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Old Wed Oct 04, 2017, 01:24pm
JRutledge JRutledge is offline
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Originally Posted by bucky View Post
Good info and makes sense however new officials, mostly, are not officiating enough to average $50/day as you indicated for yourself.
Maybe in your area, but around here you can work every day if you really want to. For one there are mostly lower level games which need a body more than anything and weekend tournaments that would also be youth games and can easily get a lot of that work if they wish. I belong to 3 associations and every day I get emails to cover games at some lower level or Junior High/Middle School. And in many cases, those lower level games are multiple games and pay nearly if not $50 a game. And if you get paid $45 dollars a game and you will work 3 or 4 games in a night at the middle school level, you made over $100 easily that day. Guys like me do not do that anymore because I make enough working varsity and college games and this is not my main source of income. So I have other things I would like to do but could work every day during the basketball season if I choose to. I just choose not to. But everyone gets the same emails I do regardless of experience level.

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