Are you curious about the salaries of head athletic coaches across the Ivy League? If so, it may not surprise you that the coaches of men’s teams make more on average than those of female teams. And while this reality may not be the least surprising, especially after the world found out how much #1 WNBA draft pick Caitlin Clark will be making over her first few seasons outside of her endorsement deals, we’d be remiss if we didn’t call out the eight Ivy League institutions for perpetuating this inequity.

So, what are the average head coaching salaries for men’s and women’s athletic teams at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, UPenn, and Yale? Let’s find out!

Average Ivy League Coaching Salaries Around the Horn

The following is based on 2024 U.S. Department of Education Equity in Athletics data:

Ivy League School	Average Salary for Men’s Team Head Coaches	Average Salary for Women’s Team Head Coaches
Brown University	$196,372	$121,503
Columbia University	$206,172	$149,224
Cornell University	$190,386	$128,452
Dartmouth College	$149,994	$125,546
Harvard University	$174,858	$143,735
Princeton University	$227,286	$181,091
University of Pennsylvania	$208,470	$140,271
Yale University	$182,223	$116,516

A Clarion Call for a Change to Ivy League Coaching Salaries

It’s alarming that the salaries of coaches of men’s teams outpace those of women’s teams at each of the eight Ivy League institutions. It’s especially troubling at Brown and Yale, where the coaches of men’s teams make nearly double their women’s team counterparts.

How can this be? The Today Show’s Hoda Kotb recently called out the hypocrisy between the salaries of NBA and WNBA players. But it’s not just women’s players who are getting shortchanged. It’s the coaches, too. So, to each Ancient Eight institution, we at Ivy Coach issue a clarion call for change. We hope to see very different figures in the coming years, figures that reflect equal status under the law. Given that we’ve conducted this analysis every few years and have seen no progress in pay equity, we understand that this call may fall on deaf ears. But we will continue to raise our voices anyway!