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"Used to be in Eugene, OR, the associations charged the schools for training officials, assigning games, and cutting the checks to pay the officials. What a racket."
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I defend your right to have an opinion.
That being said:
Most associations in Oregon are assigned by an individual Commissioner.
The individual commissioners establish their fees by local group.
In PDX our commissioner is paid 10% of each game check. The same commissioner currently assigns both the high school season and the summer season. He also happens to assign non-D1 colloege games in the Northwest (he has retired from that gig).
In PDX we also have an elected position of Treasurer. This is a paid position and is funded by charging schools a check writing fee. The schools love that as across Oregon IF school districts wrote checks for officials they would write 250,000 per year.
In PDX for a baseball season we have about $500,000 pass through our group.
The Commissioner gets input from umpires aboput the quailty of new (young guys) that he wants to move up the chain. He is the sole evaluator of our umpires at the varsity level.
We are paid about every two weeks and are receive a 1099 in January each tear.