James Li makes $88,000, Fred Harvey, $123,000--How much do coaches really make?

state wrote:

There is a lot of speculation in this forum as to the salaries of athletes (e.g. recent thread on Hasay), but I also wondered how much coaches make.

It should be possible to look up the salary of coaches of many state schools, as that information is generally in the public domain. I'm curious to know (but too lazy to look myself), so I thought I would start the process.

Link to salaries available in this article:

http://www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/archives/2015/02/24/ua-adjunct-walkout-happening-tomorrow-a-demand-for-better-wages-working-conditions-and-no-more-bullshit

For perspective, the athletic director makes $500,000, with basketball and football coaches at $1.9 million and $1.7 million, respectively. The president of university makes $475,000.

*for coaching the university teams.

My guess is that Li is also getting some money for his professional training group.

So I decided to show some initiative and I looked up the salary for Robert Johnson, as there are so many Oregon fans here. Using this link (http://ir.uoregon.edu/salary), and the unclassified report from 31 Oct, I discovered that he makes $150,000 as primary, but then he is listed again as 'overload' at $125,000. Is he really making $275k/year as a track coach, or does he have more administrative duties that I am not aware of?

Just an educated guess as different schools handle it differently: My bet is that the $150,000 is his base and the $125,000 includes his shoe contract, personal appearance fee and maybe a "media" payment. I've even seen some schools roll camp revenue in here if they are guaranteeing a certain minimum. It's a smaller version of how the football and basketball coaches make so much.

Wow, I really expected more interest in this. I should have known, when all of you LRCers are making 250K+/year, you couldn't be bothered by this pittance.

Anyway, I'm more curious as to know the cross country payout, but in my most recent searches, only the director of the track & field programmes are listed. Fritzie seems right about the base+comps model. And yeah, I'm sure Li gets more from his professional gig. Which leads to another question: How much do professional coaches make? I would almost speculate less than at a larger uni.

I decided to look up a small school, and chose Eastern Illinois randomly (http://www.ibhe.org/pa96266/search.aspx). Akers makes $84,426 in base, plus an additional $5,302 in compensation. Not bad for Chucktown.

Oregon Coaches get a very generous payment from Nike as well.

I don't know if that is part of the $125k or not.

As for Arizona, I would assume them and Oregon State and Utah are at the bottom of the Pac 12 in terms of Track salaries.

Would be interesting to know UW, UCLA and USC?

Mario Sategna at UT makes $225,000

http://salaries.texastribune.org/university-of-texas-at-austin/phillip-mario-sategna/5612/

paying coaches in non revenue sports $200k is insanity. the sports bubble has to end.

The AD at Penn State gets around $900,000 per year. what possible return on investment to the state can she provide vs having, say, 9 professors?

Seriously, you think professors at a major public university like PSU are only getting $100,000? lol

Duck Down wrote:

Seriously, you think professors at a major public university like PSU are only getting $100,000? lol

yes, I do

maybe not tenured professors in stem subjects, but take a look at this list - it is full of associate professors making $75k

although the 'associate athletic director' at east stroudsberg U makes $125k. makes me so angry.

I am waiting for a massive protest against the money U's spend on sports.

Duck Down wrote:

Seriously, you think professors at a major public university like PSU are only getting $100,000? lol

Seriously? lol? You're overcompensating for not knowing the reality of a professors salary (even at a public research university)

to be fair, on that list, most head coaches of non revenue sports make $40k-65k. Which seems appropriate to me.

The $200k+ coaching salaries I do not understand at all - unless they are in mens basketball or football - then there is a business side to it, unfortunately.

agip wrote:

paying coaches in non revenue sports $200k is insanity. the sports bubble has to end.

The AD at Penn State gets around $900,000 per year. what possible return on investment to the state can she provide vs having, say, 9 professors?

One key to keeping the average person pacified & distracted is to provide entertainment. Sports are one of the key entertainers & distractors. It might be hard to quantify, but it is hugely important to people in power to stay in power, and $900,000/yr, especially when you're spending other people's money, is a small price to pay.

As for your first comment about the sports bubble. It is merely a result of other, much bigger bubbles. It will only pop when the others pop.

Greg Metcalf made 136k in 2012

http://volleyblogseattle.blogspot.com/2013/05/pac-12-statewide-coach-salaries-reveal.html

I was really only curious as to the salaries of cross (and track) coaches, but I must address the gross incompetencies in regards to professorship pay.

At the R1 I attend, in a given department, salary ranges from $50,000 to $125,000 for a regents' professor (there is one who does make 195k, but he is also the dean of the graduate college). The majority in the department make 70-77k/year, much better than many other professions, but not nearly what the general public assumes.

I have to agree that 100k+ for a non-revenue sport is absurd, even with all of the administrative duties that come along with it. Though, all of the salaries I've examined have had some degree of recent success (conference champions to national contenders).

In my opinion, the AD gig is the best racket, as there are relatively few performance pressures.

Someone tell me a large state school with a track program. U of Illinois?

state wrote:

Someone tell me a large state school with a track program. U of Illinois?

Ron Garner makes $107,625.00 according to

Scott Jones makes $52,500

agip wrote:

yes, I do

maybe not tenured professors in stem subjects, but take a look at this list - it is full of associate professors making $75k

http://lancasteronline.com/news/list-of-salaries-at-pennsylvania-s-state-owned-universities/article_86dea8d2-9930-5ae3-8440-d7d4b3c484b6.html

although the 'associate athletic director' at east stroudsberg U makes $125k. makes me so angry.

I am waiting for a massive protest against the money U's spend on sports.

Don't athletic salaries and funding come from private donations? Not from the school's general fund?

Lazlo wrote:

Oregon Coaches get a very generous payment from Nike as well.

I don't know if that is part of the $125k or not.

As for Arizona, I would assume them and Oregon State and Utah are at the bottom of the Pac 12 in terms of Track salaries.

Would be interesting to know UW, UCLA and USC?

Oregon.

University of Washington

UCLA

So for you doubters, check the link from the poster above for Metcalf where you can find U. of Washington's entire payroll...and my comment was "professors", not "associate professors" or others. Further, my comment was major public universities, of which, I'm sorry, East Stroudsburg State does not qualify. But Washington does so have a look.

Duck Down wrote:

So for you doubters, check the link from the poster above for Metcalf where you can find U. of Washington's entire payroll...and my comment was "professors", not "associate professors" or others. Further, my comment was major public universities, of which, I'm sorry, East Stroudsburg State does not qualify. But Washington does so have a look.

Does the freaking university of Illinois Champaign Urbana count?

Paul Duncum, dep't chair and fully tenured at the U of Illinois Champ Urbana, paid $88k.

Paul Angus Duncum

Prof | Fine & Applied Arts

$88,266.00

on a 100.0% appointment

I couldn't find anyone in the art department paid more than that. I suspect that goes for much of the arts faculty at many big state universities.