No, $3,851 (per school year, presumably) in Pennsylvania doesn't seem like much for all the hours and toil that go into coaching JV high school girls' basketball.

But Clay of Full Court points out that many, perhaps most, high school coaches make even less: try $1,800 per year, in California, for varsity-- a number he says hasn't changed significantly since 1977, when his own high school coaching career began.

For more on the uncompensated labor of love that is work as a high school coach, check out Christine Baker's Slice of Rye columns, especially her first.