The highest-paid WNBA players on every team this season

Azurá Stevens spent the first five years of her WNBA career split between two different franchises — the Dallas Wings and the Chicago Sky. But as a free agent ahead of the 2023 season, the 6-foot-6 forward headed for Hollywood to join the Los Angeles Sparks.

Stevens signed a two-year, $385,000 contract with the team, making her the highest-paid player in LA. Former MVP Nneka Ogwumike, who has been the face of the franchise in recent years, signed for below market rate to help bring in a stronger team around her.

The Atlanta Dream aren't lacking star power, but their roster is full of young talent, mostly playing on rookie-scale contracts. Forward Cheyenne Parker is the team's highest earner for the 2023 season.

She'll receive $196,100 in base salary this year after signing a three-year, $571,650 contract extension with the franchise this spring.

Napheesa Collier inked a three-year, $552,516 contract with the Minnesota Lynx just ahead of the 2022 season. The two-time WNBA All-Star and 2019 Rookie of the Year has become the face of the historic franchise following the retirement of league legend Sylvia Fowles.

Collier is set to earn $202,154 in 2023 — her first full season since giving birth to her daughter, Mila.

Reigning WNBA MVP A'ja Wilson — who has already won the league's top individual honor twice at just 26 years old — will be the top earner on an Aces squad brimming with big-name talent. She re-signed with Las Vegas in February 2022 for the maximum she could command — $398,422 over two years — $202,155 of which she'll receive for the 2023 campaign.

Shortly after helping the Chicago Sky take down the Las Vegas Aces in 2021 to win their first-ever WNBA Championship — earning Finals MVP honors to boot — Kahleah Copper decided to anchor herself in Chicago. The athletic wing re-signed before the 2022 season on a two-year deal worth $405,000.

This season, with many of the team's former superstars taking their talents to the league's newly formed superteams, Copper is the highest-paid player in the Windy City.

Kelsey Mitchell has spent her entire WNBA career with the Indiana Fever — a team that has notoriously struggled to break through since losing franchise player Tamika Catchings to retirement. But despite the squad's struggles, Mitchell has proven without a doubt that she's among the greatest talents the league has to offer.

As the Fever look to embark on a brighter future, they opted to build around Mitchell by extending a three-year, $618,000 deal to the prolific guard. She'll be the young team's highest-paid player this year with a $206,000 base salary.

Shortly after earning WNBA MVP honors in 2021, 6-foot-6 superstar Jonquel Jones signed a two-year, $416,150 deal with the Connecticut Sun. But after coming up short through several trips to the WNBA Finals, Jones sought out a trade to the New York Liberty ahead of the 2023 season.

She'll be the new-look Liberty's highest-paid player in 2023, commanding $211,150 on the year.

After winning the 2019 WNBA championships, two-time WNBA MVP Elena Delle Donne re-signed with the Washington Mystics to the tune of $899,480 over four years. The league's lone member of the elusive 50-40-90 club will earn $234,350 in 2023 — the final year of her contract — as she hopes to return to peak form following several injury-riddled seasons.

DeWanna Bonner spent the first 10 seasons of her WNBA career with the Phoenix Mercury — and won two championships in Arizona. In 2020, she headed to the Connecticut Sun in a sign-and-trade deal that granted her supermax eligibility.

Now, in the final year of that mammoth contract, Bonner will earn a few hundred dollars less than the highest-paid players as the Sun seek to return to the Finals for the second consecutive season.

Diana Taurasi is a WNBA legend. She's the league's all-time leader in points and three-pointers, has won three WNBA championships and two Finals MVP awards, and has earned 15 All-Star nods as well as five scoring titles.

And even though she enters the 2023 season as the oldest player in the league at 40 years old, she's managed to continue making a substantial impact on her Phoenix Mercury into the twilight of her career. The franchise rewarded her accordingly ahead of the 2023 season, offering the sharpshooter a two-year supermax deal to stay with the team she's played with for her entire 19-year WNBA career.

Arike Ogunbowale is the young leader of an up-and-coming Dallas squad, as evidenced by the Wings locking their star into a three-year supermax deal just three seasons into her WNBA career. But they had plenty of incentive to keep the two-time All-Star in the Lone Star State: she's led the team in scoring every season since her arrival in 2019 and was the entire league's leading scorer in 2020.

Jewell Loyd — a 5-foot-10 guard from Chicago — was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2015 WNBA Draft. Since then, she's been a key contributor for the Seattle Storm and helped them win two WNBA championships alongside fellow superstars Sue Bird and Breanna Stewart.

For the first time in her career, the four-time WNBA All-Star will be tasked with leading the Storm without Bird and Stewart by her side. But the franchise showed faith in Loyd by offering her a two-year supermax deal ahead of last season, making her the highest-paid player on her team for the 2023 campaign.