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Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

PAID!?!?!? YOU CAN GET PAID!?!?!?

OK - for this "competitive" league, we get $30/game paid at the game, usually in cash. For my local kids rec league, I get $23 for 3rd thru 8th grade and $25 for HS. That's off a sliding scale based on number of seasons worked for that league - and that's the highest rate - and those games are running clock for 3rd & 4th grade, 6 minute quarters for 5th & 6th grade and 7 minute quarters for 7th grade thru HS. When I work at the YMCA in Beaverton, I get $20 regardless of level, so I work there only as a "last resort". "Stand alone" kids tournaments around here usually pay anywhere from $20 to $25 but usually entail running clock so the games are somewhat shorter.

I also used to work games for a huge Park & Rec district in the Beaverton area but that's been a few years and I don't know their current rates. I see refs from that association all the time and they tell me they'd like to have me back, but I just don't have the time.

I should mention that in the $30 league, if you work alone, you get only $35, which sucks. In my local kids rec league, you get 1 1/2 times your normal rate, which is fair. I really don't know what you get at the Y if you work alone since it's never happened to me.

Thanks Mark, I appreciate the long, detailed post. You must have taken typing lessons from Snaqwells. Someday I'm going to draw an elk tag in your state and if I'm near you, I would like to come work a game with you or at the very least heckle you from the crowd until you have me removed!