Avg Salary for Summer Swimming Head Coach Position?

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Anonymous wrote:Holy cow. Our swim team is staffed by college students coaching the HSers, HSers coaching the little guys, and parent volunteers managing it all. Coaches get minimum wage or community service hours.

The best way to run it on a budget is to have a "manager" coach who is/are a parent volunteer(s) that do everything except spell out the workouts. Comms, entries, everything.

Then have a "coach" or coaches for the practices and meets. Agree, college student, 17/18yo swimmers, anyone good with kids and somewhat knowledgeable about strokes etc. Lets face it, its not real training, its maybe getting strokes right and having fun. The skilled kids already have a coach and know what to do.

OTOH, if your team has the dough and wants a turnkey solution, throw some bucks at a real coach, club practices are often dialed back that time of year so they're available. But whatever way you go, make sure the duties and expectations are spelled out explicitly. Make sure the club coach is actually up on the admin parts of coaching if they will be doing those things.

That only works if you have a good parent rep. Ours is dominating and controlling and will not let anyone help. We run through coaches because of the reps.

[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.

Seriously. This in not part time work, once you add up all the time spent coaching morning and evening practices (5-6h/day), Saturday meets, not to mention all the planning for practices, communicating with assistant coaches, and admin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Seriously. This in not part time work, once you add up all the time spent coaching morning and evening practices (5-6h/day), Saturday meets, not to mention all the planning for practices, communicating with assistant coaches, and admin.

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Agreed. It is not part time. They attend team lunches, team dinner, team social events, putting together the line up. They deal with parents who complain about the line up. It is not an easy job for the $10K.

[Anonymous]

A survey was put out and it very much depends on division, NVSL sent it out to the team reps so they would know the numbers.

Overlee's head coach is a year round job, so they are different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our pool pays $10K and can’t get a coach to stay because our parents suck. It’s summer swim. Have fun. Your kid is not going to the Olympics.

Wow. Our DS made half that last summer.

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Good to know. There are many openings for head swim coach in NVSL this year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our pool pays $10K and can’t get a coach to stay because our parents suck. It’s summer swim. Have fun. Your kid is not going to the Olympics.

Wow. Our DS made half that last summer.

10K is a good amount for the time involved and the number of weeks.

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Does any team have two head coaches? How would two co-head coaches -sharing responsibilities and 'covering' for the other when one cannot make a practice - impact the salary offered?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our pool pays $10K and can’t get a coach to stay because our parents suck. It’s summer swim. Have fun. Your kid is not going to the Olympics.

Wow. Our DS made half that last summer.

10K is a good amount for the time involved and the number of weeks.

PP here. I agree with you.

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Seriously?!?!? You realize teachers with masters degrees are not paid this much? Many of these summer coaches are inexperienced and should not be on the same pay scale as more experienced, seasoned coaches.

Be prepared for everyone’s summer swim team registration fees to skyrocket to cover the $10K coach salary lol. Which will then reduce registration numbers, lower registration incomes, reduce parent volunteers, and hurt rosters.

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Our swim team gets some money from the HOA so fees do not go up. We also raise money from concessions and raffles. We pay our coach well, over $10K.

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Some of our coaches have been MCPS teachers and they come back every year.

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I agree that you have to look at fees and the time. It is a part time job - practice will be 3-4 hours a week, meets are 3 hours and most leagues have 2 a week. With other activities you are talking about 25 hours a week for 9 weeks. So they are making about $45 an hour. If that was a full time job it would be over 90K. So that is a good salary. And a great supplement if you are a teacher.

But if you have a head coach (10K), asst coach (5K) and junior coaches, you might be looking at 20K in coaching fees. That would take 133 kids with a $150 registration fee to cover. And that means the team has no money to do anything else or pay for anything without fundraising.

[Anonymous]

Its on the high end but I know a pool in the upper division of MCSL that just offered a coach 17.

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty sure it’s more than 8 weeks. We’re Div 1 and they start tryouts in Early May and the teams are swimming by mid-late May. It’s at least 12 weeks for the head coach actually at the pool. Lots of admin before though hiring all the assistant coaches, etc.

At our pool the team rep does all of that. The coach walks in the first day of practice and starts.