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I don't know the details on each sports officials on assignments and what not but maybe some observations.
D1 basketball officials, if they are the good/popular ones, work quite a few nights a week for different conferences. Monday night they're doing an ACC game, Tuesday they're in Big 10 games, etc.
Could they be responsible for travel costs (cars, fuel, airfare, hotels, food, etc) and the amount of pay goes towards that.
I know that they all holds jobs, but I would think if your a big time basketball officials, your not working your "real" job a whole lot from Nov/Dec, through March. So the pay reflects that fact.
D1 baseball umps, might work one or two game during the week, but it's usually a local game so the extra amount of pay doesn't need to be there. They usually won't work a whole lot until the teams have the series on the weekend. Many will not work at that time and miss out on pay and also many conferences/schools take care of hotels, at least from what I've seen.
Again I don't know all the specifics but just thoughts.
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