In 2018, Jill Ellis guided the top-ranked U.S. women’s national soccer team through 20 matches without a loss and earned a berth in the World Cup the following summer in France. Her base salary was $389,409, 30-percent higher than she earned the previous year and, by all accounts, the most in the world for a women’s national team coach.
The same year, Gregg Berhalter, coach of the middling U.S. men’s squad, received $304,113 in base salary and a substantial bonus — except he had been on the job for only a month.
Those figures came to light this week in the U.