And people we complaining that the high performance person for SA was only going to get 75k + car + super.

THis is 95k including car and super.

Works out to be about the same

another high paid administrator job.

High paid - you've got to be kidding. For a CEO position that is truly peanuts - and you know the saying about paying peanuts. Truly good generalist administrators/managers simply will not look at a job at that level.

But that's all it is, an administrators job with a fancy title, 95k total package is generous.

The two points in the detailed description:

- Provide strategic guidance to the executive and clubs, ensuring the league can continue to thrive in the Victorian sporting landscape
- Manage all league stakeholder relationships, including Basketball Victoria, Basketball Australia, clubs, teams and the passionate individuals who make up the BigV community

That's where a $95K package position is at odds with what a GOOD afmin would be able to achieve in these areas. If they truly want a strategic manager with good stakeholder management skills, then they need to pay more.

its a PACKAGE valued UP TO $95k which includes super, car allowance, phone allowance etc. Take home Salary is probably closer to $70k which is what a half decent SALES REP would get. Not a highly paid job at all.

Mike gibson is considering applying .

people think money grows on trees...

basketball is a minor sport with relatively high costs and small revenue streams... why would people be on 200k to run leagues, clubs etc. ridiculous!

And that's why we should all lower our expectation of bball senior management. People expect strategic and marketing miracles from people who aren't made or paid to do that.

the COE role at Big V is not a decision makers role. You cant do much without the delegates agreeing to it. It should not be advertised as a CEO in the forst place. Good people will get frustrated by the lack of support from most clubs and the fact that its way to hands on.

i agree with beth davis if you find the right people you are laughing, don't give it to some blugger with a degree that things it will be easy to sit and do nothing...

Yep, they exist. But passion and love of the sport only go so far. A young "breakout" person will likely then take the experience of being successful, and move on to a higher paid role. So then you need to find yet another - very hit and miss.

true. but id rather have someone passionate and ambitious for 2 years... rather than a lazy slob for 10 years.

I wouldn't suggest it's an either/or. 2 years of passionate ambition is great, as long as you can follow it up with another 2 years passion and ambition from the next one - hard to recruit and get right that often I'd suggest.

As anon #434241 said, don't pitch it as a CEO decision makers role, and get a good solid admin/operational person in the role (which the $95K package comes closer to finding). The only thing is you have to stop expecting so much strategy and growth in that situation.

To bethdavis10 - good CEO types are ambitious by nature, it's part of what makes them good at those roles. Passionate does not equal competent or capable.

$95K is peanuts for any senior management position. As #434194 rightly says, a half decent sales rep job would pay similar. It's all well & good to say it's about finding people with a passion for the sport for whom money isn't so important but people still need to pay mortgages, feed families, etc so if you want quality people in these roles then you have to allow them to earn a decent living.

Look at the poor standard of administration in the sport around the country. A lot of administrators probably couldn't land a job in any other field but are paid good money to work in basketball. Surely it's worth paying a little extra to get somebody with genuine ability into this type of role.

95k package is 75k salary + super + car allowance.

Its enough to attract someone with enough competency to for-fill the role, the title is misleading, its largely a figure head and an administrative role.

Not a lot of money at all for the responsibility I would have thought.
As people have already said it's a basic good salemans salary.
One excellent salesman I know earns $150k yearly and over numerous years. Little incentive for them to go backwards I would have thought no matter how passionate they may be about basketball.

Nobody would step back into this role, they would step up into it.
A sales exec on $150K a year would be bringing in 3-4 $Mill of sales income a year minimum unassisted.

What's BigV's annual income?

good point anon... its certainly not 4 million I would say

they would have a modest profit each season given they spend bugger all on real marketing. Its pretty easy to work out thier income by just adding up the team fees. The biggest overhead will be wages which going on the advert you have a CEO @ $90 plus 4 minions @ less than or abouk each $50k each.

Sorry to say but by industry standards BigV is a just a small business. 4 staff and a modest turnover simply doesn't justify high end executive staff or salaries, no different to GM's of bigger clubs, they're not 20 mill businesses.

<5 staff is a micro business, < 15 staff is small business.

BigV is on that border of micro to small, kind of puts things into perspective.