The Hundred: Pay gap to widen between top men and women in 2025
From 2025, the pay gap between the top male and female players in the top 100 will widen from £75,000 to £135,000.
Top men’s salaries will rise by 60% to £200,000, while top women’s salaries will rise by 30% to £65,000.
The increase is part of an overall 25% increase across all salary ranges.
In band seven, the lowest paid group, men’s earnings will rise from £30,000 to £31,000 in 2024, while women’s earnings will rise from £8,000 to £10,000.
In 2023, the Independent Commission for Cricket Fairness recommended that Centuries achieve equal pay by 2025.
Organizers of the Committee of 100 said the fee increase was “a step forward”.
Tournament director Rob Hillman said: “The prize money we are now offering is four times what it was in the first year of the women’s competition, which speaks to the continued growth of the sport, but clearly this is not the end of our journey ”
The wage rise comes as the ECB sells stakes in all eight teams in the Top 100, with investors due to be in place for the 2025 season.
The Professional Cricketers’ Association said there was no negotiation on new salaries, which would mean “minimal changes” for all but the top players.
PCA interim chief executive Daryl said: “The PCA and current players are extremely concerned about the disproportionate salary ranges at Centurions, with few men’s professional cricketers in England and Wales benefiting and the disparity between the highest paid players of both sexes. It’s expanding,” Mitchell said.
Oval Invincibles captain Sam Billings was among the players to criticize the new wages, stressing that wage increases in the men’s championship were not spread across different contract levels.
“It’s worth noting that one category saw a 60% increase, while most other categories saw less than 5% increase…who came up with this?” Billings said on, external.
England bowler Tymal Mills has played in every hundred for the Southern Brave, PCA statement republished, adding, external: “The players in the lower third division who have essentially finished the game and made the game what it is today are ready to be sold and profited from.
“Yet, four years later, after-tax wages have essentially not improved. A first-world problem I know but worth pointing out.”
