Biggest HS check?

[Rich]

We're a patchwork quilt of conferences and schools when it comes to mileage reimbursements. I could work one night at a school 70 miles from the house with no mileage and work the next night at a school that's closer, but in a conference that pays.

Tonight I worked in a conference with no mileage cap. I knew the check would be fairly big, comparatively speaking, but it was a few cents short of $130. Game fee was $65. So the mileage was just short of the game fee amount.

Last year, I had an AD complain about this to me. Commissioner assigns a crew that's 100 miles away and then the school has to pay. I deflected the complaining, mainly because that's what it takes to get officials to be willing to drive so far. And it's not really my concern. He should complain to the right person.

Next two nights, no mileage at all.

Anyone else get a good mileage reimbursement in your games?

[RobbyinTN]

We don't get mileage here. We get $80 flat fee for a HS varsity game so after you take out mileage expense, etc. it isn't a lot but this is a hobby for me - and the only hobby I have ever had that actually made me a few $.

[biggravy]

We get zip. All ours are doubleheaders. GV/BV is 100 for 3 whistle, 115 for 2.

[JugglingReferee]

A LA near me has a combined population of about 600,000, stretching as far as 75 minute away. Anything in the 2 central cities has no mileage, but everything outside of that area does, in a per km model.

If one lives in a city where mileage is paid, you luck out.

A prolific referee once had a double-header in the city that is 75 minutes away. Because of their remote location, they actually played HS games in the morning in order to secure quality referees. Away he went for a double in the a.m. Game fees totaled $72, and mileage was around that too.

Coming back into town, he stopped in another city along the way and did a 2 more HS games in the afternoon, with full travel money, even though he was just on his way back home from the a.m. games. $72 and about $30. He then did a club game late afternoon (in the same city) but since this was a different user group, was also paid full travel money again. $35 and $30.

He then showed up at the bi-weekly meeting (about 10 minutes late) and was permitted to leave because he had the 2 men's league games that night at a HS near his home. No travel, since it was in the central city. $70 for those games.

In total, he made about $380 for one day's work, thanks to the mileage "double dipping".

[Rich]

Originally Posted by RobbyinTN

We don't get mileage here. We get $80 flat fee for a HS varsity game so after you take out mileage expense, etc. it isn't a lot but this is a hobby for me - and the only hobby I have ever had that actually made me a few $.

I thought TN played GV/BV DH. You get $80 for 1 game or 2?

[ref2coach]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

I thought TN played GV/BV DH. You get $80 for 1 game or 2?

You are correct, $80 is for a GV/BV double, 3 person crew. $50 for single Varsity 3 P.C.

Fee set by TSSAA board of control. Board is school administrators no representation for the referees.

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

I thought TN played GV/BV DH. You get $80 for 1 game or 2?

That was my question, too. If he gets $80 for a game, things have really improved in Tennessee!

[mj]

Over 100 mile trek tonight for $65 and no mileage. As a matter of fact we will drive past every other school in this conference on the way to the game. Oh well, it usually happens once a year.

[Kingsman1288]

Here it's a flat $70 game fee for V at all schools with no travel. There are two schools who are an exception though. Both are way outside the city, but the (relatively) closer one pays $13 for travel, and the other pays $20. However the travel only goes to one official, so we're strongly encouraged to carpool.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by mj

Over 100 mile trek tonight for $65 and no mileage. As a matter of fact we will drive past every other school in this conference on the way to the game. Oh well, it usually happens once a year.

I have games tonight and tomorrow at the same school involving the same two schools (boys tonight, girls tomorrow). No mileage, but it's paid 3-person, so I'm not complaining.

[RobbyinTN]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

That was my question, too. If he gets $80 for a game, things have really improved in Tennessee!

Sorry - I meant a DH. We always get a GV/BV.

[SAJ]

Here in NE some schools pay mileage, but not many. Highest check of the year is a GV/BV DH paying $133 each (3man). No mileage

[Rich]

Originally Posted by RobbyinTN

Sorry - I meant a DH. We always get a GV/BV.

Just curious, cause that's what we worked when I lived in TN 12-15 years ago. Back then we got $60 for a GV/BV DH.

Here the minimum pay for a single game is $50, 3-person. Most conferences pay $60 for a single and some pay $65. Travel, as I said in the OP, is a patchwork quilt of rules and policies set by the conferences.

[Freddy]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

Last year, I had an AD complain about this to me. Commissioner assigns a crew that's 100 miles away and then the school has to pay.

Do what JugglingReferee does and report the round trip distance you drive in km's. See what he says then.

[Smitty]

Earlier this season, I worked a single Varsity game ($55) at a rural school that is about 75 miles from home. Game check: $141. Best part - I received the check 3 days after the day of the game. I am still waiting on a check from a holiday tourney where I worked 3 games: $262. I'm getting quite a tour of North Texas this season...but it's paying for itself.