Men and women starting salaries equal from 2025

Minimum starting salaries will beryllium adjacent for men and women successful home cricket from 2025.

The women’s home building is being revamped from adjacent season, pinch 8 first-class counties hosting Tier 1 teams, rising to 9 successful 2026 and 10 successful 2027.

At those counties, nan minimum net for a 'rookie', typically a man aliases woman’s first master deal, will beryllium £20,000. That will emergence to £28,000 astatine 'senior pro' level, successful reality erstwhile a subordinate has made a definite number of first-team appearances.

A three-tiered region building will switch nan existent location exemplary arsenic portion of a scheme from nan England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to summation finance successful women’s home cricket to £19m per annum by 2027.

The Tier 1 counties are Durham, Essex, Hampshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, Surrey and Warwickshire. Yorkshire will subordinate successful 2026 and Glamorgan successful 2027.

Those counties will align pinch nan men successful nan T20 Blast and One-Day Cup from adjacent season.

Overall, nan Tier 1 counties will beryllium required to person a minimum of 15 contracted players. Those counties will beryllium required to put a minimum of £500,000 connected subordinate net costs from 2025, but not transcend £800,000.

The minimum a first-class region tin walk connected full men's salaries is astir £1.5m and nan maximum is astir £3m.

At nan moment, regions person £250,000 to walk connected salaries and nan mean women’s salary is £25,000 per year. Rookie contracts do not beryllium successful nan women’s game.

Last summer, nan Independent Commission for Equity successful Cricket (ICEC) published a study that said discrimination, including sexism, is “widespread” successful English cricket.

It said England women were paid 25% of their antheral counterparts’ fees for white-ball matches and 15% for Tests.

In response, nan ECB equalised men’s and women’s lucifer fees successful August 2023.

In September of past year, nan ECB stopped short connected committing to each of nan ICEC's recommendations connected adjacent pay, which see adjacent mean salaries astatine world level by 2030, adjacent salaries for The Hundred by 2025 and adjacent mean salary and prize money successful different home cricket by 2029.

At nan moment, nan ECB is not capable to group a timeframe for achieving equality successful each pay.

However, it has opened nan process for trading stakes successful nan 8 Hundred teams, and third-party finance seems apt to consequence successful greater salary for each players.