Someone asked, a while ago [I think Jayson Moy] about how much assistant hockey coaches were paid in the sense that it seemed a lot of them were leaving to go into private business .... I just ran across an advertisement in our local campus faculty/staff weekly newsletter here at Cal Poly which may shed some light on it. ----------------------------------------------------------- Div I, Asst. Women's basketball coach: (Salary 39,360 fulltime, 12 month apptment,avail immediately) Undergrad degree required. Coaching exp at the Div I level preferred. Demonstrated ability in recruiting, publ speaking, committment to academics and NCAA rules compliance required. Etc, etc. ---------------------------------------------------------- I don't know if this is comparable to hockey coaches, as the analogy is stretching it a bit ..... women's, west coast, different sport, etc. But maybe this is a starting data point. As a reference, this is considerably more than we hire new PhD's [Assistant Professor level] onto the faculty, people already usually finshed grad school and at least one post-Doc appointment and in their early 30s, but then again, all the faculty member has to do it teach and do research :-) Tony Buffa Physics Dept Cal Poly (SLO) RPI '64, Univ of Illinois '66 and '69