Coaches and Scouts
What the pay figures show
- Two answers for coaches and scouts. Best paid: New Jersey, at $76,700. Tax does not change that. Best off: Louisiana, at $56,278 once local prices count. Tax was not what separated them. Rent was.
- New Jersey's $76,700 median for coaches and scouts survives the tax adjustment intact, so state income tax is not a differentiator in this occupation's geography. It does not survive price deflation: Louisiana takes the top position at $56,278. Housing is where regional price variation concentrates, which is why the reordering appears at this step and not the previous one.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$47,320
People doing it
248,950
Highest paid
$76,700
NJ
Best off, really
$56,278
LA, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$28,790
Highest tenth
$98,860
Lowest, really
$32,432
TX
States with data
49
National average
$60,160
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
88.34%
LA, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Pay for this job roughly doubles depending on the state. That is a lot. Some of it is prices, because dear places pay more to make up for costing more. Most of it is not. In real money the range is still $32,432 to $56,278.
- Roughly 248,950 people hold this job nationally, earning $47,320 in the middle. A solid, ordinary-sized job.
- This job is not published everywhere — 49 jurisdictions have a figure, with $47,320 in the middle. Where one is missing, it was never released. New Jersey tops the ones that are.
- Interstate variation in coaches and scouts pay approaches twofold nominally. The standard explanation — that high-wage states are merely high-cost states — is only partly supported here: after tax and price adjustment the range remains $32,432 to $56,278, so the majority of the gap represents a real difference in what the work buys.
- 248,950 are employed nationally in coaches and scouts, placing it well inside the reported range without approaching the highest-headcount occupations.
- 49 jurisdictions carry a published median for coaches and scouts. ⚠️ Suppression is not random: it correlates with small state-level samples, so the reported set skews toward larger employers of this occupation.
Pay band: Coaches and Scouts
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $28,790 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,320 |
| Top tenth earn over | $98,860 |
| This salary | $47,320 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in Coaches and Scouts
The national median for this job
$47,320around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $28,790 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $47,320 |
| Top tenth | $98,860 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Coaches and Scouts, state by state
The national median for this job
49states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Kentucky · $35,570 |
|---|---|
| Highest | New Jersey · $76,700 |
| Spread | $41,130 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $36,510 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $37,571 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| LA | $60,960 | $49,719 | $56,278 |
| NJ | $76,700 | $60,093 | $55,190 |
| VT | $59,990 | $48,533 | $50,223 |
| WV | $52,050 | $42,472 | $47,310 |
| DC | $65,360 | $51,895 | $46,835 |
| WY | $49,420 | $41,889 | $46,109 |
| IA | $49,350 | $40,569 | $45,703 |
| NM | $49,980 | $41,156 | $45,533 |
| NV | $51,020 | $43,175 | $44,519 |
| NY | $59,920 | $47,687 | $44,308 |
| MT | $48,020 | $39,264 | $43,509 |
| AZ | $53,130 | $43,944 | $43,464 |
| NE | $47,810 | $39,124 | $43,290 |
| RI | $53,630 | $43,681 | $43,072 |
| OH | $46,530 | $39,004 | $42,482 |
| CT | $54,790 | $43,940 | $42,377 |
| ID | $46,600 | $38,007 | $41,571 |
| NH | $51,490 | $43,552 | $41,342 |
| PA | $48,730 | $39,839 | $40,860 |
| HI | $55,860 | $44,261 | $40,753 |
| MA | $55,130 | $44,040 | $40,689 |
| MI | $47,050 | $38,236 | $40,597 |
| GA | $48,210 | $39,110 | $40,445 |
| IL | $49,120 | $39,361 | $39,817 |
| IN | $44,480 | $36,637 | $39,743 |
| MN | $48,050 | $39,036 | $39,664 |
| WI | $44,800 | $36,822 | $39,552 |
| MD | $50,590 | $40,790 | $39,234 |
| UT | $45,680 | $36,851 | $38,790 |
| SC | $42,950 | $36,118 | $38,763 |
| MO | $42,790 | $35,488 | $38,674 |
| NC | $43,840 | $36,165 | $38,417 |
| KS | $42,900 | $34,545 | $38,398 |
| OK | $41,160 | $33,900 | $38,398 |
| CO | $47,110 | $38,668 | $38,141 |
| WA | $48,030 | $40,772 | $37,557 |
| AR | $38,930 | $32,478 | $37,544 |
| VA | $46,290 | $37,473 | $37,194 |
| DE | $45,200 | $36,556 | $36,832 |
| ME | $43,640 | $35,619 | $36,684 |
| ND | $37,100 | $31,990 | $36,117 |
| OR | $48,960 | $37,786 | $36,082 |
| SD | $36,360 | $31,395 | $35,638 |
| TN | $37,780 | $32,536 | $35,169 |
| CA | $47,660 | $39,423 | $35,017 |
| AK | $41,170 | $35,260 | $34,666 |
| KY | $35,570 | $29,633 | $32,755 |
| FL | $39,370 | $33,814 | $32,685 |
| TX | $36,510 | $31,516 | $32,432 |
Sources and assumptions
- Treat the numbers for coaches and scouts as a midpoint, not a promise. The national middle is $47,320, which means half of everyone doing this work earns less than that. Where you land depends on how long you have done it, who you do it for, and which city you do it in.
- Take-home figures for coaches and scouts assume one person filing alone, with no dependants and nothing going into a pension before tax. Any of those lowers the tax and raises what you keep, so treat these as the plain case rather than your case. Local city income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those matter. In New Jersey, the best state after tax, the figure works out at $60,093.
- Levelling out prices for coaches and scouts is done with one number per state, which is a simplification. Living costs inside a state vary a lot between its cities and its countryside. The comparison shows which way the ranking moves, not an exact figure for any address — Texas sits at the bottom on $32,432.
- These are distribution medians for coaches and scouts, with a national value of $47,320. They describe a midpoint rather than an expected offer, and the within-occupation spread — visible in the tenth and ninetieth percentile figures — is wide enough that a state-level median is a weak predictor for any individual worker.
- Take-home calculations for coaches and scouts assume a single filer with no dependants, the standard deduction, and no pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figures function as a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape; the highest such figure is $60,093, in New Jersey. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland and parts of a few other states.
- The price deflation applied to coaches and scouts uses state-level parities. Within-state dispersion in price level, concentrated in housing, is large enough that a state figure describes no particular locality well; the bottom of this occupation's real range is Texas at $32,432. The comparison establishes the direction and rough magnitude of the reordering rather than an address-level result — Texas anchors the bottom at $32,432 — and the two source series are dated independently.