Analyze job market data only Intercollegiate can provide for the sports medicine industry in college athletics. Discover job openings, compensation insights, and career mobility trends.
Overview
This guide provides sports medicine professionals with data exclusive to Intercollegiate in the college athletic career field. The comprehensive report includes job availability, salary trends, and staff movement to help job seekers and hiring managers navigate the field.
Sports medicine professionals are in high demand for college athletics programs, as the departmental category consistently ranks among the most frequently posted jobs. In fact, sports medicine has held Intercollegiate’s top spot of most job posts eleven of the last twelve months.
On Intercollegiate.co, the sports medicine departmental category is an umbrella for:
- Athletic Training
- Sports Nutrition
- Sports Psychology
- Strength and Conditioning/Athletic Performance
- Director of Sports Medicine
Job Market Overview
Active Sports Medicine Jobs
- Total active DI sports medicine jobs: 207
- Jobs that specify 1+ years of experience*: 99
- Jobs that specify 5+ years of experience*: 9
*Not every job discloses its years of experience requirement and salary range. When a school does provide this information, you can be certain that it is prominently showcased on Intercollegiate.
Last 30 Days
- Total DI sports medicine jobs posted: 69
Last Six Months
- Total DI sports medicine jobs posted: 1,184
2024 at a Glance: Sports Medicine Job Openings
In 2024, there have been an average of 70 sports medicine job postings per week. Openings clearly vamp up the first week of March, peak the week of June 9, and consistently drop from July 14 onward. This can be attributed to the summer offseason and fiscal year budget approvals.
Here’s what we can learn from nearly a year’s worth of job posts:
- Athletic departments queue jobs to post at the beginning of the calendar year.
- Sports medicine job postings are less frequent during the winter and fall sports seasons.
- April-July is peak period of hiring for sports medicine, with June being the hottest month of the job market.
These trends also line up with the ebb and flow in comparison to the rest of the administrative job categories. The chart below compares the amount of sports medicine postings to all administrative positions by week.
A few recent desirable openings
Compensation Insights
Intercollegiate hosts two unique features that allow us to share this data. Salaries and pay details, when provided, are displayed on Intercollegiate’s site, allowing you to filter by pay to help you find a job that meets your needs. Open and expired job posts remain visible, allowing you to see key data such as the last time a search was conducted for the respective job.
Top 3 best-paying jobs in the last six months
- $116,000 – $165,000/yr: Sport Psychologist: University of California, San Diego
- $95,680 – $158,230/yr: Head Football Athletic Trainer: University of Southern California
- $75,400 – $135,700/yr: Director, Olympic Sports Nutrition: Auburn University
Career Mobility Tracker via Intercollegiate Wire
The Intercollegiate Wire, college athletics’ most comprehensive personnel movement tracker, allows us to monitor promotions, contract extensions, new hires, and departures across D-I and D-II athletic programs.
Personnel movement in D1 sports medicine jobs (last four months)
- New Hires: 39
- Promotions: 6
- Extensions: 0
Notable senior sports medicine moves
- September 17 – Kevin Addison: Hired as Senior Director of Sports Medicine at the University of Louisville
- September 16 – Jim Berry: Hired as Associate A.D. of Sports Medicine (Head Football, Triathlon) at the United States Naval Academy
- September 6 – Andrea Rugley-Clark: Hired as Director of Sports Medicine – Olympic Sports (Volleyball) at Georgia Institute of Technology
Recent News
- September 3, 2024 – UNLV News Center: The Evolution From Sports to Sports Medicine: Jaineet Chhabra, family medicine resident at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, is making his mark in the sports medicine field
- July 23, 2024 – Forbes: New Labor Rules Squeeze College Athletics: Pay Hikes And Staff Shortages
- May 8, 2024 – Associated Press: Underpaid and overworked. Colleges, universities having trouble hiring, retaining athletic trainers
- May 8, 2024 – Newswise: National Athletic Trainers’ Association, American College of Sports Medicine to Release Joint Statement Addressing Labor Crisis in Collegiate Athletic Trainer Workforce
Get the Most out of Intercollegiate as a Sports Medicine Professional
- Explore the latest D-I sports medicine job openings by narrowing your search filters. For niche results, tailor the search to a specific state, conference, salary minimum, or even a specific school.
- Pro Tip: Enable “active and expired job posts” to view compensation trends from previously-posted positions.
- Use Intercollegiate Wire to its fullest potential by using filters and keyword searches to narrow the Wire to showcase personnel movements relevant to your network.
- Pro Tip: Try selecting sports medicine as the department and D-I as the division for a narrowed field of results.
- Create a free account to unlock the ability to bookmark job posts, create custom email alerts, view profiles of the 50,000+ personnel across college athletics, and more.
FAQs
How many Division I sports medicine jobs were posted in the last 30 days?
- There were 207 active sports medicine jobs, with 69 new postings.
How can I track personnel movement among sports medicine professionals?
- Intercollegiate Wire provides a detailed tracker for new hires, promotions, and contract extensions in Division I sports medicine.
Where can I find current sports medicine job openings?
- You can find the latest sports medicine job postings by visiting Intercollegiate’s job search.
Which administrative departmental category consistently posts the most jobs in college athletics?
- Sports medicine jobs have proven to be the most-frequently posted among all administrative departments.
