High School Game Fees by State?
 

I moved from Georgia to Florida and the fees were 33% less in Florida.

What does each state pay per official?

How many officials per game?

What does the eco make?

Thanks

Let me add...
Game fees for all GHSA football games shall be:
Regular season varsity (crew of 5 or 6) - $90.00 per on-on-field official.
Travel fees: 1 official $15, 2 officials $25, 3 officials $30 plus $5 / additional official for contests that require more than 3 contest officials.
Travel fees are on a per crew, per competition day basis. Travel fees must be used to compensate contest officials for travel-related expenses.
Playoff game (crew of 6) - $110.00 per on-field official. Travel fees do not apply to state tournament contests.
Auxiliary Official (ECO, chains) - one-half of an field official game fee.

In Florida, we get $61.00 pre official for a crew of 5 and 46 for a crew of 5 for jv/freshman. I believe ECO's get about 29 per game.

NC pays $70 for varsity and $60 for JV for 5 man crews.

An ECO is not required until the 2nd round of the playoffs.

Wyoming pays $55 for varsity regular season plus .55 per mile for the driver and .04 per mile for each rider. We will do 2 games every Friday, schools with no lights play in the afternoon and then a night game somewhere. Usually average about 300 miles or more every Friday and pray for no delays or bad weather in the afternoon games. Then for post season WY pays $65 plus mileage. 6-man football only uses 4 man crews.

We get from $55 to $65 for 5-man varsity. Some conferences pay travel, some don't.

I ref in the same state as RichMSN....$55 to $65 the norm, depending on Conference (5 man crew for varsity). JV & FR are usually $40 to $47.50, although that may go up now that some conferences are using 12 minute quarters for JV games (like WI Little Ten).

We did get $70 last week up in Green Bay....most I've ever been paid per game.

Most schools pay $60-$70 per person on a 5-man crew. Some crews will work 6 but the school will usually split the check 6 ways rather than 5 (if they paid $60, this crew would only get $50 per). No mileage is paid during the regular season but you can usually deduct it on your taxes. Playoffs pay $50 for the first 3 rounds plus 0.20 per mile one way for each official. And those amounts have stayed the same for the past 8 years!

Texas pays varsity crews (5 man crews) based on a percentage of the total gate proceeds:

GROSS GATE RECEIPTS FEES GROSS GATE RECEIPTS FEES
Up to $150 - $45 $4,000 to $5,000 - $80
$150 to $250 - $50 $5,000 to $7,500 - $85
$250 to $500 - $55 $7,500 to $10,000 - $90
$500 to $1,000 - $60 $10,000 to $12,500 - $95
$1,000 to $2,000 - $65 $12,500 to $15,000 - $100
$2,000 to $3,000 - $70 $15,00 to $17,500 - $115
$3,000 to $4,000 - $75 $17,500 to $20,500 - *$125
* for each additional $5,000 above $20,500 add $20 to fee.

Timers get 50% of whatever the crewmember game fee ends up being but never less than $35.

I have only been paid for 2 games so far this year. One had a crowd of about 2,500 and paid $113 (includes a standard $10 mileage fee) The other had a crowd of about 4,000 and paid $158 (including the standard $10 mileage fee).

I've always wondered if anyone in WI just took 6 or 7 to work on Friday nights. I have never heard of such a thing, but I've thought of it.

The Big 8 plays 12 minute quarter FRESHMAN games and pays $40. Miserable. Of course, we keep time on the field on some of these games, so....

Very nice. I'll be looking forward to that in...15-20 years. :D

From what I understand, Houston negotiated some flat fees for sub-varsity, TAPPs games, ECOs, etc. Don't know the exact details though.

In Louisiana it works like this, based on test scores.

70-79 $55
80-89 $65
90-100 $75

Referees get an additional $15 on top of their fee.

Because they have to wear an ugly white hat after Labor Day. :p

in Mass, 80 for varsity (5man crew). 55 for subvarsity (3man)...still can't get over 5man crews in north carolina subvarsity games. that's crazy. good for you guys.

best gig around here, payday-wise, is the New England Jr. League. 4-man crew. you do double-headers of kids in 5th-7th grade. and it's $140 cash per official

Maybe one like this?

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Downstate Illinois (you know, the area the areas south of Chicago). ;)

$50-75 for a single varsity game (5-man crews)
$80-120 for a double-header (Soph plays before Varsity, 5-man)
$40-60 for an underclassman game. (mostly 4-man crews)
$35-50 per game for multiple a peewee/Jr High games (3 to 5 man depending upon the league).

55-65 for varsity (5-man)
45-50 for JV and freshmen. (some schools are using 5 man most are 4)

We've also been going to some JV games and taking a 5th official for training purposes then splitting the $200 fee between five instead of 4.

I'm not really sure.

It's been that way since I have been officiating. I guess because the whitehat theoretically has more headaches.

It used to be $5 and it was raised to $15 a couple of years ago when we all got raises.

Downstate IL - anything south of I-80 and west of I-39. :)

Colorado:
$55 for varsity (5 crew)
$41 for sub-varsity (unfortunately both freshman and JV play 12 minute qrtrs unless we can talk them into 10 min..which doesn't happen very often). Our association works 5 man crew in sub varsity as well for training and allowing younger officials more games.

I'm for the $15 white hat bonus!!

LOL. Ain't this the truth!
:)

We had a game this year where one of our officials was accidentally listed as a security guard rather than an official. His check was $125 rather than $65. We told our referee that we would be missing a few games later in the season because we were going to try to get hired as security guards at this school.

(In New Orleans), we also get $5 for local travel and $1.10/mile (one-way) for non-local travel (1 vehicle).

For playoff games they add $10 to each official's pay.

Sub-varsity (3 or 4-man crew), we get $35.

Clock operators get $40.

In Tennessee, each of the five officials makes $85. The ECO gets $65. No travel dollars.

Middle school games pay $60. Youth games pay $35, though I don't know if that's true all across the state.

In South Central Nebraska, most schools pay by the crew...

Varsity games range from 325 to 400. Mostly 5 man crews a couple of 6s and even 1 or 2 4s. One crew I was on divided the usual 325 and paid 60 a person and then the driver got the extra. The crew I'm on now just divides it out evenly and we all take turns driving.

JV games 160-200. Mostly 4 man crews.

JH games 120-150. Mostly 3 man crews.

PW games 100-120. Usually 3 sometimes 2 or 4.

Tennessee pays well for football and lousy for every other sport.

When I worked there in 1994, I made as much for a varsity game then as I do now in WI. Their ECOs make as much as we make for working the game.

That is correct for subvarsity the breakdown is the following

TAPPS
12 min quarters $55 no mileage
10 min quaters $50 no mileage
8 min quarters $45 no mileage

Games
8 min quaters $30 two officials get mileage other gets $10
10 min quarters $40 two officials get mileage other gets $10
12 min quarters $45 two officials get mileage other gets $10

Yeah some of you guys are making bank in other states.

Upstate NY:

68.75 + .41/ mile Varsity 5-man crew

48.15 +.41/ mile JV 3-man crew

40 + $7 gas 4-man Youth usually 3 games a day ( 127 for the day)