Pay Rates for High School Baseball Umpires

[ASA/NYSSOBLUE]

Originally Posted by DG

What is a LATE FEE?

We get that for softball also in NY -

Late Fee- when the game starts over 30 min past scheduled time due to visiting team arriving late, etc...We are SUPPOSED to give the teams 15 min to warm up - so if a team arrives at 3:46 for a 4 pm game, we get the late fee!


Looking at some of those game fees, it is no wonder some areas are having trouble getting officials!

by the way in our area of NY (mid Hudson Valley)for softball we get -

$53 for what NY calls 'modified' - 7th and 8th grade

$62 for JV

$72 for varsity

during our last regional contract negotiations, the baseball umps, who have under Title IX always received the same fees as every other sports official, regardless of gender or sport, gummed up the works by filing for arbitration over wanting more!

[Durham]

$107 for a 7 inning HS game and an extra $30 if they start the game even 1 second late? Juco in CA is $115 and DI is $170-$225 for 9 inning games. I motion that who ever negotiates for you needs to go to work for every other organization in the country. From the sounds of it the MiLB guys would be making 6 figures this year if your guys worked for them.

[johnnyg08]

Garth...you know my point. Overall, it's much "easier" to work a game where both pitchers are throwing strikes, defenses are making plays, and hitters are swinging the bats. You can't disagree with that...that's my only point. There's nothing more mentally tough then working the dish for a game where both pitchers suck, hitters aren't swinging, and defenses are giving offenses 8outs an inning. that's my point.

[GarthB]

Originally Posted by johnnyg08

Garth...you know my point. Overall, it's much "easier" to work a game where both pitchers are throwing strikes, defenses are making plays, and hitters are swinging the bats. You can't disagree with that...that's my only point. There's nothing more mentally tough then working the dish for a game where both pitchers suck, hitters aren't swinging, and defenses are giving offenses 8outs an inning. that's my point.

No, I didn't know your point. I only knew what you wrote, which was far different from your current post.

In your original post on this subject you weren't comparing better players or better teams within the same level. You compared Varsity with U9 and stated the higher the "level" the easier they are to work.

This is simply not true. If it were, LLDan would be a MiLB umpire.

I do agree that for umpires trained for and experienced in any certain level, the higher quality players and teams, WITHIN that level, are far more enjoyable to work and create less stress. But if you put an umpire experienced only at the U9 level in a Varsity game, you'd have one hell of sh!t house.