Sports Funding

1. 4k for me
2. kids pay $75 whether they play one sport or 3

Our HEAD coach makes $1500 a year and he gives that to his assistant so that he'll have one. Can you tell we're a football town? Can you also tell the guy does it b/c he loves the kids and the game? The kids don't have to pay a participation fee in any sport.

We pay $125 activity fee for sports and activities to our school board.

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Originally posted by PAL's Coach:
School board has cut a majority of the funding for all sports. High School Sports Boosters currently raise about half the funds needed to keep the programs running. Very few coaches attend or even contribute to all the fundraising activities run by the boosters. Because of the union contracts many of the seasoned coaches are paid between $8-12K per season.

Two questions. Is this a normal wage for coaching a varsity sport? Do players at your schools pay t play?

1. Yes. That salary range sounds about what our school system pays. Possibly slightly lower than the 8-12k range perhaps. That's on top of their regular pay as a teacher. not a bad gig. Teachers union very powerful in our state.

2. Yes. Our school system started charging a fee per sport whether it was varsity or jv. I think they started charging about the time my son was a sophomore in HS. My son played two varsity sports so I payed that fee twice a year. If you were cut, the fee was refunded.

I have no idea what I get paid but I know it's nowhere near what you posted nor what trojan skipper posted. If I did know how much I got paid for all the time I put in I would probably just curl up in the fetal position and cry.

Of the four high schools I've coached at none of them charged a pay to play fee of any type. The school I was head coach at in KY I did charge the guys for their hat, socks and undershirt to help offset costs but we still took a hit on it because I never charged them the full amount it cost the school nor did I keep a kid who couldn't afford the money (around $20 - 30 per player) from getting the stuff.

I will do everything in my power to keep my guys from paying to play. I hated the fact I had to charge them for their hats, socks and undershirts although I could justify it because they kept those articles. It was still wrong. I will fundraise like crazy to keep my guys from having to pay to play and I hate fundraising with a passion. Fundraising will probably end up being one of the things that will finally push me out of the game when it's time for me to get out.

The thing about the fundraiser is to think outside the box. Virtually all organizations sell stuff to raise money and it's usually garbage that's overpriced and / or junk you really don't want. People buy it because they don't want to feel bad for turning you down but if 7 other organizations hit them first then it becomes easier to turn you down because their tired of being hit up for money. Plus your people hate selling the garbage which leads everyone to be unhappy. Do something creative that allows everyone to have some fun and your people are more willing to do the work plus the people who have been hit up by 7 other organizations aren't being sold junk - they are willing to help out more with money.

I get 3 K for being Asst. Football and Head Baseball. This is about normal around here, some parishes get a little more, some a little less.

Boosters pay for everything and we teams get half of gate money for all sports. School or school board contributes nothing to athletics.

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$8-12K per season

You might want to consider moving back east of the left coast. You must have a lighted baseball field, home and away lockers, chartered bus transportation, new uniforms every year, a bat contract and several paid assistants.
Here baseball boosters pay for everything and coach appreciates the gas card he gets every once in awhile.

If you want thinking out of the box on fundraising...book 20 couples on a cruise and get the travel agent to donate his fees to the baseball boosters. It can be a couple thousand.

High School Varsity 3,450 Head Baseball 2,300 Asst Baseball or JV Head

School district here pays $1600-2000 per sport for Head Coaches Asst. are all volunteer. Two years ago the district stopped funding the sports programs. All funds for sports are donations and fundraisers.
Players are charged by the district $400 for transportation and field maintenance ( some players can get waivers).

Sure glad my son graduated 2 years ago. We only had to pay $75 per sport and help with fundraisers.

In the north bay its my understanding the public schools pay about 2k for the varsity HC. A catholic schools pay 4k another private pays alot more.

I don't know what the salary of my son's coach is? But we do pay an annual transportation fee of $100 (was $125 last year), and an additional $125 for a "spirit pack" that includes two hats, practice jersey,shorts, T-Shirt, and sweatshirt.

