Minimal beginning salaries shall be equal for women and men in home cricket from 2025.
The ladies’s home construction is being revamped from subsequent season, with eight first-class counties internet hosting Tier 1 groups, rising to 9 in 2026 and 10 in 2027.
At these counties, the minimal wage for a ‘rookie’, usually a person or lady’s first skilled deal, shall be £20,000. That can rise to £28,000 at ‘senior professional’ stage, in actuality when a participant has made a sure variety of first-team appearances.
A 3-tiered county construction will exchange the present regional mannequin as a part of a plan from the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to extend funding in girls’s home cricket to £19m every year by 2027.
The Tier 1 counties are Durham, Essex, Hampshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, Surrey and Warwickshire. Yorkshire will take part 2026 and Glamorgan in 2027.
These counties will align with the boys within the T20 Blast and One-Day Cup from subsequent season.
Total, the Tier 1 counties shall be required to have a minimal of 15 contracted gamers. These counties shall be required to take a position a minimal of £500,000 on participant wage prices from 2025, however not exceed £800,000.
