A tale of two games

[CMHCoachNRef]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

Mark:

$32.50 per game for JrHS games??

Where do I sign up. The most we get in Ohio is $55 for a JrHS doubleheader.

MTD. Sr.

These seem like "Joe the Plumber" rates. In our part of Ohio we get anywhere from $33 to $40 per game (no mileage) for MS games. We seldom have to drive more than 10 - 15 miles each way for MS games. Of course, once the AAU/Ohio Youth Basketball Seasons start, the numbers drop to around $22 per game (so many officials, so few games). But then again, these parents are so much easier to deal with than their regular season counterparts.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by grunewar

Wow, hardly worth the drive! We get $38.70/MS or F/JV game* (no mileage).

* sometimes we'll even get a free gatorade or water too!

That's why I quit doing them after my first season in that association. Getting off of work two hours early to run 3 ms games on a tartan for peanuts? Priceless.

I figured as long as they had officials willing to work at that price, that's all they'd pay.

[fullor30]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

Mark:

$32.50 per game for JrHS games??

Where do I sign up. The most we get in Ohio is $55 for a JrHS doubleheader.

MTD. Sr.

You'll hate this Mark. I did 3 travel games last weekend for 150.

Average travel/feeder is 35 a game in my area.

[Chess Ref]

Originally Posted by CMHCoachNRef

- Of course, once the AAU/Ohio Youth Basketball Seasons start, the numbers drop to around $22 per game (so many officials, so few games).

FWIW in our area there's ball all year round, and lots of it. I could work 12 months a year. There are guys/gals that do 15-20 games a week all off season. These games pay about $25 an hour. Alot of them are running clockers.

[Mark Padgett]

Our local kids rec league, of which I am on the Board, pays $23 for 3-8 grade games (to officials with at least 4 years experience - first year starts at $17 per game, still not bad for a HS kid who needs some extra cash) and $25 for HS level rec games. If you work alone, you get 1 1/2 times the rate. The "competitive" 5-8 league I work pays $32.50 if you work a single game and $30 per game if you work two or more in a row. The "rip-off" is that if you work alone, you get only $35 per game regardless of how many in a row you work. That sucks. Their tournament games pay only $25 per game. The upside is that in that league, you get paid at the game, about half the time in cash, the other half by check. Our local rec league pays by check monthly and you have to submit a "time sheet".

[181174]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

Mark:

$32.50 per game for JrHS games??

Where do I sign up. The most we get in Ohio is $55 for a JrHS doubleheader.

MTD. Sr.

Here in Southern Indiana, we get 50 dollars total for 2 jr high games. Usually 7/8 grade but sometimes 7 A& B or 8 A& B. Numbers seemed to be down at some schools this season so a couple times B games were 2 quarters this year. 25 dollars a game isn't bad but that 30 something a game sounds much better. One school paid 55 for 2 middle school games last season bc of the price of gas but since gas was cheaper this season, so it was back down to 50. Most grade school games in the area are 45 dollars for 2 games. Kind of makes it a no brainer to go work a jv game for 45 or 50 dollars for one game than half to deal with MS coaches for the same pay for two games.

[OHBBREF]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

In this league - none. It's just one phone call to the assignor.

I hope you have unlimited minutes!

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

$32.50 per game for JrHS games. Where do I sign up.

Here in the Constitution State, we get $54.75 for every subvarsity game, junior varsity, freshman, and middle school. And, according to our contract with the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, our state high school sports governing body, we get an automatic raise every year equal to the average statewide salary increase negotiated by teachers. So if Connecticut teachers get a 3% salary increase, average from town to town, next year, then so do we. No more yearly negotiating with the CIAC over game fees. This saves a lot of time. I hope that the teachers in every town that are negotiating a new contract for next year get a big fat raise, except, of course, for my town, where I pay my property taxes, and no longer have kids in the local school system, they're all in graduate school. Not in my backyard.