The AMLU's Birmingham Folly

[BigUmp56]

Originally Posted by Justme

They are apprentices. They are in the minors learning their trade. To my understanding working in the minor leagues is not meant to be the end of a career path, it’s the beginning. Sometimes you have to make sacrifices to reach your goals.

IMHO your plan hints of Socialism.

Since you continue to say the AMLU umpires are mere apprentices let's discuss apprentice wages shall we. For example, the average scale of a first year apprentice in the building trades is 45% of journeyman wages. Each year as their hours increase in the trade their percentage goes up until it finally tops out at 90% of journeymen scale sometime during their last year of indenturement. All the while they share the same benefits as the journeymen. Same health care plan, same annuity contribution percentage, and same pension percentage.

So if we were to translate that into the percentage of the wages of the lowest level pay scale in MLB, it would come out to $40,500 in just salary alone for a first year umpire. A veteran of AAA waiting for his shot at the next level, should then be making $81,000. in just salary. I'm not saying that these numbers aren't way high for a MiLB umpire, because they are. But, if you insist on referring to them as apprentices you should do more research into what comparable apprentice wages are.


Tim.