How many o you know what is paid to your coach/coaches for the season ?
Do you pay into a required fund for the team or a monthly pay or how does the team do it?
how much do you think the coach should make for the time & effort of practices -meets - meetings required to run the team?
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I have never really come across too many masters groups that could pay for themselves. I see plenty of groups that have about 20 regular swimmers, each paying $50-$60/month - so, you are looking at a group bringing in $1000-$1200/month total from memberships. Take away pool and other costs, I don't see much left for coach pay. If a master's coach makes over $500/month I would consider them lucky. well obviously such a small squad won't generate a full time job.
Therefore it's better to evaluate if the coach is well reward for his efforts by bringing the salary on an hourly basis. A coach (a pro, meaning one that wants to make a living out of it) that is good at managing his time can find ways to set a full coaching schedule out of a few squads, web coaching, private coaching etc....
Occasionally, a age group swim program can subsidize a master's program...generally if that age group club is pretty large. That I've never seen. There are usually expenses related to AG development (training camps, long distance traveling costs etc...) that need to be subsidize by the master program, rarely the other way around.
On top of that, very often, they take young swimmers with little or no coaching experience to coach masters. Or so is the case here up North in our province.
I have never really come across too many masters groups that could pay for themselves. I see plenty of groups that have about 20 regular swimmers, each paying $50-$60/month - so, you are looking at a group bringing in $1000-$1200/month total from memberships. Take away pool and other costs, I don't see much left for coach pay. If a master's coach makes over $500/month I would consider them lucky. well obviously such a small squad won't generate a full time job.
Therefore it's better to evaluate if the coach is well reward for his efforts by bringing the salary on an hourly basis. A coach (a pro, meaning one that wants to make a living out of it) that is good at managing his time can find ways to set a full coaching schedule out of a few squads, web coaching, private coaching etc....
Occasionally, a age group swim program can subsidize a master's program...generally if that age group club is pretty large. That I've never seen. There are usually expenses related to AG development (training camps, long distance traveling costs etc...) that need to be subsidize by the master program, rarely the other way around.
On top of that, very often, they take young swimmers with little or no coaching experience to coach masters. Or so is the case here up North in our province.
