NFL Head Coach Salaries
Team: New Orleans Saints
Career Record: 79 – 43 – 0 (.648)
Championships: NFC – 2009
Super Bowl: 2009
NFL Coach of the Year: 2006
Salary: $8,000,0002. Bill Belichick
Team: New England Patriots
Career Record: 215 – 112 – 0 (.659)
Championships: AFC – 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2011
Super Bowl: 2001, 2003, 2004
NFL Coach of the Year: 2003, 2007, 2010
Salary: $7,500,000
3. Andy Reid
Team: Kansas City Chiefs
Career Record: 151 – 108 – 1 (.583)
Championships: NFC – 2004*
Super Bowl: None
NFL Coach of the Year: 2000, 2002
Salary: $7,500,000
*Won with Philadelphia Eagles
4. Pete Carroll
Team: Seattle Seahawks
Career Record: 77 – 61 (.558)
Championships: NFC – 2013
Super Bowl: 2013
NFL Coach of the Year: None
Salary: $7,000,000+
5. Jeff Fisher
Team: St. Louis Rams
Career Record: 159 – 141 – 1
Championships: AFC – 1999
Super Bowl: None
NFL Coach of the Year: 2008
Salary: $7,000,000
6. Mike Shanahan
Team: Washington Redskins
Career Record: 177 – 143 – 0 (.553)
Championships: AFC – 1997, 1998
Super Bowl: 1997, 1998
NFL Coach of the Year: None
Salary: $7,000,000
Offensive Coordinator of the 1994 San Francisco 49ers team which won the NFC and Superbowl.
7. John Harbaugh
Team: Baltimore Ravens
Career Record: 71 – 37 (.657)
Championships: AFC – 2012
Super Bowl: 2012
NFL Coach of the Year: None
Salary: $7,000,000
8. Tom Coughlin
Team: New York Giants
Career Record: 170 – 137 – 0 (.554)
Championships: NFC – 2007, 2011
Super Bowl: 2007, 2011
NFL Coach of the Year: None*
Salary: $6,800,000
*UPI NFL Coach of the Year
9. Chip Kelly
Team: Philadelphia Eagles
Career Record: 10 – 6 (.625)
Championships: None
Super Bowl: NA
NFL Coach of the Year: 2013
Salary: $6,500,000
10. Mike Tomlin
Team: Pittsburgh Steelers
Career Record: 76 – 44 (.633)
Championships: AFC – 2008, 2010
Super Bowl: 2008
NFL Coach of the Year: None
Salary: $6,000,000
Sean Payton was not the only NFL head coach to make it to the list of highest-paid coaches from nowhere. Tom Coughlin―the head coach for the New York Giants―and Chip Kelly―the head coach for the Philadelphia Eagles―also made it to the list at the 8th and 9th positions respectively. Before joining the Eagles, Kelly led the University of Oregon to three Pac-12 Conference championships.