Avg Salary for Summer Swimming Head Coach Position?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And we give a really nice end of season gift. Most families donate on average $10-$20 per coach gift. The team reps generally get about $750 each.

I don't think we give our team reps anything. Besides a gift. We really should though because they do so much of the work and deal with so much crap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:we are in top 5 divisions and pay 10K.

The coach has 2 one hour practices M-F. A Saturday swim meet and a Monday swim meet. I think it is fine for a college summer job.

[Anonymous]

It is maybe 20 hours a week for 8 weeks. So $60 per hour.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:we are in top 5 divisions and pay 10K.

10K for 8 weeks? That’s too little.

I am paying my golf coach $200/hour. I take lessons twice a week. He is booked from 11am to 7pm, Tuesday through Sunday.

You are getting ripped off if $200 an hour. Insane.

$200 an hour is an average rate for a good golf instructor. That’s what they charge at Oak Mar Oakton rec center. Maybe you’re too poor to play golf.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. That's a ton of money. I'm curious what the range is for a college student head coach and a professional coach who coaches at one of the area swim clubs.

I imagine a big difference. The club coaches get a lot more because they are older and far more experienced. You get paid more for life experience and in some cases how you are able to handle crazy parents, emergency on decks, or calling a meet due to weather. So a club coach might get 7-10K and a college coach would get 3-7K.

This sounds about right. But, I’d guess the college kid serving as head coach is more like 4500-7,000. This assumes they had been an assistant previously.

They are usually grown adults, not college kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. That's a ton of money. I'm curious what the range is for a college student head coach and a professional coach who coaches at one of the area swim clubs.

I imagine a big difference. The club coaches get a lot more because they are older and far more experienced. You get paid more for life experience and in some cases how you are able to handle crazy parents, emergency on decks, or calling a meet due to weather. So a club coach might get 7-10K and a college coach would get 3-7K.

This sounds about right. But, I’d guess the college kid serving as head coach is more like 4500-7,000. This assumes they had been an assistant previously.

They are usually grown adults, not college kids.

That is not true in the lower divisions. Oftentimes they are in college (swimmers) or very recent grads.

[Anonymous]

Our head coach is averaging 35 or so hours a week for 9 weeks when you factor in practices, A and B meets, time trials, 4 divisional/all star meets, and IM carnival and social events, plus practice planning and lineup construction for A meets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is maybe 20 hours a week for 8 weeks. So $60 per hour.

The job requires well over 20 hours a week. I'd say closer to 40-50. There is a lot of planning and practices can run 6 hours a day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we are in top 5 divisions and pay 10K.

The coach has 2 one hour practices M-F. A Saturday swim meet and a Monday swim meet. I think it is fine for a college summer job.

Maybe some of the discrepancy in pay is explained by whether your pool runs morning AND afternoon practices or just one set of practices. Ours runs both. So it's 8-11 am five mornings; then 4-6:30 pm four days a week with a Wednesday night meet that lasts over 4 hours, a Saturday morning meets, followed by team lunch (so say 4 hours here), a couple of Sunday meets (relay carnivals). Then there is all the communication with parents, doing the line-ups, managing junior coaches schedule etc. So you have 4-5 hours of practice daily, plus all the admin and the weekend meets. Minimum on deck per week will be close to 30 hours. Add all the admin and it's more than reasonable to think of this as a full time job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we are in top 5 divisions and pay 10K.

The coach has 2 one hour practices M-F. A Saturday swim meet and a Monday swim meet. I think it is fine for a college summer job.

Maybe some of the discrepancy in pay is explained by whether your pool runs morning AND afternoon practices or just one set of practices. Ours runs both. So it's 8-11 am five mornings; then 4-6:30 pm four days a week with a Wednesday night meet that lasts over 4 hours, a Saturday morning meets, followed by team lunch (so say 4 hours here), a couple of Sunday meets (relay carnivals). Then there is all the communication with parents, doing the line-ups, managing junior coaches schedule etc. So you have 4-5 hours of practice daily, plus all the admin and the weekend meets. Minimum on deck per week will be close to 30 hours. Add all the admin and it's more than reasonable to think of this as a full time job.

Which league has Wednesday meets? I’m just curious. Also, how do you have evening practices while still accommodating general membership? More than one pool?

Thanks

[Anonymous]

Our MCSL team has B meets on Wednesday evenings. There are only usually about 3 home meets per season, and on those evenings the pool is closed for general use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our MCSL team has B meets on Wednesday evenings. There are only usually about 3 home meets per season, and on those evenings the pool is closed for general use.

Thanks. Similar to NVSL. The PP mentioned early evening practices and I am wondering how they got those in.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our MCSL team has B meets on Wednesday evenings. There are only usually about 3 home meets per season, and on those evenings the pool is closed for general use.

Thanks. Similar to NVSL. The PP mentioned early evening practices and I am wondering how they got those in.

Ah sorry, I was thinking about evening practice and somehow replied about B meets. It’s been a long day!

In normal years we also have weekday evening practice. The swim team uses 4 of the 8 lanes for a couple of hours. The other 4 lanes plus kids’ pools are open for general use. We did not have evening practice last summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our MCSL team has B meets on Wednesday evenings. There are only usually about 3 home meets per season, and on those evenings the pool is closed for general use.

Thanks. Similar to NVSL. The PP mentioned early evening practices and I am wondering how they got those in.

Ah sorry, I was thinking about evening practice and somehow replied about B meets. It’s been a long day!

In normal years we also have weekday evening practice. The swim team uses 4 of the 8 lanes for a couple of hours. The other 4 lanes plus kids’ pools are open for general use. We did not have evening practice last summer.

That’s ok. Thanks. Having 8 lanes helps with space I’m sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we are in top 5 divisions and pay 10K.

The coach has 2 one hour practices M-F. A Saturday swim meet and a Monday swim meet. I think it is fine for a college summer job.

Maybe some of the discrepancy in pay is explained by whether your pool runs morning AND afternoon practices or just one set of practices. Ours runs both. So it's 8-11 am five mornings; then 4-6:30 pm four days a week with a Wednesday night meet that lasts over 4 hours, a Saturday morning meets, followed by team lunch (so say 4 hours here), a couple of Sunday meets (relay carnivals). Then there is all the communication with parents, doing the line-ups, managing junior coaches schedule etc. So you have 4-5 hours of practice daily, plus all the admin and the weekend meets. Minimum on deck per week will be close to 30 hours. Add all the admin and it's more than reasonable to think of this as a full time job.

Which league has Wednesday meets? I’m just curious. Also, how do you have evening practices while still accommodating general membership? More than one pool?

Thanks

We are NVSl and do evening practice as well. We have one pool. Basically we just have three lanes and the rest of the pool is open. That way working families or kid that are in camp can get practice. We only do evening practices three days a week. T, W, and Th. We found in the evenings midweek we usually don't have too much in the way of general membership.