LUKE Beveridge has implored fellow AFL clubs to follow the Western Bulldogs' lead and give coaches the security of longer contracts.

The premiership coach is dismayed by the push for rolling one-year-deals for senior and assistant coaches by a growing number of clubs, believing the uncertainty of those contracts in a niche industry puts undue pressure on the them and their families.  

The trend is due to the fear of having to payout a sacked coach's contract and then the club incurring a tax of 75 per cent for every dollar they spend over the football department cap - set at $9.6 million last year.  

Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley is one coach on a one-year deal, while Carlton's Brendon Bolton isn't contracted and is instead employed as a full-time staff member by the Blues.  

Beveridge, who is under contract until 2020, says the Bulldogs have ensured his assistant coaches have also been locked into two and three-year deals, or are in the process of doing so.  

"We don't believe in (short-term contracts)," Beveridge told News Corp.  

"It absolutely disturbs me (that coaches) have mortgages, they have families, they have young children.

"There is also the fact these are niche jobs.  

"We are not lawyers or accountants or doctors, or builders or electricians, where if we get moved on, we can go and earn a similar wage somewhere else.  

"Once you get moved on, there is a fair chance there is nothing for you, and you have to go and take on a totally different vocation."
 
Beveridge has expressed his concerns to the AFL Coaches' Association, believing young coaches may not be willing to take the plunge into an unstable industry with little or no job security.  

"I've spoken to them (the AFLCA) and they know exactly what we do (at the Bulldogs)," Beveridge said.  

"So I find it really surprising there is commentary around all clubs trying to go that way, because all clubs aren't trying to do that. We are taking it a completely different pathway."