With the second-best playoff winning percentage (.667) among active coaches and two trips to the Super Bowl in recent years, Kyle Shanahan is widely regarded as one of the best coaches in the NFL. But is he paid like an elite head coach? Let’s examine the San Francisco 49ers head coach’s contract and salary.
Kyle Shanahan’s Salary and Contract
Unlike player salaries, NFL head coaches’ salaries aren’t publicly available, so we’re typically relying on sourced reports.
Multiple outlets have Shanahan earning $14 million a year, which reportedly makes him the sixth-highest-paid coach in the league.
Previously, Shanahan was under contract through the 2025 campaign, but then he received a multi-year contract extension in 2023. This is the second extension that Shanahan has inked with the 49ers, with the other coming in 2020.
San Francisco didn’t reveal how many years were added to his deal, but some reports indicate that his deal now stretches through the 2027 season.
“I feel very grateful,” Shanahan said shortly after inking the extension. “Just being a coach anywhere for a long time, I know what that means, and extremely grateful to have that opportunity and mainly for my family to be somewhere for so long, which is cool…
“I really like where we live and really like the people we work with, and they’re committed to giving us a chance to go for it every single year, and that’s all I could ever ask for.”
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Shanahan has been one of the NFL’s highest-paid coaches for quite some time. When he signed his first extension with the 49ers in June 2020, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that the deal made Shanahan “one of the NFL’s five highest-paid head coaches.”
That first extension was estimated to have been worth around $10 million per season, which was a significant raise from the $3.5 million salary Shanahan initially received when the 49ers hired him as a first-time head coach in 2017.
It’s safe to say that Shanahan is doing well for himself financially. And since he’s only 44 years old, he still has a ton of earning potential going forward since he could continue coaching for several more decades.
