The hole in pay between the highest males’s and girls’s gamers in The Hundred will widen from £75,000 to £135,000 from 2025.
Prime degree males’s gamers will see their pay enhance by 60% to £200,000, whereas main ladies’s salaries are rising 30% to £65,000.
The will increase are a part of an general 25% rise throughout all wage bands.
In band seven – the bottom incomes class – males can be paid £31,000, up from £30,000 in 2024, whereas ladies will earn £10,000, up from £8,000.
In 2023, the Impartial Fee for Fairness in Cricket advisable equal salaries in The Hundred by 2025.
The Hundred organisers say the will increase are a “step ahead”.
“That we at the moment are providing 4 instances what we had been in a position to supply within the first yr of the ladies’s competitors is telling of the sport’s continued progress, and clearly not the tip of our journey,” stated match director Rob Hillman.
The wage increase comes because the ECB sells stakes in all eight of The Hundred groups, with traders set to be in place for the 2025 season.