How much do college basketball coaches make?

The second-highest paying sport for college coaches is basketball. Top salaries reached as high as $4,000,000, according to a March 2012 Forbes article. The median base salary earned in 2012 by a men’s college basketball head coach, however, was $236,300. read more

This range, still wide, probably represents the salary range for most college basketball coaches. An outdated 2008 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimate of the average yearly salaries for coaches other than those at the elite NCAA I schools was around $40,000. read more

The biggest assistant paychecks in February 2012 belonged to assistant coaches of men’s college football and basketball, earning median base salaries of $100,000 and $85,534 respectively. According to ESPN, the highest paid assistant college coaches earned from $300,000 to just over a million dollars. read more