Association Fees
 

What is customary for annual fees paid to your umpire association? Our association has not charged fees since I joined in 2001. This year there are what seems to be reasonable fees ($50). I was just wondering how much other associations charge.

OH: $55 for state license, $15 local association fee (local fees vary).

LI, NY: $90 annual dues, no assigning fees. $115 for a varsity game ($96 JV). 2-man. 1.5 fee if you work alone (rare).

My organization in MO charges $30 for baseball, which includes spring and summer. We also pay 5% of our pay on games that are charged through the association (some summer is cash-at-plate; we don't pay the 5% then).

I need to move back home. Here in Houston dues are $75 and assigning fee of $3/game.

Game Fees are $50+mileage (.50/mile) for varsity or $45+mileage for jv. JV games are usually doubleheaders.

New Mexico fees
 

$50 to State association and $10 to to local group/association. Not too bad.

Association Fees
 

:cool:State dues, KY, $45.00 for first sport, +$25.00 for each additional sport. Local association fees, $45.00 per sport. Different assignors?
Some associations feel compelled to pay assignors additional $$$$, even though they receive their assigning pay through the state so to speak.

IHSA (IL) charges $45 for first sport, $15 each add'l.
Chicagoland association fees range from $50 to $25.

Assignors contract for their fees with the conferences serviced. Checks come from the schools (with few exceptions.)

Varsity baseball: $60 / 105 DH.
Fr, So, JV: (One man) $57 / 101.

The underclass fees have risen more than varsity rates in recent years, which is alright by me. An incentive for the newbies to stick around.

A 25% haircut for the 2nd game? Did Blago come up with that?.

MS - $35 to the state $30/$35 local

paid $65 for varsity plate - $60 for bases - $35 JV or JH games

South Carolina
 

We pay the state $35 (which includes NFHS registration), and $50 to the local association.

Pay is $65 for the plate, $60 for the bases, regardless of varsity or JV.

Think of it as $45 per game + $15 travel fee.

Ugh. Do people think of the $60 game fee as $45 + $15?

Here we get exactly double of the single game fee for a DH.

I have a personal rule that I won't work any youth ball around here where they pay the plate umpire more than the base umpire.

When someone calls and tells me they need me to work the plate, I'll specifically ask what the base umpire is paid and I've turned down games because of this.

I won't disagree with you in principle, because any ump worth his salt knows neither is more important than the other. However, as they say, that's just the way it is and always has been in these parts. Doesn't make it right, it just makes it so. The justification is "the plate ump has to wear all that gear."

So, I either A) accept the policy, 2) don't umpire HS ball here, or D) move somewhere else. I chose A, since my job requires me to live here and doesn't allow me the freedom to exclusively do college ball (all varsity games here are night games which works great for me).

Now, for any other ball I do, mainly Senior League and American Legion, the pay is the same for either ump.

It's consistent with how basketball DH's (for under levels) are paid -- the DH fee < 2*single fee.

If the new 1204 ever goes through, game fees will rise to $60/$55 plus the radius mileage plan. The money they make on LI is insane. The only sport you can work out here and make that much that I'm aware of is ice hockey.

Not here. A single FR game is $40 and 2 games pay $80. Those who like the bucks above everything else look for those games.

Not nearly as insane as the property taxes.

The new 1204 would be alright if I wanted to stay in town to do games, but anyone that has work HISD games knows the baseball is atrocious. For some schools you play catcher.

Are you doing baseball this year?

There are several reasons not to work HISD period. :)

Not this year, not for TASO anyways.

The blizzard from last week cost me some basketball games, I am in the baseball zone now. Well atleast until basketball aau tournaments.

$100 to NCAA for arbitersports
$75 to one college group
$10 to another college
$60 for High School football
$40 for High School basketball
$? for NCAA Yearly baseball meeting, flight, hotel, food, cabs, rental car (varies by year and location)

Best part:

It is all tax deductible and it is money well spent, because it allows me to do something that I love to do.

Exactly how it should be.

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If your association has NOT charged fees since 2001 who has paid for the cost of insurance and the books (Rule / case book)?

To answer your question we have 2 FEES.

1. To the HS association - $80.00
2. To the assignor for spring / summer / fall ball - $45.00

Also, Plate / base assignments are listed on our schedules. Some associations that I know of do not list the assignments and leave it up to the officials. FWIW I prefer the listing of assignments. I always carry my plate gear irregardless but it makes 'life easier' when you know your assignment.

Pete Booth

$40 to the State, and $70 to our local association. The association fee varies from group to group.