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2025 CSC Member Survey Home Page

Compensation & Career Satisfaction Dashboard

Member Institution Communications Staffing Dashboard

College Sports Communicators (CSC), in partnership with the CSC Advocacy Committee, conducted two major surveys in February 2025 to assist members and member institutions with benchmark industry data to help make decisions and advocate for themselves and their departments.

The 2025 CSC Compensation & Career Satisfaction Survey, distributed to all current members, provided an update to data collected in February 2020. The information in this dashboard is based on responses from approximately 22% of the CSC’s membership, and provides understanding about the experience of individual CSC members working in college athletics.

The 2025 CSC Member Institution Communications Staffing Survey was distributed to communications directors or their designees from CSC member schools at all divisions. Data in this dashboard is based on nearly 700 responses from schools at all divisions and provides understanding about staffing and resources on campus in athletics communications offices.

Results and reports

• Executive summary (PDF)
• Divisional Summaries (one-page PDF)
  • DI FBS  |  DI FCS  |  DI Non-Football  |  DII  |  DIII  |  NAIA  |  Two-Year Colleges  |  Canadian Institutions
• 2025 CSC Compensation & Career Satisfaction Survey (individual survey interactive dashboard)
• 2025 CSC Member Institution Communications Staffing Survey (school survey interactive dashboard)

“As the landscape of college athletics continues to shift, communications remain a critical component to any successful athletics program,” said 2024-25 CSC President Kevin Trainor. “Few areas of a department or organization have the widespread impact, influence and intrinsic value of well-resourced communications and creative staffs. As decision makers face increasing resource challenges, it is imperative that they are equipped with quality data and recommendations to support staff who are essential in delivering an exceptional experience to our student-athletes. I am appreciative to those who participated in the surveys and all who continue to advocate for CSC and its members.”

CSC members, athletics directors, presidents and chancellors, and other leaders in college sports are encouraged to use this data to advocate for and enhance their communications and creative operations in their athletics departments.

CSC plans to continue to update this data on a regular basis going forward. Questions about the dashboards or results can be directed to CSC Director of Communications and Brand Strategy Beau White at beau@cscommunicators.com.