Anyone have any insight as to how much high school track coaches make in Texas? Particularly in the Houston area? I know there is usually a broad variance depending on the school district but I'm curious as I might be relocating due to work to the Houston area from Washington. I know football coaches get paid quite a bit more out there and I was wondering if maybe track did too. Not that I would think it would be anything comparable to football.
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I'm not a coach or teacher but from what I understand, you will be required to teach also since it's against UIL rules for non-school district employees to coach. Generally, only the head football coach gets out of teaching.
A friend that was an assistant in Austin got like $300/mo extra on top of his standard teacher salary to be an assistant track coach. No idea if being a head coach is a different pay scale. Most coaches will be required to coach a a fall sport....usually assisting with football.
Teacher salaries vary drastically from district to district...low 20's to mid 40's per year with only ladder step increases each year of like 1%. Medical insurance rates are very high for teachers from what I read in the local paper. Unlike a lot of other states, very little value is placed on advanced degrees with a Master or Doctorate only netting you an extra $1K/year or so.
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Here is a link to minimum teacher scales. You could probably find some details for Houston if you looked around on the net.
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=5860
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Cool. Good info especially as I will be going down there to teach. Thats crazy that they don't reward masters degrees that much. In the Seattle School District you get somewhere in the area of a $10,000 raise for achieving a masters. As an assistant coach in the Seattle Schools I made right around $1000 for last years track season so as you can see its definitely not about the money.
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Originally posted by triple50Cool. Good info especially as I will be going down there to teach. Thats crazy that they don't reward masters degrees that much. In the Seattle School District you get somewhere in the area of a $10,000 raise for achieving a masters. As an assistant coach in the Seattle Schools I made right around $1000 for last years track season so as you can see its definitely not about the money.
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edit - I saw the Houston scale:
Track & Field - Head Coach $1,400 - $3,600
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In Fort Bend ISD and Houston ISD, the two largest districts in the area, you will be pretty well paid. HISD starts at 45K for no experience/bachelors, and Ft. Bend starts at 44,500 for the same.
Track stipends can range from $1500 on up.
A masters gets you another 1000+ or so.
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Originally posted by Cooter BrownI'm not a coach or teacher but from what I understand, you will be required to teach also since it's against UIL rules for non-school district employees to coach. Generally, only the head football coach gets out of teaching. ....
When I started my frosh year at Washington State, it was a rule (don't know if it was just the school, or whole conference) that head coaches had to have masters degrees, and that included football.
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I am not a teacher, but I am a female pole vault coach, so I don't ever anticipate moving to an area where I would have trouble finding a school to at least volunteer coach at. I think for pole vault, it's a lot more common to find prep coaches who are not teachers, just because it's so tough to find a knowledgeable coach, most schools will take what they can get. I know a LOT of pole vault coaches nationwide, and it seems like PV coaches who are also teachers are in the minority.
I do think it benefits a track program (any HS sports program) greatly to have the bulk of the staff be teachers. I did gymnastics for my local public HS, and our participation probably quadrupled when the head coach started teaching.
I can't imagine spending all day in the classroom, then spending a few more hours at the track. I love kids, but I find spending lengthy amounts of time with them to be draining. I think I'll stick with website stuff :wink:
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Originally posted by polevaultpowerit's a lot more common to find prep coaches who are not teachers, just because it's so tough to find a knowledgeable coach, most schools will take what they can get.
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Originally posted by Cooter BrownOriginally posted by polevaultpowerit's a lot more common to find prep coaches who are not teachers, just because it's so tough to find a knowledgeable coach, most schools will take what they can get.
On the plus side, the climate in Texas (both weather and coaching rules) seems to have spurred a lot of clubs, which offsets bad HS coaching somewhat by offering year-round good coaching.
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Originally posted by triple50It would seem that by only allowing teachers to coach you would get some pretty inexperienced coaches out there. Do a lot of states do this? Washington doesn't
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