Coaches Coach Wages

[#BGymnast]

Hi coaches,

I am interested in whether you can make a living off coaching gymnastics?
I'm not asking how much you get paid, just generally wanting to know if you can live a comfortable life off coaching? Would you be able to pay or your family to live comfortably as a full time coach, or do you need to have a main job, and gymnastics just as your side hustle? I would guess that really good coaches who are the personal coaches of future/already olympians would make a lot, but as a regular coach is it a well enough paying job?

Does anyone think it would be worth starting your own gym, or have you done it already? Is it worth the costs, or do you go bankrupt quickly?

I'm very sorry if anyone finds this post rude, I am not trying to ask how much you get paid, just a short yes or no answer as to whether it could possibly be a full time career is fine.

Thankyou

 

[Pineapple_Lump]

There are circumstances and/or places where coaches do earn significantly more than a living wage.

 

[Coach Kate]

I coached in a high cost of living area full time from the time I graduated college until the month before our first child was born. I was able to support myself on a pretty modest way -either studio apartment or a shared rental house with friends, yoga studio membership, paying off student loans, contortion classes, money for going out, etc, until my husband and I got married. He certainly made more than I did.

Once I got pregnant, we knew I would be giving up my job. Childcare costs are wild and coaching was never meant to be forever for me. We had always dreamed of me staying home to raise and eventually homeschool our children.

Maybe one day when I'm not nursing a baby/toddler anymore I'll get more serious about looking into judging but our kids are only 17 months apart and I've been pregnant and/or nursing for almost four years now between the two of them. I know people do coach with little kids but it's not what we want for our own family. Even once we got married, the later nights started to feel like something. I wanted out of.

The owners of the gym I was at were one mom with kids and one single lady. The former ran the daytime preschool program and the later did evening. It worked well for them as a partnership. They've done a great job with their gym and it's been over ten years now for them. Those kids are in college now.

You won't become a millionaire, no, but you can probably have a decent life depending where you are. But for me it was the hours more than anything else that were a deterrent as I moved through life's stages. Nights are almost a given and usually there are some weekends involved - whether that's Saturday morning classes or practices, or meets. It is a lifestyle that may work for you for a season and stop bringing joy later on. That was my experience.

 

[Gymgirl84]

In my experience, most of the coaches don't, there are some coaches do, but in my country (europe) there are not that many.