

The regular-season title earns her a bonus of $54,400, but this list consists only of standard compensation apart from bonuses. Karen Weekly, who has coached Tennessee to the SEC regular-season title, has the seventh-highest compensation deal at $340,000. Only Mississippi State's Samantha Ricketts makes less. Of the 13 coaches, eight make more than $300,000 while 12 make more than $200,000. Totals do not include amounts earned as annual incentive bonuses in other years, the value of standard benefits such as health care or the value of potentially taxable items including, but not limited to, cars or car stipends country club memberships game tickets for the regular season, postseason and other sports. Along with Florida's Tim Walton Arkansas's Courtney Deifel and LSU's Beth Torina, they are the five SEC coaches to make more than $400,000.Ĭompensation information was obtained by the USA TODAY Sports Network from the schools through open-records requests. Patrick Murphy, who coached Alabama to the 2021 SEC championship and the 2012 national title, has the second-highest per-year compensation of $500,000, including a talent fee of $225,000. Of the 13 SEC coaches, Texas A&M Trisha Ford, one of the newest coaches in the league, is the highest-paid in the SEC for the 2023 season at $570,000 annual compensation, including her signing bonus of $50,000.

With the SEC Softball Tournament in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and the league's coaches gathering there, the question begs: Who is the highest-paid coach in the league?
