Pay

[Texas Aggie]

I've worked three different sports over 3 decades in Texas and it all works the same way: we fill out a form at the site and get paid by check from the school (or school district) 2-4 weeks later. Some districts pay faster than others. With a few exceptions, I've found private schools pay the quickest. I can probably count on 2 hands the number of times I've been paid in cash at the game, but it has happened, but I don't think I've ever had a check waiting for me. I think I've worked some tournament games where I got a check written to me after my games, but that may have been summer league stuff and not school.

I think I've only been stiffed twice: both by the same (former) Wilmer Hutchins school district (formerly) in the Dallas area. Corruption got the best of them a year or two ago. Several other districts, including Dallas, pay pretty late.

In my first year of basketball, the varsity assigner assigned a varsity official 3 games for the night: the frosh, JV, and Varsity game. Sometimes, it was only the JV and Varsity. Anyway, the official was responsible for getting a younger official to "jump" their FR/JV game, and they would pay the official in cash and take the school fee for the 3 games. I did that a lot. They eventually did away with that system, though from a non-financial standpoint, it makes a lot of sense.