Jarvis Hayes' Georgia basketball salary, football assistant raise revealed
The salary for new Georgia basketball assistant Jarvis Hayes and a big boost in pay for football assistant Kirk Benedict have been released.
The salary for former NBA first-round draft pick Jarvis Hayes to serve as a Georgia basketball assistant was released on Thursday April 16. So was a significant boost in pay to a Georgia football assistant coach. They both were obtained by the Athens Banner-Herald in an open-records request.
Hayes, who started on April 7, will make $300,000. That's the same salary at which assistant Todd Abernethy was hired when he joined the staff last year. Hayes is a former Georgia State assistant who was a two-time Georgia All-SEC first-team selection before becoming the No.
10 overall pick in the 2003 NBA Draft. He led the SEC in scoring at 18. 6 points per game in 2002.
His brother, Jonas, who also played at Georgia, was also hired as a Bulldog assistant coach on April 15. As for the football assistant raise, special teams coordinator Kirk Benedict got a boost in pay of $247,000 to bring his total pay to $650,000. The 38-year old Benedict is in his fifth season coaching special teams under Kiby Smart at Georgia.