What is the average NBA player salary per season?
Sports hard Data from 2025
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The answer
$11,900,000
Roughly $11.9M.
The average NBA salary is around $11.9 million, the highest of any major team sport in the world — a consequence of small rosters and enormous broadcast revenue split among about 450 players. The median is lower, since supermax contracts pull the mean up hard.
Where this number comes from
| Source | NBA collective bargaining data reported by Spotrac |
|---|---|
| Figure refers to | 2025 |
| Last checked | |
| Unit | dollars |
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