Highest-paid female athletes in 2025 all make $10M+

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Money is pouring into women’s sports, with athletes in basketball, hockey, soccer, softball and volleyball reaping the rewards. 

Highest-Paid Female Athletes 2025....Top 15 All Make $10M+ : 

Coco Gauff, Eileen Gu, Caitlin Clark, Simone Biles

The top 15 earned an estimated $249 million this year, and the cutoff to make the cut jumped from $6.7 million in 2024 to $10.1 million.

Money is pouring into women’s sports, with athletes in basketball, hockey, soccer, softball and volleyball reaping the rewards. But the top tier of the world’s highest-paid female athletes is dominated by tennis, as it has been for decades.

The 15 top-earning female athletes in 2025 include 10 tennis players, up from nine last year, plus a pair of golfers and one each from basketball (Caitlin Clark), gymnastics (Simone Biles) and skiing (Eileen Gu).

Tennis star Coco Gauff leads the way for the third straight year with $31 million, a tick ahead of her rival Aryna Sabalenka ($30 million). Sabalenka is the fourth woman in sports to earn more than $30 million in a given year, after Naomi Osaka, Serena Williams and Gauff.