Football vs. baseball or other sports

[Mark Dexter]

Originally posted by sportswriter

As I recall, starting wage for an NFL referee is something like $60,000 US per year.

That's a damn fine annual income.

Not exactly.

1st year officials get under 1,500USD per game.
Given a 17 week season with 1 week off, it works out to less than 24,000USD - not bad, but nothing to make a living off of.