{"id":2503,"date":"2009-12-01T16:19:31","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T16:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2016-08-12T10:56:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T18:56:28","slug":"life-coaching-business-dirty-laundry-the-real-reason-the-average-salary-of-a-life-coach-is-only-slightly-above-the-poverty-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/life-coaching-business-dirty-laundry-the-real-reason-the-average-salary-of-a-life-coach-is-only-slightly-above-the-poverty-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Coaching Business Dirty Laundry: The Real Reason the Average Salary of a Life Coach Is Only Slightly Above the Poverty Level"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you think that the life coaching business<\/strong><\/a> is without its own share of dirty laundry, you\u2019re fooling yourself. The statistics show that the average salary for a life coach<\/strong><\/a> during the first year is about 12K. That\u2019s only 1K above the 2008 poverty level for a single person in the U.S. That means that the average person is better off working for minimum wage than starting a life coaching business<\/strong>. If you really want to become a life coach professional, and help raise the average salary of a life coach<\/strong>, there are a few items you must clean up.<\/p>\n

How You Can Help to Raise the Average Salary of a Life Coach<\/h3>\n

The first thing you can do to help raise the average salary of a life coach<\/strong> is pay for coaching. I can\u2019t tell you how many coaches tell me, \u201cI can\u2019t afford coaching yet because I\u2019m not making money in my life coaching business<\/strong> yet,\u201d or, \u201cI\u2019m trading coaching with another coach.\u201d But the truth is that you don\u2019t really value coaching yourself enough to shell out your hard earned cash, or you aren\u2019t willing to do what it takes to make it happen.<\/p>\n

Why Paying for Life Coaching Helps the Bottom Line of Your Life Coaching Business<\/h3>\n

The reason that affects the average salary of a life coach<\/span> is not because it maintains some sort of incestuous relationship within the coaching community. It\u2019s that, if you don’t know the value of paying for life coaching, you won\u2019t enroll people into coaching yourself. How are you going to ask them to pay for something that you aren\u2019t willing to pay for yourself? It\u2019s just a bad life coaching business<\/span> practice.<\/p>\n

You Must Value Your Time to Raise the Average Salary of a Life Coach<\/h3>\n

The other reason why the average salary of a life coach<\/span> is so low is that most coaches don\u2019t value their own time to charge for coaching. And if that\u2019s really the case, it\u2019s time to take more coaching courses before you start your life coaching business.<\/span> You definitely need skills to transform someone\u2019s life, but ask yourself if it\u2019s training you are lacking or confidence in your ability to produce value.<\/p>\n

Your Salary Reflects the Accountability in Your Life Coaching Business<\/h3>\n

But the real reason that the average salary of a life coach<\/a> is so low is that they don\u2019t walk their own talk. Starting your own life coaching business is no more challenging than any other type of business. Unless you\u2019re willing to live on the edge and commit to action, how are you going to get others to do the same? There challenges are no easier than yours. No one is going to pay you unless they perceive you as the key to getting what they want.<\/p>\n

Colette Seymann
\nJTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you think that the life coaching business is without its own share of dirty laundry, you\u2019re fooling yourself. The statistics show that the average salary for a life coach during the first year is about 12K. That\u2019s only 1K above the 2008 poverty level for a single person in the U.S. That means that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[199,195],"tags":[246,984],"class_list":["post-2503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-average-salary-life-coach","category-life-coaching-business","tag-average-salary-of-a-life-coach","tag-life-coaching-business","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18616,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions\/18616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}