Coaches and Scouts Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($27,490) to the 90th ($93,980). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.

Employment and concentration

May 2024 employment stood at 250,940, or 0.16% of the U.S. total. California leads the state table with 31,850 jobs; the top three states sum to 26.0% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Ohio posts a location quotient of 1.96, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $93,980, which is 3.4 times the $27,490 at the 10th, a difference of $66,490 annually. Because the mean wage ($58,910) sits above the median ($45,920), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts California first at 31,850 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Wyoming would lead at $60,640. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Coaches and Scouts stands number 138 by employment and number 625 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations, the group median wage is $66,220 across 36 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 31% less than its group median, and it supplies 12.6% of the group's 1,989,300 jobs. In 27 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $45,920, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 10,670 jobs, 4.3% of the national total. The first table ranks metros by employment; the second ranks them by mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs in the occupation, because a three-person metro can top a pay table by accident.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $32,350 a year, against $116,680 in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC. A gap that size between two metro labor markets is why the same occupation title can fund two very different budgets in two different cities.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

As a household number, $45,920 a year is $3,827 a month gross, $1,766 every two weeks, $883 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($33,960) to the 75th ($61,930) is worth $27,970 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $3,827 monthly figure through the paycheck calculator applies your state's taxes, the salary calculator compares two offers in any unit, and the raise vs inflation calculator tells you whether a nominal raise is a real one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $50,512 would sit between the median ($45,920) and the 75th percentile ($61,930), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $33,960, is $11,960 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film, Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys, Media and Communication Workers, All Other, Special Effects Artists and Animators, Broadcast Technicians, Fashion Designers. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.