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U.S. Soccer Releases Financial Data Disputing USWNT's Claim Of Wage Discrimination

The U.S. Soccer Federation this week disclosed financial data that "disputes claims the women's national team is compensated unfairly in comparison with the men, and says its data was misinterpreted in the federal complaint" filed by the five female players who charged USSF with wage discrimination, according to Melissa Isaacson of ESPNW. While the women in the filing said that they have earned nearly 25% less than their male counterparts this year, the figures supplied by the USSF "show that for the 25 top-earning U.S. national team players over the past four years, 14 of whom are women, the average compensation is $695,269 for the women over that span, compared with $710,775 for the men," a difference of 2.2%. USSF figures show that 14 of the 24 women's players in '15 "earned more than $300,000 in salary plus benefits, and no one earned less than $249,000. The top male player "earned just more than $178,000 in salary" in '15. USSF CFO Eric Gleason said that the numbers also show that "for the past eight years, there has never been a year in which the player-compensation-team-revenue ratio was greater for the men than for the women." The USSF said that the discrepancies between the genders "are not due to discrimination but rather in large part to the different pay structures for the men and women negotiated" in their respective CBAs. The women's complaint cited the USSF's '15 financial report, and the players' attorney, Jeffrey Kessler, has "contended that the women's team generated" $16M in revenue, "whereas the men's team lost" $2M. The USSF charges that it is "unfair to use examples" from '15, the year the U.S. won the Women's World Cup, and that projections for the future "must take into consideration non-Olympic and non-World Cup years" (ESPNW.com, 4/20).

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