Besides Pay, What Do You Get?

[MN BB Ref]

Here in Twin Cities metro area we get $79 per varsity game. If we go outstate we negotiate our own rates and that may or may not include mileage. As for perks, we normally get water and/or gatorade at halftime. Some schools, especially the rural ones, treat us to hot dogs or popcorn at halftime as well. As for a changing room, we normally show up dressed for a game in the metro area but have a locker room when we do an outstate game. In a JV game you get paid $58 and you normally get no perks at all.

[JFlores]

Houston ISD is pretty bad, they have the same rep amongst all officials in every sports. You get paid from them anywhere from 2 weeks to never getting paid.
There the worse, I did a baseball game in March and did not get a check in the mail until the end of july. Good thing Im an engineer and make decent money but there are guys in our association who main source of income is officiating.

[OverAndBack]

Originally Posted by MN BB Ref

Here in Twin Cities metro area we get $79 per varsity game.

That seems like a lot. Is that one of the higher rates in the country? Do you have a lack of officials in MN?

In a JV game you get paid $58 and you normally get no perks at all.

$58 for a jayvee game might be the only perk I'd need.

All a matter of perspective, I guess. We get $42 ($35 + $7 mileage flat rate) for a sub-varsity game.

[Welpe]

That's doing better than here. $70 for a varsity game, $55 for JV and no travel.

[MN BB Ref]

Originally Posted by OverAndBack

That seems like a lot. Is that one of the higher rates in the country? Do you have a lack of officials in MN?

There doesn't seem to be a lack of officials, but to keep it in perspective, I was a varsity fill-in the first year I started working football and a varsity white hat with a full schedule by my 3rd year. The reason I think we get paid so well is that our various officiating associations work together to set a rate for the Twin Cities metro schools. A little cooperation seems to go a long way in this regard.

Originally Posted by OverAndBack

$58 for a jayvee game might be the only perk I'd need.

All a matter of perspective, I guess. We get $42 ($35 + $7 mileage flat rate) for a sub-varsity game.

As I'm sure most of you would agree, this is an avocation rather than a vocation. You can't be in this to have it be all about the money. The money is nice, and it pays for the uniforms and beer, but there is more to it than the money.

[OverAndBack]

Of course not. I can make a hell of a lot more with other avocations.

But we were talking about pay and perks. If you give me 25-30% more, I don't need as many perks. That's all I was saying.