Washington's 2024 salary pool for assistant coaches: $7.2 million
Details on each coach's pay.
Washington will enter the 2024 season with a $7.2 million pool for assistant-coach salaries, according to copies of their contracts provided by a UW spokesperson, with that figure set to increase to more than $7.7 million in 2025.
The $7.2 million figure — it will actually come in a little lower, as the current coaching staff obviously wasn’t employed at UW for the whole year — is a bit less than the roughly $7.5 million the Huskies spent on assistants in 2023, but still would have ranked 12th among public schools last season and third in the Big Ten, per the USA Today database.
Seven of UW’s 10 assistants followed coach Jedd Fisch from Arizona, where the assistant salary pool last season was $4.355 million.
“Head coaches’ salaries get to a level that, what am I missing, with one salary versus another?” Fisch said after taking the job in January. “But assistant-coach salary pool is the key. What (former athletic director) Troy (Dannen) was able to do for us, to be able to have a pool of substantial dollars, is huge, and it allows us to be able to hire anybody we want. There really isn’t anybody in the country that if we wanted to hire them, we couldn’t hire them.”
Figures for 2024 represent each coach’s annual salary rate, but obviously each was hired after the start of the year, so their 2024 pay will wind up some amount less than the numbers listed.
Each assistant signed a two-year deal through the 2025 season (Dec. 31, 2025, technically). Here’s what UW is paying each coach.