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Professional Women’s Hockey League player salaries have been publicly disclosed, and Saskatoon’s Emily Clark is sitting at the top of the list.
On Tuesday, the PWHL players’ association launched a “player salary guide” on its website, making the base salaries of the PWHL’s 197 athletes available to the public for the first time. According to the association, the decision to release the salary figures of their membership was “intended to promote transparency regarding player compensation across the league.”
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Clark, who just wrapped her third season with the Ottawa Charge, was the highest-paid player in the league last year, earning $126,090 on a two-year contract extension she signed last summer.
But according to Ian Kennedy, of The Hockey News, Clark’s contract was front-loaded for the 2025-26 season, and she’ll see a decrease of over $43,000 next season to fall out of the top 40 salaries in the league.
Clark, a silver medal winner with Canada’s women’s hockey team at the 2026 Milan Olympics in February, scored nine points in 30 games with the Charge this season, but didn’t find the score sheet in eight playoff games during Ottawa’s run to the Walter Cup Final.
Only 10 athletes across the league were paid six-digit salaries in 2025-26, with Clark joined by Kendall Coyne Schofield, Renata Fast, Sarah Fillier, Gabrielle Hughes, Brianne Jenner, Megan Keller, Hilary Knight, Marie-Philip Poulin and Abby Roque.
Clark’s Ottawa teammate Brooke Hobson had the second-highest salary among Saskatchewan-born players, as the Prince Albert defender earned $72,500.
Hobson recorded four points in 23 games with the Charge last season, and scored one goal in eight playoff games.
Saskatoon’s Sophie Shirley earned $48,000 in her third season with the Boston Fleet, where she put up nine points in 22 regular-season games and added another goal over four playoff games last year.
Montreal Victoire forward Kaitlin Willoughby rounded out the group of Saskatchewan-born players with a $40,000 salary.
Hailing from Prince Albert, Willoughby recorded six points in 29 regular-season games. Last week, she became the first player from the province to capture the Walter Cup as a PWHL champion.
Minimum salaries in the PWHL were set at $37,131.50 last season, according to the players’ association. The salary figures shared by the association only represent base salary, and don’t include bonuses, incentives or other forms of compensation.
There remains a major gap in salaries between the men’s and women’s games with the National Hockey League’s minimum salary set to rise from $775,000 to $850,000 next year.
