Goodell's salary makes up 0.27% of NFL revenue. Adam Silver's salary makes up 0.08% of NBA revenue. If Englebert makes $6 million, that's 3% of WNBA revenue (reported, 2024) which makes her wildly overpaid relative to the revenue/profits the organization she leads generates (which, again, is her responsibility, not the players') and that's just one WNBA executive.
Revenue has been on the upswing since even before Caitlin Clark, and yet player salaries (as a percentage relative to revenue generation) have been going down, not up, which kind of blows up the argument that they will start getting paid a higher % as revenue increases, considering we haven't seen that happen yet.
My argument (and that of the players) is that the administrative side of the WNBA is largely overpaid compared to the players, who actually put the butts in seats.