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Originally Posted by Camron Rust
I think a gap is a good idea too, but the size of that gap above is more than I think is reasonable.
There are a lot of people that will never be Varsity capable officials. Our toughest set of games to cover is the Freshman/JV set due to the number of them and the time of day (most are at 5:45 with some at 4:00). We need numbers of officials just to get those covered. Lower pay just doesn't do it and it makes the assignors job very difficult.
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That isn't a problem due to the difference in pay between sub-varsity and varsity. What you have is a problem caused by the amount offered at the sub-varsity level. Apparently, people in your area feel it is too low.
The bottom number could be raised in order to attract more frosh & JV officials for afternoon games while at the same time maintaining the same gap with the varsity pay.
For example, if you currently have $40 (sub) & $70 (Varsity) changing to $50 & $80 (keeping a flat $30 gap) or $50 & $87.50 (keeping the 1.75 ratio) are both legitimate ways of addressing your issue. Of course, your area would need to convince the schools to spend more to fix the problem. Nothing demonstrates to schools more clearly that there is a lack of officials than not having any for some contests and informing the schools that they will have to provide their own personnel for those games.