The 2024 Checklick Compensation Survey continues to deliver interesting results from the coaches within the Checklick Community.
Read on to learn more about this year’s survey, and you’ll be able to download your copy of the infographic at the bottom of this post.
This year, we had slightly fewer respondents than our monster sample last year, about 10% less. Last year’s results showed a sharp increase in average hourly pay. This year continued that trend. As always, we want to provide you with the highest resolution on the data to make sure you are empowered to make accurate budgeting decisions. Again, we provide average hourly pay along with the median to help you understand the data set. In this post, we’ll go over our methodology, new questions, rationale, errors, and distributions.
Thank you to all respondents!
Methodology
In a similar fashion to last year, the polled population were coaches who use Checklick.
Here are details about the survey;
- 294 respondents
- Survey was open to responses for 1.5 months
- 224 in 2020 vs 220 in 2021 vs 217 in 2022 vs 326 in 2023 vs 294 in 2024
Our survey is distributed via email to coaches. Again, this year, social media was a huge help in distributing our survey. Shout out to Sail Canada for getting involved again to help engage coaches using Checklick.
Same as last year, we asked our standard 13 questions. Standard questions are nationality, pay, age, experience, qualifications, etc. Not much of a change this year, except for a different example response for hourly pay. We did that in hopes of getting more consistent responses and leaving it open enough for people to respond accurately. This year, we were interested in finding out about non-monetary compensation. We will release this data in a future post, and hopefully, it can help you sweeten the deal for your potential hires.
All the questions were phrased as simply and directly as possible to reduce survey attrition. All the questions related to demographic information (Age, Experience, Qualifications) could be directly compared to the previous year’s surveys.
Data was collected via Google Forms. Response distribution outputs that are provided by the application were used, however, the more significant findings came from the raw data analysis.
Questions and Rationale
Compensation is a short answer currency figure. This response is cross-referenced with that respondent’s reported national currency and was then converted to Canadian Dollars. Exchange rates were determined via a Google search on March 7th, 2025. The EUR to CAD was converted at $1.5272, and the USD to CAD was converted at $1.4401.
As for the rest of the questions, some of the core questions can be directly compared to previous iterations of the Checklick Compensation Survey. The survey does still skew towards the sport of sailing, especially within Canada.
Errors
All questions were written in a way that allowed for simple responses. However, we are still seeing odd responses in the hourly wage question despite adding a new example. Any written responses that are not numerical (or discernibly numerical) are deleted and marked $0.00. Volunteers are marked as $0.00. These figures are not weighed in the averages or medians. When provided an hourly range, we take the median and input that as hourly pay. Salaries are also converted to hourly pay based on an 8-hour day.
Distributions
This year, again, we are providing the averages of our distribution data via an infographic. Check that out as we think it’s direct, informative and cuts some of the noise of how we have done this in the past.
Takeaway
Average hourly pay across the board rose again this year. It may be very likely that we are following the same set of coaches as they progress through promotion after promotion. It’s never been better to get into the coaching world with a ~30% increase in pay over the last 4 years.
In our next post, we will look at the data with a finer comb. We will provide you with the same breakdowns and insights as last year. Then, in a subsequent post, we will take a look at comparisons between regions and years
Download 2024 Coach Compensation Survey Report
