According to reports, the New York Jets are to pay Coach Robert Saleh over $500K a month for the next two years, even after sacking him. This is substantial amount of money is a lesson to coaches about how their contracts should be structured. You always have to check out clauses that protect your interests.
Coach Saleh won’t have to worry about the Jets terminating his contract as he will still make a huge amount of money at the end of every month for the next 24 months.
Just days on from Sunday’s loss to the Minnesota Vikings in London – where he controversially wore a Lebanon flag on the sidelines – Saleh was relieved of his duties in New York.
The dismissal came just five games into his fourth season with the franchise, which had already seen the team endure misery, having slipped to 2-3 after Sunday’s loss.
Saleh signed a five-year contract with the Jets when he took charge of the floundering franchise in 2021, and thanks to that deal, the coach is set for a juicy paycheck for the next two years, according to reports.
The deal he inked upon his arrival in the Big Apple is thought to be worth around $5-7million a year, according to reports.
That could mean that the beleaguered coach reportedly is set to bank a payout that could be worth as much as almost 19,178.08 a day from the Jets.
The figure breaks down to as much as $583,333.33 per month or $134,615.38 a week, which works out at a stunning $799.09 per hour and $13.32 dollars per minute.
It’s a staggering amount for a man who departs with a dismal 20-36 record after failing to make the playoffs in each of his three full seasons.
But Saleh will continue to provide for his family as he shares seven children – sons Adam, Zane, Michael, Sam and Jacob, and daughters Mila and Ella – with wife Sanaa.
Coach Saleh is now gone and it will be intriguing to see how this financial arrangement plays out and what impact it may have on both his future career prospects and the Jets’ organizational strategy moving forward.
