Lane Kiffin is the head coach of the University of Mississippi’s football team, Ole Miss. His net worth as of 2022 is valued at $6 million. Kiffin used to be a football player himself, playing for Fresno State as their quarterback from 1994 to 1996.
As legend has it, Lane Kiffin’s first coaching job was as an assistant for Fresno State. Coaching seemed to be in his blood too, considering that his father, Monte Kiffin, was also a coach himself.
In the past, he’s taken on the role of training coach for various college institutions, such as USC. His first stint as head coach, however, was with the Oakland Raiders, where he stayed on for a full year, from 2007 to 2008 before going back to college football. At 31, this made him the youngest coach with Oakland in the entire history of the NFL.
Among his long list of coaching experience, which has contributed to Lane Kiffin’s net worth, include:
- Tight ends coach – USC 2001
- Wide receivers coach – USC 2002-2004
- Offensive coordinator – USC 2005-2006
- Head Coach – Oakland Raiders, 2007-2008
- Head coach – Tennessee, 2009
- Head coach – USC, 2010-2013
- Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach – Alabama, 2014
Lane Kiffin Salary
Lane Kiffin sits comfortably being one of the top 5 SEC coaches that have an annual salary of at least $7 million. When he signed with the University of Mississippi in 2019, he signed on not only as head coach, but also as the receiver of a four-year-deal that only gets better every time.
All four years of service until 2023 considered, Kiffin would stand to earn as much as $16.2 million in total.
Lane Kiffin Contract
In 2021, Ole Miss extended Kiffin’s contract. On top of his salary, he is also guaranteed a $100,000 annual raise until 2025. Another $3.5 million is also promised for the salary of the support staff.
The contract also stipulates that he will be earning another cool $200,000 if Ole miss is able to move 40,000 season tickets at the very least. And on top of that, he’ll also set to receive a $150,000 bonus everytime they win against an SEC team, which should kick in at the fifth SEC of any given season.
Kiffin is also expected to rake in another $100,000 bonus everytime the team wins in a non-conference Power 5 match.
Overall, Lane Kiffin career earnings are looking to be very robust and lucrative for many more years to come.
Lane Kiffin Investments
Even without any big name Lane Kiffin endorsements or Lane Kiffin sponsors, his salary alone is enough to afford him luxuries in life.
In 2017, while he was still the head coach of Flordia Atlantic University, Kiffin bought a $2.1 million home in Boca Raton, Florida. The property was reportedly to be at 6,190 square feet, and included a swimming pool.
Prior to this, Kiffin had also been known to hold residences in LA, with spectacular views, from the Hollywood Hills to Santa Monica Pier, to the Griffith Observatory. And then he moved to Tuscaloosa when he came to coach for Alabama.
Lane Kiffin Charities
In 2020, Lane Kiffin donated $20,000 to Rebel Aid as part of the funds that were to help those suffering from the pandemic. Kiffin was joined by other heads of university athletics departments to reach the $50,000 goal.
The year prior, in 2019, Kiffin became the subject of a tribute-turned business venture-turned charity opportunity. When Kiffin left FAU in 2017, an avid football and Kiffin fan decided to sell shirts with the coach’s face on it.
The idea took off, and pretty soon, it had turned into a full-blown business venture, complete with business partners—fellow UAB students Drake Grisham and Matt Lewis. Together, they co-founded Head Coach Tees.
When Kiffin got wind of the business, he connected them to Owl Time, another off-campus apparel store, for a potential partnership. His only condition was that 10 percent of the profits should be donated to the Inky Allison Johnson Foundation. This foundation offers scholarships for thos high school seniors who are “overcoming adversity.”
Today, Lane Kiffin continues to coach for Ole Miss. Making this occasion even more memorable for him is the fact tha he is working with his dad Monte, considered to be one of NFL’s greatest defensive coordinators, being the player personnel analyst for the team.
Lane Kiffin is not particularly known for over-the-top or extravagant purchases from his coaching salary. But he is, in fact, known for his humor that has elevated him somewhat to a meme status in the online community.
