Sports ETA, SearchWide Global, and Northstar Meetings Group Present New Executive Compensation Report for the Sports Events and Tourism Industry

Sports ETA and SearchWide Global released the “2023 Sports Destination Leaders Salary, Compensation and Benefits Report” led by researchers from Stoll Strategies, sponsored by the Northstar Meetings Group.

The benchmark study provides an overall look at the employment landscape for the $39.7 billion sports events and tourism industry among sports destinations while offering a resource to organizations with actionable information.

The last industry Salary, Compensation and Benefits Report was conducted in 2013 by Enigma Research Corporation. The research for the 2023 report was led by Dr. Jennifer Stoll, and Dr. Blake Price, from Stoll Strategies.

Data from more than 200 sports destination leaders, with a majority of those employed by a Destination Marketing Organization or Convention & Visitors Bureau, was collected and organized in the six following areas of the report:

• Organization Information

• Performance Goals

• Industry Experience

• Employment Agreements

• Salaries and Bonuses

• Benefits

“It’s been 10 years since we last released a Salary and Benefits report for the sports events and tourism industry,” said Al Kidd, President & CEO of Sports ETA. “The 2023 Sports Destination Leaders Salary, Compensation and Benefits Report represents large and small to mid-sized organizations and will resource leaders, and their organizations, with actionable information related to this area of the industry. This study will also serve as a benchmark for future analyses.”

“We are thrilled to partner with Sports ETA on this report,” said Mike Gamble, President & CEO of SearchWide Global. “This is a resource that will be beneficial to both sports leaders and organizations in understanding where the industry stands with compensation, benefits, and o verall structure.”

“Northstar’s sports division, most notably our SportsTravel magazine brand, has been keeping professionals who organize, manage and host sporting events of all types up-to-date on all things related to the industry for decades,” said David Blansfield, Executive Vice President, Northstar Meetings Group. “We’re excited to support this important Sports ETA report and we’ll help make it widely available through our media channels to organizations who can benefit from it.”

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Listen to this SportsTravel Podcast with Dr. Jennifer Stoll, Stoll Strategies, and Cambria Jones, SearchWide Global, as they discuss some hard facts about not only what industry professionals are being paid, but how they are being compensated as well with Jason Gewirtz, SportsTravel.