Underpaid or on par?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by A Pennsylvania Coach

Work solo on what should be a two-man game and you get a fee-and-a-half.

Ditto for Connecticut.

[Adam]

CO
Varsity 2: $55
Varsity 3: $47

JV 2: $41
JV 3: $35

Metro areas of Denver and Co. Springs (maybe others) pay a $2 travel stipend to each official per night. If we travel to a school outside the area, one official per crew gets mileage.

[NathanRT]

Dallas:

(for schools on the flat rate plan, some of our schools still pay UIL 1204)

MS:
$30/game, $10 Travel/Assignment

9th/JV:
$40/game, $10 Travel/Assignment

Varsity:
$55/game, $15 Travel/Assignment

Schools more than 25 miles from downtown pay an additional $10 travel surcharge (Varsity only).

Tournaments are the same, minus the travel.

//edited for clarity

[amusedofficial]

Cutting fees for doing more than one game, or for working three whistle as opposed to two, is something officials should stand united and reject out of hand.

You're paying for my training, my expertise, and my experience. It's the same in game two as in game one. It's the same if I have two partners or one.

Full fee for each, please. And fie on those who jump at the chance to give a discount for taking two games. I'm not mailing it in on game two and I don't expect the league or school to consider the second game worth anything but a full fee.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by amusedofficial

Cutting fees for doing more than one game, or for working three whistle as opposed to two, is something officials should stand united and reject out of hand.

You're paying for my training, my expertise, and my experience. It's the same in game two as in game one. It's the same if I have two partners or one.

Full fee for each, please. And fie on those who jump at the chance to give a discount for taking two games. I'm not mailing it in on game two and I don't expect the league or school to consider the second game worth anything but a full fee.

Some places have a set fee that sets the second game at a lower rate than the first.

Not here. If I work a JV/V DH I get paid the JV rate plus the V rate. In baseball, a DH pays twice a single game fee. As it should be. If mileage is included, pay it once - I'm only driving once.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by amusedofficial

Cutting fees for doing more than one game, or for working three whistle as opposed to two, is something officials should stand united and reject out of hand.

1. How do you propose we do this?
2. Are you suggesting that working 3 is just as difficult as 2? I'm not saying 2/3 is a fair sum, but I don't think 3/3 makes sense either. The fact is, if I'm working a game with 2 rather than 3, I think I should get paid more.

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

2. Are you suggesting that working 3 is just as difficult as 2? I'm not saying 2/3 is a fair sum, but I don't think 3/3 makes sense either. The fact is, if I'm working a game with 2 rather than 3, I think I should get paid more.

Does the game take less time when you work 3-person vs. 2-person? Are you gone from home less time? Does your uniform cost more when you work 2-person? If you don't get mileage (which many do not), do you drive less if it's a 3-person game, than if that same game is done 2-person? In the summer, do you train less in 3-person mechanics? Is the "gate" at the school less if the game is officiated with 3 officials? (Shall I go on?)

Just sayin'.

[fullor30]

I'm retitling thread

We are all under paid, by how much?