Highest-paid NFL Head Coaches of 2025: Andy Reid, Sean Payton, Mike Tomlin, And More

More the winning percentage, more your salary slays? Wrong. More the age, more the experience, and so, more your salary slays? Yeah, somewhat true for the NFL head coaches of 2025. Andy Reid tops the list of bank-breaking salary slips of NFL head coaches of 2025.

The Kansas City Chiefs head coach’s average annual salary is $20 million! It has been more than 26 years of Reid’s reign! 3 Super Bowl titles. 0.646 winning percentage! This HC is indomitable! Even though Super Bowl LIX could not be his, and many wanted him to dethrone, so far, there’s no display of succumbing to despair!

According to Spotrac, 67-year-old Andy Reid signed a 6-year contract extension through 2025 with the Kansas City Chiefs on August 31, 2020. Anyway, there are others to this costly list of the highest-paid NFL head coaches in 2025. Let’s talk about them.

🚨REPORT: #Chiefs HC Andy Reid signed a new 5-year, 100 MILLION DOLLARS contract
in April.

This made Reid the HIGHEST-PAID COACH IN SPORTS, per @Sportico.

Reid has won three Super Bowls in five years & is not stopping.

ANDY REID IS NOT RETIRING ANYTIME SOON. pic.twitter.com/jIzjpr7S0f

— MLFootball (@_MLFootball) November 21, 2024

Former New Orleans Saints HC and current Denver Broncos Sean Payton

Sean Payton signed a 5-year contract extension with the Denver Broncos on February 3, 2023. The 61-year-old head coach earns an annual income of $18 million! Payton’s former team was the New Orleans Saints from January 2006 to January 2023. Under his guidance, the Denver Broncos could make their first playoff appearance in 2024! The last was made by them in 2015.


Longest-running head coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Mike Tomlin

53-year-old Mike Tomlin has been with the Pittsburgh Steelers since 2007! He signed a 4-year deal worth a $10 million contract. On June 10, 2024, Tomlin signed a 3-year contract extension with the Pittsburgh Steelers for $16 million a year! This contract keeps Tomlin with the Steelers through 2027. According to Sportico, Mike Tomlin is the longest tenured head coach in the NFL! 2025 would mark Tomlin’s 19th year with the Pittsburgh Steelers.


Former San Francisco 49ers and current Los Angeles Chargers head coach, Jim Harbaugh

“Jim Harbaugh is the 3rd highest paid coach in football. Tell me why? ... You make more than Urban Meyer. Have you beat him yet?”

— @ShannonSharpe pic.twitter.com/s8bwiGJ9c9

— FOX Sports (@FOXSports) July 24, 2018

Jim Harbaugh signed a 5-year contract worth $25 million with the San Francisco 49ers in January 2011, but resigned from the head coach’s role in December 2014. Then, in January 2024, 61-year-old Jim Harbaugh joined the Los Angeles Chargers and signed a contract worth $80 million total with a yearly wage of $16 million! Harbaugh was one of the highest-paid NFL coaches in 2024! Harbaugh’s win percentage stands tall at 0.688 - again, the highest win percentage among the top 10 highest-paid NFL coaches!


Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay has the most regular season wins

Sean McVay now has the most regular season wins (76) for a head coach in Rams franchise history 👏 pic.twitter.com/PrCDWU4TFn

— FOX Sports: NFL (@NFLonFOX) December 2, 2024

With 8 NFL seasons in hand, Los Angeles Rams' youngest head coach Sean McVay had the most regular season wins (76) for a head coach in Rams franchise history, as reported by NFLonFOX via their X on December 2, 2024. According to Sportico, Sean McVay earns an average yearly salary of $15 million! McVay ranks as the 5th-highest-paid NFL coach as of May 2025.


Kyle Shanahan, John Harbaugh, Dan Campbell, Sean McDermott, and Mike Macdonald complete the list of the top 10 highest-paid NFL head coaches as of May 2025

49ers, head coach Kyle Shanahan agree to new contract through 2025 season. (via @RapSheet) pic.twitter.com/BP9LfBj69N

— NFL (@NFL) June 15, 2020

According to Sportico, 45-year-old Kyle Shanahan ranks as 6th-highest NFL head coach in 2025 and earns a yearly income of $14 million. San Francisco 49ers head coach Shanahan is followed by John Harbaugh. 62-year-old John Harbaugh earns $12 million per year and carries a win percentage of 0.619 for the Baltimore Ravens!

49-year-old Dan Campbell, head coach of the Detroit Lions, receives $11 million per year. Campbell shares the title of 8th-highest-paid NFL head coach with 51-year-old Sean McDermott, who receives $11 million annually. McDermott is the head coach for the Buffalo Bills. 37-year-old Mike Macdonald, head coach for the Seattle Seahawks, has a win percentage of 0.500 and takes home $9 million yearly.




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