Steve Alford’s salary is 14.8 times higher than John Wooden’s pay
UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero, left, and Steve Alford listen to a speaker during the introduction of Alford as the Bruins’ new men’s basketball coach on April 2, 2013.
The recent heated discussion over the merits of Steve Alford’s salary to coach basketball at UCLA included a little analysis from reader Scott Ninegar.
John Wooden was paid $6,000 to coach the Bruins in 1948, his first season at UCLA. In today’s dollars, Ninegar calculated, Wooden’s $6,000 would be $57,994 when adjusted for inflation.
Wooden’s final salary in the 1975 season, when he won his 10th NCAA title, was $40,500. Ninegar calculated that would now be $175,358.
Alford’s salary is $2.6 million a year for seven years.
Ninegar has that at 14.8 times what Wooden’s $175,358 would have been after adjusting for inflation.
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