USMNT's Gregg Berhalter is U.S. Soccer's highest-paid employee at $1.2M

Vlatko Andonovski earned $357,597 over his first full year as the United States women's coach, less than 28% of the $1,291,539 that went to men's coach Gregg Berhalter.

The figures were revealed in the U.S. Soccer Federation's tax filing for the year ending on March 31, 2021, which was released Wednesday.

Berhalter's salary was roughly the same as the $1,294,871 he earned in the previous 12 months. He was the USSF's highest-paid employee.

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Andonovski, hired in October 2019, earned about half of the $718,352 made by his predecessor, Jill Ellis, in the year ending March 31, 2020, but that fiscal year included the Women's World Cup, where the Americans won their fourth title. U.S. coaches' contracts contain large bonuses for World Cup performance.

Ellis, listed as an ambassador and former key employee, earned $413,440 in the latest fiscal year under a contract that ended in March 2021.

This latest disclosure follows the trend of past years where the USMNT coach earned more — sometimes multiples more — than the coach of the USWNT. The federation's 2020 tax filings found that Berhalter had earned in one month nearly what U.S. Soccer had paid Ellis for an entire year of work.

In Wednesday's filings, former men's player Earnie Stewart, promoted in August 2019 to federation sporting director from men's national team general manager, earned $799,699, up from $731,261. Brian McBride, also a former men's player who replaced Stewart as GM in January 2020, earned $338,417.

Women's team general manager Kate Markgraf earned $500,000. She