What Is Li Yueru’s Net Worth and Salary in 2025?

Li Yueru is one of the very few international basketball players who have jolted the W with her remarkable stint in the Sparks last season, causing a stir in the professional league as every team, including the Dallas Wings and Las Vegas Aces, wants to include her in their respective rosters. Thanks to her size, she makes an appealing choice to add more front-court depth. Now with the Seattle Storm, let us understand the Chinese native’s net worth as we break down her contract details and understand the salary structure of the athlete.

What is Li Yueru’s net worth?

Information regarding Li Yueru’s new worth is not yet disclosed publicly. However, she has drawn WNBA salaries from different contracts. Her income also largely comes from the Chinese basketball leagues and her stints in Turkey’s women’s basketball clubs, including Besiktas, Bodrum Basketbol, and Galatasaray. Though her other professional salaries have not been disclosed, they contribute significantly to her overall net worth.

Moreover, she has even generated other sources of income over the years, through several brand endorsements, partnerships, social media collaborations, as well as bonuses and incentives for participation in the WNBA. All these channels of income contribute to her whopping net worth.

What is Li Yueru’s contract breakdown?

According to Spotrac, Yueru signed a one-year contract with the Seattle Storm. The deal was worth $66,079 with a cap hit of the same amount. Prior to joining the Storm, the Chinese athlete was under a three-year rookie deal with the Chicago Sky from 2022 to 2025. The contract was worth a whopping $186,920 with an average salary of $62,307. Further, she also signed a one-year deal worth $64,767 with the Sparks.

Here is a tabular data breakdown of Li Yueru’s contract details from 2022 to 2025:

What is Li Yueru’s salary?

Li Yueru’s WNBA salary consists of her signed contracts with the Chicago Sky and Seattle Storm. The six-feet-seven player signed a lucrative $186,920 contract with the Sky with a projected salary worth $62,307, but earned a base amount of $60,471 in 2022.  While details of her 2024 unprotected contract under the Los Angeles Sparks remain undisclosed, Yueru earned a base salary worth $64,767 during her one-year stint with the team.

This makes her a total cash cumulative of $125,238 for two seasons with the league. However, she is expected to earn an annual base income worth $66,079 if she completes a duration of one year under the Storm, thereby increasing her total cash to $191,317 by 2026. But if her trade deal request is accepted by the WNBA, the player will earn according to the amount of time spent on the Seattle Storm’s roster. And while she also plays for the Women’s Chinese Basketball Association, her professional salary from the association remains undisclosed.

Li Yueru’s career earnings

Besides her on-court earnings, Yueru has accumulated undisclosed wealth from multiple channels of income, including brand partnerships and endorsement deals with brands, including a Chinese sportswear company named Peak Sports. She has also collaborated with multiple sports brands on social media and actively participates in representing her native country at international events, including the Asian Games and the Olympics. Not to forget, her overseas earnings with various leagues and clubs over the years have also significantly contributed to her overall net worth.

Here is the table summarizing her career earnings and income sources:

A look at Li Yueru’s college and professional career

Post her WNBA draft, she continued playing with a local Chinese team and failed to join the Dream’s roster. As a result, her rights were traded to the Los Angeles Sparks, but within a month of joining the Sparks’ roster, Yueru was traded again. But to the Chicago Sky, this time under a three-year contract.

By the time she received playing rights for the league by the Chinese association, it was too late, and Yueru had to abandon the Sky to make an international appearance in the 2022 FIBA women’s world cup that was being held in Australia at the time and was sidelined during the 2023 season due to injuries.

While Li spent a major portion of her basketball career being associated with international events and playing clubs, including Turkish teams and the Chinese league, she lost out on a lot of seasons in the W and failed to establish herself as one of the strongest women players in the American basketball industry.

Moreover, her rights were further traded to the Sparks last year, where she joined as an undrafted free agent and showcased her talents, maturity, and strengths in the W. And later, Seattle Storm acquired the reserve rights to Li in a three-team trade and subsequently signed her to a contract. And the rest is history.

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