cequal pay\u201d agreement between the U.S. Soccer Federation and the U.S. men\u2019s and women\u2019s national teams, the men\u2019s team will soon begin subsidizing the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":1483577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}