game fees or pay

[Rick Vietti]

Discussing pay, as it relates to officiating is a healthy way for officials to 'gage' how their area is being compensated. Officiating is different than working for a company with a standard pay scale or for those who work on salary. At the work place where you interact with multiple level of employees daily, I agree that discussing your personal compensation is not right.

In general there is not an individual tier system for pay for the type of game you officiate. Officials work as independent contractors and as independent contractors we work on a 'piece' basis. We work a game (piece) we get paid for the game.

The information that is shared here is just that, information that can be taken to an association or state board or even a school and used for negotiation purposes. The bottom line is that fees around the country are negotiated and we as officials go after the amount that we can get from the area we live in.

I would love to see officiating.com keep track of game fees as it relates around the country and post that as a free area. If they would keep this info current, it would provide a service to officials for future negotiations.