Iowa Football Head Coaches' Salaries
Iowa
Big Ten 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 | Kirk Ferentz | $7,000,000 | $7,000,000 | $0 | $0 | $7,000,000 | $0 | $2,500,000 | $200,000 |
2022 | Kirk Ferentz | $7,000,000 | $7,000,000 | $0 | $0 | $7,000,000 | $0 | $2,500,000 | $1,025,000 |
2021 | Kirk Ferentz | $5,000,000 | $5,000,000 | $0 | $0 | $5,000,000 | $100,000 | $2,875,000 | $375,000 |
2020 | Kirk Ferentz | $4,670,750 | $4,900,000 | $0 | $229,250 | $4,670,750 | $393,000 | — | $875,000 |
2019 | Kirk Ferentz | $4,800,000 | $4,800,000 | — | $0 | $0 | $0 | $2,875,000 | $825,000 |
2018 | Kirk Ferentz | $4,700,000 | $4,700,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $2,875,000 | $600,000 |
2017 | Kirk Ferentz | $4,550,000 | $4,550,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $2,875,000 | $600,000 |
2016 | Kirk Ferentz | $4,500,000 | $4,500,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $2,875,000 | $900,000 |
2015 | Kirk Ferentz | $4,075,000 | $4,075,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $2,375,000 | $25,000 |
2014 | Kirk Ferentz | $4,075,000 | $4,075,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,750,000 | — |
2013 | Kirk Ferentz | $3,985,000 | $3,985,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,750,000 | — |
2012 | Kirk Ferentz | $3,835,000 | $3,835,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,750,000 | $0 |
2011 | Kirk Ferentz | $3,785,000 | $3,785,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,750,000 | — |
2010 | Kirk Ferentz | $3,781,000 | $3,775,000 | $6,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,750,000 | $0 |
2009 | Kirk Ferentz | $3,024,500 | $3,020,000 | $4,500 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,000,000 | $0 |
2007 | Kirk Ferentz | $3,030,000 | $3,020,000 | $10,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,000,000 | $0 |
2006 | Kirk Ferentz | $2,840,000 | $2,840,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,000,000 | $0 |
Income Notes
- 2023
School Pay includes $1,000,000 payment that Ferentz will receive only if he remains head coach on Jan. 31, 2024 - 2022
School Pay includes $1,000,000 payment that Ferentz will receive only if he remains head coach on Jan. 31, 2023 - 2021
2021-22 INCOME: School pay includes $650,000 payment that Ferentz will receive only if he remains head coach on Jan. 31, 2022. REDUCTION: School said in June and September 2020 that Ferentz was making donation to athletics department equal to 15% of base salary from July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021. Reduction for entire period -- $393,000 -- was to be based on then-current base salary of $2.62 million, even though that amount was set to increase by $100,000 on Feb. 1, 2021. In summer 2021, school told The (Cedar Rapids) Gazette that Ferentz contributed to the department?s savings goal through a previous commitment of $400,000 to support football letter-winner initiatives. The commitment was established in June 2019 and pledge payments of $100,000 were received in December 2019 and 2020. The school also said Ferentz had contributed nearly $1 million to the athletics department overall, including a $500,000 contribution to football stadium renovation completed in 2019. - 2020
2020-21 INCOME: School pay includes $650,000 payment that Ferentz will receive only if he remains head coach on Jan. 31, 2021. REDUCTION: Ferentz is making donation to athletics department equal to 15% of base salary from July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021. Reduction for entire period is based on current base salary of $2.62 million, even though that amount is set to increase by $100,000 on Feb. 1, 2021. - 2019
School pay includes $650,000 payment that Ferentz will receive only if he remains head coach on Jan. 31, 2020. - 2018
School pay includes $650,000 payment that Ferentz will receive only if he remains head coach on Jan. 31, 2019. - 2017
School pay includes $650,000 payment that Ferentz will receive only if he remains head coach on Jan. 31, 2018. - 2016
School pay includes $650,000 payment that Ferentz will receive only if he remains head coach on Jan. 31, 2017. - 2015
School pay includes $525,000 payment that Ferentz will receive only if he remains head coach on Jan. 31, 2016. - 2014
School Pay includes $525,000 payment that Ferentz will receive only if he is still head coach on Jan. 31, 2015. - 2010
University compensation includes a $100,000, one-time signing bonus from a new contract this year that was to be paid by Dec. 31.
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.