Revealed: WSL and WSL2 players to get minimum salaries from this season

• No WSL2 player will need part-time job now, says COO
  
• Level agreed after consultation with players? union

Minimum salaries are being introduced in the Women?s Super League and WSL2 this season and will stop second-tier players needing part-time jobs on the side, Holly Murdoch, the chief operating officer of WSL Football, has told the Guardian.

WSL2 has moved to fully professional criteria and its minimum ?salary floor? has been agreed in collaboration with the Professional Footballers? Association, Murdoch said. Previously, average salaries were understood to be so low at some clubs that many second-tier players needed additional income from jobs such as teaching or physiotherapy
?I think we?ve come up with a floor that will have a meaningful impact for our players,? Murdoch said. ?We consulted with the PFA, they were a really important stakeholder on this, and this is something that has to remain under review constantly because the game is changing so quickly. We?ll analyse all the data off the back of this transfer window and updated salaries, and then we?ll review all of the policy around it again as the game grows.?
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