Pay debate

[Rich]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Pay from schools are up to the individual schools or individual conferences. There is an organization of schools that acts like a cartel to keep fees similar across the area (mostly suburban schools), but otherwise schools can pay what they want. Usually this works at the conference level and if they agree on pay increases, they increase or not increase the pay.

Peace

We have no associations here that assign games, so it's a different setup here than in the OP's situation.

I am the commissioner of a conference with 20 basketball schools. The pay rate is set by the conference. If we don't pay enough, in theory, officials will go elsewhere.

I haven't seen rates increase meaningfully here in at least 5 years. I moved here about 12 years ago and rates were $50 to $55 then. Most places pay $60 now. Main difference is that quite a few of the conferences are paying for 3 officials now instead of 2. That's kept individual game fees from going up, IMO.