Okay, let’s talk about looking up John Harbaugh’s salary. It’s something I got curious about the other day, you know how it is. Maybe I saw something on TV after a Ravens game, or read an article mentioning head coaches and their deals.
So, What Did I Do?
First thing, I just grabbed my phone while sitting on the couch. Didn’t even get up. I opened up a browser, you know, the usual stuff. Then I started typing things in. Simple searches at first, stuff like “John Harbaugh salary” or “how much does John Harbaugh make”.
You get a bunch of results right away, mostly sports news sites, some fan blogs, things like that. I clicked on a few of the ones that looked like they might have real info, you know, the bigger sports news outlets.
What I Found Out (Sort Of)
Here’s the thing I noticed pretty quick: there isn’t one single, official number plastered everywhere. It’s not like player salaries sometimes, where the contract details get leaked or reported more officially because of the salary cap.
Most places were giving estimates. I saw numbers popping up that were generally in the same ballpark, usually several million dollars per year. Some articles talked about his contract extensions, especially the one he signed a couple of years back. They’d mention it was a multi-year deal, but the exact dollar amount per year? That seemed a bit fuzzy.
- Saw reports mentioning figures around the $12 million per year mark after his latest extension.
- Other places just said “among the highest-paid coaches” without giving a specific number.
- Found older articles with lower numbers from previous contracts. Makes sense, pay goes up.
It seems like the precise terms of these head coach deals are often kept private between the coach, his agent, and the team owner. Unlike players, there’s no official public database you can just look up.
So, I spent maybe 10-15 minutes clicking around. My takeaway was that while nobody outside the Ravens building probably knows the exact figure down to the penny, the general consensus from sports reporting puts him way up there, definitely one of the top earners among NFL coaches. You get a strong idea of the range he’s in, but not the pinpointed number. And honestly, that’s probably how they like it.
That was my little dive into it. You find a lot of educated guesses, but the hard number? Not so easy to nail down publicly.
