Occupation / job
Coaches and Scouts
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
Coaches and Scouts pays $47,320, effectively level with the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — $2,700 apart, which is inside the noise of a single year’s survey. Treat this as an average-paying occupation and decide it on everything else.
With 248,950 in the occupation, Coaches and Scouts is a big field with a visible internal market. Big fields reward moving: the pay you can negotiate on arrival usually beats what the annual review will give you for staying.
Performing and sport suit people who can separate the quality of the work from its reception, because the two come apart constantly and the money tracks the second one.
How long it takes to become one of the 248,950 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.
Who should not do this
$29,380 separates the bottom quarter of Coaches and Scouts at $35,330 from the top quarter at $64,710. At a 1.8x ratio the midpoint is a weak guide to your own first year — find out which end you would be entering at.
A quarter of Coaches and Scouts earn under $35,330, which is $14,690 short of the $50,020 national midpoint. Assume you start there and check whether the arithmetic still works.
Avoid it if you need income stability in your twenties, or cannot personally fund the years before the work is paid properly.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 248,950 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
From $35,330 to $64,710 at a ratio of 1.8x is wide enough that two people with the same job title have materially different jobs. $47,320 sits in the middle of that and describes neither of them especially well.
Put in money rather than ratios: $35,330 at the 25th percentile, $47,320 at the midpoint, $64,710 at the 75th. $29,380 separates the quarter of Coaches and Scouts at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
The 75th percentile is $64,710. Reaching it from the $47,320 midpoint is $17,390 a year; reaching it from the $35,330 that the bottom quarter of Coaches and Scouts earn is $29,380.
$17,390 separates $47,320 from the $64,710 top quarter, while only $11,990 separates it from $35,330. The range leans upward, which means the middle of Coaches and Scouts has more room above it than a symmetric reading of the median would suggest.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Coaches and Scouts is $22.75 an hour. The quarters sit at $16.98 and $31.11, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Coaches and Scouts for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $47,320 describes them.
The hourly number on this page is $47,320 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Coaches and Scouts, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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