Of all top-tier professional coaching jobs, the most irrelevant may be that of the Major League Baseball manager.
What is a Major League Baseball manager worth, salary-wise? Certainly not $8 million in 2024. If you DNA spliced a hybrid of Connie Mack, Sparky Anderson, and Bobby Cox, I still wouldn’t pay the clone more that three million. So I am a little amazed that the average manager salary is above $4 million, and new Chicago Cubs manager Craig Counsel will get the astonishing eight mill over five years.
I would place the modern MLB manager average at $2 million plus an additional $500,000 stipend to cover in-game fines.