Playoff fees in SC

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Originally Posted by SC Official

In South Carolina, an official gets $62 plus travel for one playoff game and $85 plus travel for a playoff doubleheader. The higher seeded team hosts the first three rounds. When the initial brackets come out, girls and boys are not scheduled to play on the same night. However, what happens sometimes is a school that's hosting a girls and boys playoff game will ask the SCHSL to move one of the games such that the girls and boys play back-to-back on the same night. As a result, the SCHSL sends only one crew of officials to the sight, and the officials receive the fee for a doubleheader rather than two separate games, which obviously is less.

Fair or foul?

In Michigan we generally do pay less for a second game of a double header in most sports for regular season play. We generally don't have the same crew work both games of a playoff round (we go districts, regionals, QF, SF, Final).

The districts often have a night or two of two games per night. In basketball it is generally a different crew for each night. Volleyball it is the same crew. For the regional semi-finals it is the same as two game night districts. Each crew works one game. The rest of the bracket is single games, so each crew only works one game. The only exception is the state finals, which have all 4 classes on the same day, but each crew works only 1 game.

For post-season play the MHSAA does not pay mileage until you reach a certain distance from home. After that distance they do pay a mileage rate.

The rates for post-season are similar, if not less than what schools pay during the regular season.

Michigan (for the regular season) is different than many other states. In many states, there is a set fee paid by each school to officials all across the state. In Michigan it differs based on the conference, school, or association agreed rate.

For example, in swimming and diving, I work two difference conferences. One pays $55 for a dual meet, the other pays $50, and neither pay mileage. A third conference pays $45, but they also pay extra for exhibition heats, which is something my conferences don't pay. None of them pay mileage. The MHSAA sets the fees for post-season contests across the state.