Head Baseball Coach $5,600 (Private School)
Asst Baseball Coach $2,000

Public County Schools Activity Fee: $40.00

HS Sports fundraising efforts (for any sport)
can not be delegated to single sport.
Funds typically managed by Athletic Director
with meetings conducted by PTA Mommies.

Should a pro baseball player want to donate
$10,000 / yr and delegate the dollars to improve HS Baseball facilities, be aware the PTA (under guidance of AD) will "vote" all of the delegated baseball dollars to just about every other HS sport including marching band, poms, cheerleaders, chess club (classified as sport) and others. After several years, the pro baseball player visited the HS and queried the AD what was improved on the baseball field. Answer: Rakes and line-marking equipment were purchased.
He never donated his annual dollars again.

A bird in the hand is NOT worth two in the bush

We are a public school.... Head Coach- 3.6K Asst.- 2.4K No fees for athletes. Not sure what our annual budget has been, but the district has been good about that.
Years ago we started holding an annual hitting clinic that drew over 100 youngsters each year. Those monies were used to cover our annual pre-season trip to warmer climates.
A parent took it upon himself years ago to haul his grill from home to supply players with dogs. "Hot Dog Billy" then hustled a donation of a storage shed that became our concession stand. That little operation covers all the "cool" stuff.... fitted hats, sweats etc,

Head Coach $1,500. asst volunteer, he only has an asst JV coach. No fees to play, but we pay for all sweats, practice shirts, hats and Varsity Jackets.
Any money fundraised, 10% has to go to the Booster Club, so if you raise 1K, the sport gets 900 and booster club gets 100. This is all sports/clubs, The booster club is like the Bank of Extra-Curricular Activities, if the team/club needs money we borrow it and then fundraise to pay it back.

We also have the parents who brought a grill and we sell hot dogs/and such at a concession stand, that the booster club actually bought two sheds one for football/s****r area and one for baseball/softball area.

Kids don't pay to play in our town, and haven't heard any talk of it changing.

Don't know what the coaches make.

PAL Coach - I umpire games in the PAL, I know many of the coaches. I would be real surprised if they are being paid what you indicated. From my understanding the stipends are much, much less.

As to fund raising and pay to play; face facts California is broke, they have taken or borrowed all the money they can all the way down to the local level. If sports survive it will be pay-to-play.

The issue of pay-to-play is going to only get worse as public funding of fields and field maintenance, especially in the PAL, has all but stopped.

PAL is just a name I made up - We don't live in the PAL area and I am not a high school baseball coach. I started this thread to get an idea as to how much is a fair wage for a varsity coach - any sport... and how much some schools charge to play a sport. I have a relative who has players in the EBAL in Northern CA and am told they make a "donation" of around $500 per sport. With the "no kid left behind" issue how do they get away with making players families pay?

PAL'S COACH,
Son played in DFAL now DVAL from 2004-2008, the school districts have waivers for players that can't afford the fees.

Don't know how they do it now with the district not funding sport programs, but assume that it is still the same to avoid lawsuits.

I am not sure what the coaches make up here (I believe it is $2K to $4K depending on district), but in our town we now have pay to play. $150 a sport up to 2 sports. If you play 3 the 3rd one is free!! Sports like Hockey and skiing are $500 and sports like track and cheerleading are only $50. If you qualify for free hot lunch then you get a waiver on the user fee.

We save $300 this year with son's blown out elbow keeping him from playing basketball and baseball this season. But that money did go to pay the deductible on the MRI's and cat scans of the arm

Coaches get 2.5-4K depending on title and tenure. There's a one time $50 student activity fee whether for one season or three. The baseball parents are expected to donate $200. I buy a $200 business ad in the program. The players are used for free labor for two preseason age 7-12 clinics that raises a few thousand. The players have fun with the clinics. My son thinks it's funny to sign autographs.