Brittney Griner (31) – $5 Million

The WNBA center Brittney Griner is one of the world’s best female American professional basketball players, and her bank account is symbolic of her talent. She landed a salary of $107K while playing for the Phoenix Mercury and made even more profitable deals with Chinese and Russian teams (making up to $1.5 million with the latter).

Needless to say, Griner has managed to amass an impressive fortune, reported to sit at $5 million. In the United States, she’s a 2014 WNBA champion, an eight-time WNBA All-Star, a two-time WNBA scoring champion, and an eight-time WNBA blocks leader. She also has two Olympic gold medals.