There is a lot to unpack there, but is it 4 or 5? An employer should probably know how many employees they have, especially when the number is that small.
I doubt they are all full time "employees". Social media could just be a solo marketer or agency, and they do his social (and others). Same thing with a chef. And so on.
Top athletes do a great job at mentally preparing themselves to perform at a top level. In a way, they’re spoiled little kids, but it’s necessary because they spend their lives preparing for high level comp. The less stress, the better athletes are off to recover and train at the top elite level.
People who performed at just the high school and college level and did it for the socialization aspect wouldn’t understand it. These athletes have to put their “adult” responsibilities on hold to be great.
Again, it’s hard to explain to people who don’t know what real “athletic pressure” is like. Even if you know somebody who qualified to the marathon Olympic trials, that doesn’t make you an expert.
Give me a break top runners only work like 3 hours per day
I remember him discussing on the podcast that he has in fact created a business regarding his status as an athlete for the financial reasons associated with being a contractor of brooks. not exactly like a doctor, but in that realm.
Brooks is a pretty small team that puts a lot of emphasis and effort into having runners who will represent the brand well at the highest level. With Josh Kerr winning global medals and a world title plus a world record and British records I’d ballpark his salary after bonuses and endorsements around 4-500k. Not to mention appearance fees
Brooks is a pretty small team that puts a lot of emphasis and effort into having runners who will represent the brand well at the highest level. With Josh Kerr winning global medals and a world title plus a world record and British records I’d ballpark his salary after bonuses and endorsements around 4-500k. Not to mention appearance fees
I remember him discussing on the podcast that he has in fact created a business regarding his status as an athlete for the financial reasons associated with being a contractor of brooks. not exactly like a doctor, but in that realm.
Sure, he might have created an LLC or S-corp for himself. But that doesn't mean that everyone that Josh Kerr, Inc. hires for services is an employee. Most likely none of them are.
Don’t think this was spoken about here yet. Kerr says he has 4-5 employees, many of which are full time. I get the chef. But he has an operations lead to book travel and interviews and also a separate person for social media. Says the social media person just tells him to post so not even doing much. Also said if he has to spend a million to make a million (and win gold) it’s worth it. I’m fine with that but there’s no way he needs 4-5 employees of which 3-4 might be full time. Booking travel shouldn’t be full time. Telling you to post on social media shouldn’t be full time. You have to compensate the chef full time if they are cooking every meal but who else? Seems like he’s obsessed with himself and hires people to do things just to make himself feel important
I'm glad someone brought this up! it is so excessive lmfao even how he describes races and tactics like "attack from the outside". he seems completely obsessed and over the top but i guess that's how he got to where he is
Top athletes do a great job at mentally preparing themselves to perform at a top level. In a way, they’re spoiled little kids, but it’s necessary because they spend their lives preparing for high level comp. The less stress, the better athletes are off to recover and train at the top elite level.
People who performed at just the high school and college level and did it for the socialization aspect wouldn’t understand it. These athletes have to put their “adult” responsibilities on hold to be great.
Again, it’s hard to explain to people who don’t know what real “athletic pressure” is like. Even if you know somebody who qualified to the marathon Olympic trials, that doesn’t make you an expert.
Give me a break top runners only work like 3 hours per day
1) Stress is still a factor in recovery - even if you're running 1 hour a day.
2) Assuming you're right on the hrs per day (you're not) that's probably not far off from many white collar jobs sooo. I mean, I only work like 21 hours a week and it sucks enough to make me exhausted.
All I’m thinking is just another Flynn Sports victim. Shouldn’t his agent be doing all of this stuff? Ok, not the personal chef who cut out the Tweenkies and Bugles, but everything else.
Right, there’s no way he’s making Kipchoge money. Probably more like $37,000 a year. I think this dude has a trust fund.
Does Josh Kerr really only make that much? If that's all a guy near the top makes, most "pro runners" gotta be more like semi-pros.
Agree 100%. All running is effectively a side hustle if we're talking about direct pay.
The real money comes from Instagram etc - which is why you have 3 hour marathoners making £5000 a month, and 2:20 marathoners making nothing at holding down a full time job.
A team of 3-5 with coach, agent, massage, physio, dietician (to inform chef) is standard enough. Some of those will be (as others have reasoned) less exclusive/full-time, and more a squad service or via national federation.
If the operations head he mentions is covering a coach and an agent's burden of liaising with federation, race organisers, sponsors, anti-doping and other support, and general scheduling with athlete it may be a larger return than it sounds in that interview.
Chasing changes and refunds from flights and accom. is a lot of stress removed, as is the management of food shopping etc, or redeeming/reimbursing expenses with race organisers, personal sponsors, national fed.
A question is whether the ops person and chef would travelling with him, in which case their fees and full-time status adjust significantly. At majors the national fed. often cover things more.
