Assistant sports coach - Salary and Career
Physical Education Professionals

Assistant sports coach - Career description, activities, functions and salary

They develop, with children, young people and adults, physical activities, teach sports techniques, carry out specialized training with athletes from different sports, instruct them about the principles and rules inherent to each one of them, evaluate and supervise the physical preparation of athletes, monitor and supervise sports practices, prepare technical and scientific reports in the area of physical activities and sport.

How much does an Assistant sports coach earn

A Assistant sports coach earns between $1.226 and $7.725 per month, with an average monthly salary of $2.909 and a median salary of $2.182 according to an Averwage.com salary survey along with to data of professionals hired and fired by companies in the labor market.

Our research is based on the salaries of 3.575 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).


Salary ranges for the Assistant sports coach

Monthly Salary Annual Salary Salary Per Week Hourly Salary
Average wage 2.909 34.904 727 18
1º Quartile 1.226 14.710 306 8
Median Salary 2.182 26.188 546 14
3º Quartile 5.892 70.700 1.473 37
Higher Salary 7.725 92.704 1.931 48


Professional job categories

  • Science and arts professionals
    • professionals of biological sciences, health
      • physical education professionals
        • physical education professionals

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Main workplaces

Physical Education Professionals professionals provide services in the field of physical exercise with educational, health and sports performance goals. They can work in gyms and sports schools, clubs and hotels, medical and physiotherapy clinics, in home care, in direct public administration bodies, etc., as employees with a formal contract or as self-employed. They develop their work individually, in the most varied environments, at irregular hours. In some activities, some professionals may work under special conditions, eg, in uncomfortable positions for prolonged periods, under pressure, subject to weather changes and bad weather.


What does it take to work in the field of Physical Education Professionals

The exercise of family occupations requires higher education in physical education, registered with the Regional Council of Physical Education. In the job market, the number of professionals with specialization and postgraduate courses is growing. The full exercise of activities varies according to occupation, between one and four years.


Functions and activities of Assistant sports coach

Physical Education Professionals must:

  • demonstrate personal skills;
  • coordinating physical and sports activity;
  • intervening in competitive processes;
  • develop training;
  • planning professional intervention actions;
  • plan professional intervention actions;
  • identify professional intervention needs;
  • coordinate physical and sports activity;
  • communicate;
  • intervene in competitive processes;

  • Activities

    • develop technical and tactical qualities;
    • register beneficiaries;
    • control the material necessary for the development of activities;
    • schedule transportation, food and accommodation;
    • analyze the conditions of competition;
    • writing periodic technical reports;
    • integrating committee members;
    • use oral and written communication;
    • develop training with data from the evaluations performed;
    • advise on sports rules;
    • hold meetings;
    • verify the athlete's documentation before the sports administration entities;
    • demonstrate innovation capacity;
    • use drawings and graphics;
    • using gestures and signals;
    • demonstrate upgradeability;
    • guide disciplinary, tactical and technical aspects;
    • setting goals and objectives;
    • participate in meetings;
    • training athletes for fixed objectives;
    • demonstrate communicative expression ability;
    • demonstrate innovativeness;
    • use gestures and signals;
    • indicate athletes for hiring;
    • apply corrective exercises of a technical and tactical nature;
    • implement technical, tactical and physical training;
    • collect technical and physical data;
    • setting objectives and goals;
    • demonstrate innovative capacity;
    • maintain ethical and moral posture;
    • select the athlete and practitioner;
    • observe the reports of psychological, nutritional and medical aspects of the beneficiaries;
    • intervene with tactical and technical actions in competition;
    • develop physical and motor qualities;
    • apply recreational activities of technical, tactical and physical development;
    • develop cognitive abilities;
    • evaluating the results of the application of planning;
    • evaluate the behavior of athletes in competition;
    • classify beneficiaries according to characteristics and biosocial data;
    • demonstrate emotional control;
    • organize technical committee;
    • apply functional tests;
    • promoting events;
    • check the location of activities;
    • select the athlete and the practitioner;
    • guiding the athlete's behavior in competition;
    • determining the means and processes of activities;
    • use means of communication;
    • give courses and lectures;
    • analyzing the physical and technical data of the beneficiaries;
    • demonstrate creativity;
    • demonstrate leadership ability;
    • classify the beneficiaries according to characteristics and biosocial data;
    • organizing the technical committee;
    • evaluating the potential of beneficiaries;
    • organizing technical committee;
    • determining philosophy and working methods;
    • guide behavioral, social, moral and ethical aspects;
    • correct tactical and technical errors;
    • use computer resources;
    • use audiovisual resources;
    • communicate the date and place of the events to interested parties;
    • collect statistical data on the competition;
    • define physical tests;
    • communicate the date and place of events to interested parties;
    • evaluating the behavior of athletes in competition;
    • identify talents;
    • develop training with data from evaluations performed;
    • show the move to be performed;
    • scheduling training and activities;
    • adapting the exercises to the conditions and needs of the beneficiaries;
    • play the role of interlocutor;
    • schedule the time and place of activities;
    • evaluating the results of the planning application;
    • interview athletes for hiring;


    Sectors that hire Assistant sports coach the most in the job market

    • social, sports and similar clubs
    • physical conditioning activities
    • other teaching activities
    • activities of associations for the defense of social rights
    • sports education
    • welfare services without accommodation
    • temporary labor lease
    • other sports activities
    • elementary school
    • associative activities




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