Making money as a career coach
What Can I Earn as a Career Coach?
On average, IACC-certified career coaches earn $137K USD a year.
What you’ll earn as an IACC-certified career coach depends on your region, the macroeconomic environment, and your own choices. In the United States, a certified career coach can expect to earn an average of $140K per year—some of our coaches make $400-500K.
As a point of comparison, US life coaches tend to make between $22K and $51K a year depending on the region. The average salary for school guidance counsellors is around $57K. In other words, if you’re attracted to coaching in general, career coaching is, in addition to being rewarding and exciting, relatively lucrative.
Do you want to learn how to run your own business helping people build careers they love?
In the IACC's Senior Professional Career Coach (SPCC)® Certification you'll learn:
Who you'll meet
Cara Heilmann is the International Association of Career Coaches' Founding Instructor and President.
With over 20 years of experience in talent acquisition and HR leadership, Cara left the corporate world in 2013 to empower job seekers and transform their careers.
She then went on to found the International Association of Career Coaches to help others find their path to starting a successful career coaching business.
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