Every SEC coach’s current salary for 2025 college football season
By Jacob Moss
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When it comes to the SEC, the phrase “it just means more” is used very frequently to describe the impact the sport of college football has on the region, and this impact is illustrated perfectly by the salaries the coaches around the conference rake in from year to year.
Coaching in college football’s best conference is a very lucrative profession, and thanks to USA Today, we now know just how much each head coach from across the SEC will be making in 2025.
Just like every profession, though, pay for head coaches typically scales with performance, which is why the guys who have won more are compensated more than coaches who are just starting out at their respective programs.
With that said, here is what each SEC head coach is slated to earn in 2025, ranked from highest to lowest:
- Kirby Smart, Georgia – $13,282,580
- Steve Sarkisian, Texas – $10,800,000
- Kalen DeBoer, Alabama – $10,250,000
- Brian Kelly, LSU – $10,170,000
- Lane Kiffin, Ole Miss – $9,000,000
- Eli Drinkwitz, Missouri – $9,000,000
- Josh Heupel, Tennessee – $9,000,000
- Mark Stoops, Kentucky – $9,000,000
- Shane Beamer, South Carolina – $8,150,000
- Brent Venables, Oklahoma – $7,552,750
- Billy Napier, Florida – $7,470,000
- Mike Elko, Texas A&M – $7,000,000
- Sam Pittman, Arkansas (Fired) – $6,814,600
- Hugh Freeze, Auburn – $6,734,500
- Jeff Lebby, Mississippi State – $4,350,000
- Clark Lea, Vanderbilt – $3,711,137
