He is currently the head coach of Austin FC ahead of their inaugural season in Major League Soccer in 2021. Itâs certainly difficult to look at anything Berhalter or Klinsmann have done and say their outsized compensation is deserved compared to Ellis. For US Soccer, which is still the subject of an unresolved wage discrimination complaint from women’s national team players, the jarring salary breakdown among coaches represents another series of decisions that have required course-correction. The USMNT, on the other hand, has never done better than the quarterfinals in the World Cup and failed to qualify for the upcoming 2016 Olympics in Rio. Here's how the ⦠Before the WC ends would be odd since you want to see who gets fired/leaves after the tournament. The federation will hire someone for the new women’s general manager position. All rights reserved. After all, from US Soccerâs standpoint, there has been little incentive to pay Ellis more â before she stepped down, she was already believed to be the highest-paid coach of a womenâs team anywhere in the world. He is currently the head coach of the United States men's national soccer team. (The man who hired Berhalter, US Soccerâs first general manager Earnie Stewart, earned $305,778 for his first six months of work in 2018, according to the tax filings. Whereas Berhalter could earn competitive salaries at many clubs around the world, the risk that Ellis would have been lured elsewhere by more money was almost nil. 4) Jay Berhalter (chief operating officer), Andreas Herzog (ex-USMNT assistant coach), 6) Tom King (managing director, administration), 7) Tab Ramos (U-20 USMNT coach, youth technical director), 8) George Chiampas (chief medical officer), 9) Brian Remedi (chief administrative officer), Base salary + additional compensation, 1 April 2017 to 31 March, 2018. Perhaps itâs just a matter of expectations. Does the federation need to do more to address the disparity? But Ellis earned less than Herzog and Klinsmann for years, from at least 2015 until her pay raise last year, and it’s worth considering how the disparity happened in the first place – and why it could happen again. A former U.S. international that earned 44 caps and went to two FIFA World Cups, learn more about new U.S. Men's National Team head coach Gregg Berhalter. Both parties have entered mediation. As if the optics weren’t bad enough, the men’s under-20 coach, Tab Ramos, who works with other youth teams, was also paid more than Ellis at $345,297. Vermes is a former USMNT captain as a player and has fashioned an outstanding career as Sporting KC head coach. The tax filing, which discloses the coachesâ salaries for the 2018 calendar year, showed Berhalter made $313,109 in the one month he was on the job after his 1 December appointment. USA's Julie Ertz: 'We feel it's coming together. She was also paid less than three coaches who didnât even work for a full year and helped the USMNT miss the 2018 World Cup: Jürgen Klinsmann, his assistant Andreas Herzog, and Bruce Arena. Meanwhile, in 12 months of work, Ellis earned $418,645. That is at the heart of the big question for US Soccer: is adhering to market rates around the world a good enough excuse when it comes to paying the successful coach of a womenâs team much less than the coach of a mediocre menâs team? Jill Ellis, the manager of the US women’s national team, has been getting results. He held up favorably. But the financial rewards for her success have been limited, at least compared to her male colleagues who have achieved far less. US Soccer has been taking steps in the right direction. The players are demanding an industry standard revenue split, and ⦠She led the USA to a spectacular Women’s World Cup victory in 2015 – which turned out to be very lucrative for her bosses at the US Soccer Federation – and just recently, the US women qualified with ease for this summer’s tournament in France. Late last year, the federation reviewed Ellis’ salary and decided to give her a six-figure raise that will not be disclosed until next year’s tax filings, US Soccer tells the Guardian. Next Opponent 3/25/2021 1pm on ESPN2 Meantime, itâs unclear how much womenâs coach Jill Ellis made in the same period because she is not listed among the USSFâs top earners. Berhalter previously in , When Stewart was hired as menâs GM in 2018, his starting salary was $700,000, not including bonuses, according to several sources. Last week marked the one-year anniversary of Carlos Cordeiro assuming the US Soccer presidency, and he is yet to deliver any real change. And shouldn’t US Soccer, an organization that exists to promote and grow soccer in the United States, help elevate the status of coaches for women’s teams in the sport? The federation did give her a large raise midway through 2018, bumping her base pay up from around $300,000 to $500,000, sources have told the Guardian, which is why her actual compensation for 2018 is reported as $419,000. Weâre asking real people how they spend their hard-earned money He was scheduled to make nearly $9 million in 2020 and his contract calls for a base salary of $6 million. Your support powers our independent journalism, Available for everyone, funded by readers. Sticking to a rigid set of