What do University coaches earn?

Nurmi wrote:

What do university running coaches typically earn? Head coaches vs assistant coaches?

Do Div 1 coaches earn more than Div 3 coaches?

Do "athletic trainers" earn more?

Head D1 major schools 100,000 to 200,000 (very few are higher)

Head D1 most schools = 50-75

D1 Associate Head Coaches = 50k to 100k

D1 Assistants = 25k to 75 (If they are paid)

Those are some general amounts, in the neighborhood.

Before Bev Kearney was axed she was about to start making 300+ for coaching women.

That's the high end. I think Oregon coach makes 300 plus but I'm not absolute on that.

CAn anyone verify that?

SEC and some Big 12 make a little more. Several SEC head coaches have base salaries in the $200,000 range. Several SEC assistants are at $100,000+. Then you can start adding in their cars or car allowances plus bonus structures and it goes up from there. Some schools have incredible bonus structures, but you better produce to earn them!

The Big 10 doesn't seem to pay very well overall. Wisconsin seems to be a bit of an exception. PAC 12 is similar to Big 10 when you account for cost of living (Oregon is the exception). ACC is all over the place with some places paying well and others not.

There was a list of salaries on a thread here last yr.

I've heard of DI programs that pay assistants much less than 25k.

Was an assistant track coach/head XC coach for a mid-major D1 around 2010. I made $31k, worked 80-100hrs a week and everyone on letsrun wanted to do my job for free.

I decided to get out of coaching and now work 30hrs a week, make 4x the money, and still have a lot of room for upward mobility.

Now I'm glad I went into coaching after college, because it would have always been a "what if?" if I had not coached.

That being said I am 100% glad I left coaching before 30.

john mcdonnell was being paid 4.5 million annually at arkansas. no joke.

I left coaching ~15 years ago, after 20+ years. When I left I was head men's coach of t&f/xc at a (very) major D3 university; I had previously been head for men and women for several years. Before that last stop I had had head and assistant jobs, at D1 and D3 universities.

I never had a year in which I made $30k from coaching. The hours at my last job, as someone mentioned above, varied from 40-50/wk in the summer to 70-100+ during the school year. I also spent 10 hrs/wk on teaching during the school year.

Sorry, should have been clearer: there was no additional pay for the time spent teaching.

First off, don't let people pretend they work 100+ hours a week all the time. Maybe it happens every now and then but not often. I honestly think people on these message boards try to scare people from coaching. I honestly enjoy it, even though it can be difficult to make a decent living. I work a lot of hours during the spring semester maybe 60-70 (we have 3 other coaches on staff who all work less than that). I don't coach XC so my falls are somewhat normal 50 hours a week, though I have to work later in the evening than I'd like to. But I enjoy having a lot of freedom over the summer, which I believe most coaches get even though it's probably much less in DI.

I make a little under 40k as a D3 assistant, you would think DI assistant would make more but often times they don't at mid major universities.

100+ hours was not a joke in the fall.

Average day ( I had the girls and guys workout on differnet days)

5:30am: Get to practice to set up cones

6:00am: Team begins warm up

6:30am: Team starts workout

7:50am: Pick up cones and go to coaches locker room to shower

8:15am: Check Letsrun (all coaches do it)

8:45am-3:30pm: Phone calls to other coaches/recruits/recruits parents, paper work for school and NCAA, lunch, set up hotels, meals, etc for meets/ check letsrun

3:30pm-5:30pm: 2nd practice with mid distance runners, or weights with team (again did weights on different days with guys and girls)

5:30pm-9:00pm: On phone withh recruits

9:30pm: Grab dinner

10:00pm: Free time

Not every day was like this, but 4/5 were in the fall. I was also gone with the team or recruiting every weekend, but one my last season coaching for Track. Thats 2nd week of Jan to 1st weekend in June.

Not exaggerated at all I'm sure

Yeah....sure wrote:

Not exaggerated at all I'm sure

It's not. Thats how I rolled. Now I roll 30 hours a week and never work weekends.