Emily Clark Leads Pwhl Salaries at $126,090 Disclosure
PWHL salaries are public for the first time, and Emily Clark sits at the top of the league list at $126,090. The Professional Women’s Hockey League Players’ Association posted the 2025-26 season salaries on its website, giving fans and media a first look at official pay across the league.
Last year, those numbers were available only to players, agents and teams through the Players’ Association. Now the disclosure shows a range that stretches from Britta Curl-Salemme’s $51,000 to Clark’s $126,090, with several of the league’s most recognizable names clustered near the top.
Emily Clark’s Ottawa season
Clark’s salary sits alongside a season in which the Ottawa Charge forward scored three goals and nine points in the 2024-25 regular season. She did not record a point in eight postseason games, even as Ottawa reached its first-ever Walter Cup Final and fell to the Montreal Victoire in four games.
The 2024-25 finish added context to the league’s highest salary figure. Clark signed a two-year contract extension last summer, and Ottawa’s run to the final placed her among the players most closely watched once the salary list became public.
Top of the PWHL pay scale
The rest of the list shows how tight the top end of the market was. Sarah Fillier made $125,000, Brianne Jenner $122,003, Abby Roque $116,699 and Marie-Philip Poulin $110,216, which put Poulin sixth among league earners.
Renata Fast and Hilary Knight each made $106,090, while Gabbie Hughes and Megan Keller each made $105,000. Daryl Watts made $59,000 after signing a two-year contract with the Toronto Scepters in the 2024 offseason, and Britta Curl-Salemme finished at $51,000 before her two-year contract extension starts next season.
What the public can see now
The release puts hard numbers on a league that had kept compensation inside the room. It also gives players, agents and fans the same reference point for the first time, instead of leaving public discussion to guesses or partial reporting.
That matters most for comparisons inside the league. Minnesota, which won a second straight Walter Cup last year, also set a league record with 91 goals in a single season, and the salary sheet now sits beside those on-ice numbers as another measure of where the league’s top names stand.
