West Virginia Football Head Coaches' Salaries
West Virginia
Big 12 Conference
2020 Total Pay figures takes into account reductions due to issues caused by COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 Max Bonus amounts not tallied. 2021 Total Pay does not take into account reductions.
Total Pandemic Reductions shown may actually have been lower due to changes made after publication of 2020 figure. For all notes, see below.
Year | Coach | Total Pay | Scheduled School Pay | Other Pay | Contract Year Pandemic Reduction | Actual School Pay | Total Pandemic Pay Reduction | Max Bonus | Prior Year’s Bonus |
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2023 | Neal Brown | $4,005,000 | $4,005,000 | $0 | $0 | $4,005,000 | $0 | $1,300,000 | $30,000 |
2022 | Neal Brown | $4,005,000 | $4,005,000 | $0 | $0 | $4,005,000 | $0 | $1,300,000 | $80,000 |
2021 | Neal Brown | $2,997,500 | $3,155,000 | $0 | $157,500 | $2,997,500 | $312,500 | $1,000,000 | $50,000 |
2020 | Neal Brown | $2,950,000 | $3,105,000 | $0 | $155,000 | $2,950,000 | $312,500 | — | $20,000 |
2019 | Neal Brown | $3,055,000 | $3,055,000 | — | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,000,000 | — |
2018 | Dana Holgorsen | $3,617,500 | $3,605,000 | $12,500 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,000,000 | $90,000 |
2017 | Dana Holgorsen | $3,505,000 | $3,505,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $750,000 | $185,000 |
2016 | Dana Holgorsen | $2,980,000 | $2,980,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $600,000 | $185,000 |
2015 | Dana Holgorsen | $2,880,000 | $2,880,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $600,000 | $60,000 |
2014 | Dana Holgorsen | $3,080,000 | $3,080,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $600,000 | $35,000 |
2013 | Dana Holgorsen | $2,630,000 | $2,630,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $600,000 | — |
2012 | Dana Holgorsen | $2,380,000 | $2,380,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $600,000 | — |
2011 | Dana Holgorsen | $1,490,000 | $1,490,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $600,000 | — |
2010 | Bill Stewart | $933,000 | $903,000 | $30,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $590,000 | — |
2009 | Bill Stewart | $878,000 | $275,000 | $603,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $565,000 | $0 |
2007 | Rich Rodriguez | $1,803,000 | $1,203,000 | $600,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $385,000 | $0 |
2006 | Rich Rodriguez | $1,100,000 | $250,000 | $850,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $415,000 | $0 |
Income Notes
- 2022
School Pay includes $500,000 one-time retention payment Brown received for remaining school's head coach from Jan. 1, 2021 through March 1, 2022. - 2021
REDUCTION: Total compensation reduced by 10% from July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021. Compensation had been set to be $3.1 million through contract year ending Dec. 31, 2020. It increased to $3.15 million for contract year beginning Jan 1, 2021. - 2020
REDUCTION: Total compensation reduced by 10% from July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021. Compensation had been set to be $3.1 million through contract year ending Dec. 31, 2020, then increase to $3.15 million for the next contract year. - 2019
The school also paid $300,000 to Troy to cover the buyout Brown owed. In addition, West Virginia paid $133,755 to cover the taxes Brown would have owed on that amount. - 2016
School pay includes $75,000 payment that Holgorsen will receive only if he remains head coach on Dec. 8, 2016. - 2015
School pay includes $75,000 payment that Holgorsen will receive only if he remains head coach on Dec. 8. - 2014
School Pay includes a $300,000, one-time retention payment that was due on March 1 and a $75,000 annual retention payment that Holgorsen will receive only if he remains head coach on Dec. 8.
The information below applies to the data obtained for the 2023-2024 contract season: To see the methodology behind this data, click here.
Where the table does not display a number, it means the amount could not be obtained. An asterisk means additional information about the coach's compensation is available by clicking on the number shown.
“School Buyout” figures are the amount a school would owe coach if it fired coach without cause on April 1, 2024. Many of these amounts are expressly subject to coach's duty to make good-faith efforts to find another job, with income from that employment offsetting the amount owed. If mitigation and offset are not addressed in a contract, coach still may have obligation to make efforts in that regard. The amount listed may be owed to coach over an extended period of time, rather than as a lump sum at termination.
Coaches' records are going into 2023-24 season, compiled from information displayed in NCAA statistics database at NCAA Statistics – so they may be impacted by games vacated or forfeited by the NCAA or the schools.
"Record at school" data for Murray State’s Steve Prohm is based on his current tenure at the school.
CREDITS
By Steve Berkowitz, Sean Dougherty, Leo Wotzak and Brad Jennings of USA TODAY; Robert Lattinville of WME, who represents college coaches and athletics directors as well as NCAA member schools.