factors in making decisions, like relying on “market conditions,” has caused US Soccer problems before. When five players on the US women’s national team accused the federation of wage discrimination in 2016, the most powerful ammo in the public relations battle became the indefensible discrepancy in per diems between the men’s and women’s teams: male players were given $75 when traveling abroad while female players only got $60. And negotiations over the men’s team’s expired CBA are ongoing, which offers US Soccer an opportunity to make pay between the men’s and women’s teams equal, something that Cordeiro said he supported during his presidential campaign. The search for a permanent head coach was delayed by the USSF presidential election in February 2018 and the hiring of Earnie Stewart as general manager in June 2018. (She later went on to win another World Cup in 2019.). According to The Washington Post, which cited copies of both agreements, female U.S. soccer players can sign contracts that provide an annual salary ⦠We're excited for 2019' | Suzanne Wrack, How the US prepared for the Women's World Cup by ripping everything up. (Last year, average attendance for US-hosted men’s national team games was the team’s lowest in 12 years.) USWNT members claimed in a recent lawsuit that their maximum salary in a typical year is $99,000 ($4,950 per game) if ⦠Date & Time Guests Tuesday, January 26 2:00 PM ET/1:00 PM CT Inside the 18 Podcast Recording Tuesday, February 16 2:00 PM ET/1:00 PM CT Phil Wheddon, Owner & Director, GK One; Goalkeeping Coach and Director of After the women’s team complained about having to play games on artificial turf while the men did not, the federation started scheduling their games on grass. Josh Wolff (born February 25, 1977) is an American soccer coach and former player. And besides, when the women head to France this summer, fans will crowd around their TVs in hopes of seeing the United States hoist a major trophy – when is the last time the men’s team did that? The difference is certainly less striking than in years past, but it also doesnât appear parity will be achieved soon. Gregg Berhalter (/ b Ér Ë h ÉË l t Ér /, bÉr-HAWL-tÉr; born August 1, 1973) is an American soccer coach and former player. In fact, Ellis was the 10th-highest paid employee at the federation with $318,533 total compensation for the 2017-2018 fiscal year – even though she’s the only one on the list who has won a world championship for the federation. But it’s also due to the men failing to qualify for last year’s World Cup, which cost the federation millions in prize money and lower revenues from friendlies. But there’s still more work left to do. Or is it incumbent on US Soccer to change market realities if it can? Cordeiro recently vowed a “strategic review” and “a complete inventory” of all women’s programming after struggles at the U-20 and U-17 Women’s World Cups. In the tax filing released this week, Ellis was listed as earning much less than several coaches on the menâs side, including the under-20 menâs coach. She led the USA to, a spectacular Women’s World Cup victory in 2015, a failed bid to qualify for the Rio Olympics, wage discrimination complaint from women’s national team players, said he supported during his presidential campaign, complained about having to play games on artificial turf. [1] When it comes to representing the US at the highest levels of the beautiful game, itâs been the USWNT that has been the face of ⦠In fact, despite being fired in 2016, Klinsmann has continued to earn huge payouts from US Soccer. Instead of this unfortunate reality exonerating US Soccer’s decisions, however, it raises larger, more important questions. In one month of work in 2018, US menâs national team coach Gregg Berhalter earned nearly as much as Ellis earned in an entire year. The official site of the USMNT Soccer Players with soccer news, schedule, statistics, players, interviews, and exclusive stories. But it appears that decision was driven more by optics rather than an effort to retain her services. That, of course, has been a key argument in the lawsuit USWNT players filed against US Soccer: the men were compensated handsomely just for playing the game whereas the women only got paid well if they won. One of only two players to have featured for both the United States and Mexico, he has served as a coach since retiring, most recently with the United States. The market dictates what a coach should be paid, the argument goes. Last modified on Thu 20 Feb 2020 15.36 GMT. That raise, the federation says, will put Ellis’ salary well above what Ramos and Herzog earned in the latest filing. Those right circumstances could mean total control over the team, 200 vacation days a year and a bazillion dollar salary. Right now, a respectable figure is certainly needed, so Ramos deserves to be part of the conversation. Indeed, Klinsmann has been the best-paid coach US Soccer has ever had, and yet his compensation pales in comparison to the sums managers can command at super clubs around the world in menâs football. This is despite Ellis having been at the federation four years longer, and Berhalter having none of the proven success of Ellis, who had won one World Cup at that point.