High School Pay

[NYBLUE]

Here in NY, the individual school districts pay the officials by check through the mail. Most arrive within 2-3 weeks. Some arrive sooner. Private schools are more rapid with payment relative to the public districts. However, there are a few schools who have taken up to 8 weeks or more to send payments out.

Basically, officials complete their vouchers at the game site, the coach signs them at some point and hands them to the AD's office. The AD must sign the form and, in the case with most districts, the payment must be approved at a school board meeting which is convienently held once a month in most districts.

[BlitzkriegBob]

My umpire association pays us every two weeks throughout the season for games we have worked. They give us the option of asking to be paid on a different schedule, as long as it is not a shorter time period. At least one guy asks to be paid at the end of the year in a lump sum, which he uses for a vacation.

When I am doing a game a high school game that I have scheduled myself, every school I have worked at has given me a check in advance. When I am doing travel ball games during the summer, I have always been paid at the end of the game(s).

It's the same for me during the volleyball season. I schedule all my matches myself, and I always get a check before I even walk through the gym doors. I guess I'm pretty lucky!

[NM FP Ump]

Boy, I guess we have it good here in the Land of Enchantment. The schools pay the New Mexico Activities Association before the season even starts. The NMAA pays the respective official's associations. We hand in invoices for the games we officiate at our weekly Monday meetings, and get paid every two weeks. Some officials just keep their invoices until the end of the season and get one check after the season ends.

The larger public schools are the best at paying and the smaller schools have to be reminded, and reminded, and reminded. The missing paychecks around here are usually for pre-season scrimmage games. I don't know why the schools are delinquent when it comes to scrimmage games. I called 4 scrimmage games in April and was only paid for 2; oh well...

[Dakota]

Originally Posted by NM FP Ump

...I called 4 scrimmage games in April and was only paid for 2; oh well...

We don't get paid for scrimmages at all.

[Skahtboi]

Originally Posted by Dakota

We don't get paid for scrimmages at all.

Nor do we.

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by Dakota

We don't get paid for scrimmages at all.

You should.

[JefferMC]

Originally Posted by Dakota

We don't get paid for scrimmages at all.

In SC, the High School League forbids it:

B. In all inter-team scrimmages, the following regulations are to be observed.
...
2. No admission fee shall be charged or monetary collection taken. Exception:
charge for one inter-team scrimmage.
3. No official will be paid a fee for services. Expenses may be paid.

Locally, they use it for training and evaulating umpires.

[tayjaid]

Here In Michigan, the checks are given to us prior to the game. Usually the AD is there to pay us. Occasionally the coach has the check and just gives it to us when we are checking equipment.

[ASA/NYSSOBLUE]

Originally Posted by NYBLUE

Here in NY, the individual school districts pay the officials by check through the mail. Most arrive within 2-3 weeks. Some arrive sooner. Private schools are more rapid with payment relative to the public districts. However, there are a few schools who have taken up to 8 weeks or more to send payments out.

Basically, officials complete their vouchers at the game site, the coach signs them at some point and hands them to the AD's office. The AD must sign the form and, in the case with most districts, the payment must be approved at a school board meeting which is convienently held once a month in most districts.

Maybe in your section of New York, but here in the Hudson Valley, there is a school group called BOCES , which is for all the local schools pooling resources of tech training, supplies and other services...including athletics. They handle all the scheduling of games, and we submit to them (usually electronically) a voucher at the end of each month, with a check about two weeks or so later...

[NYBLUE]

Originally Posted by ASA/NYSSOBLUE

Maybe in your section of New York, but here in the Hudson Valley, there is a school group called BOCES , which is for all the local schools pooling resources of tech training, supplies and other services...including athletics. They handle all the scheduling of games, and we submit to them (usually electronically) a voucher at the end of each month, with a check about two weeks or so later...

I'm not surprised. In NY, I beleive each Section has its own contract/agreement with the sports offiicals. All the schools within that Section handle payments in the same manner. Other Sections may or may not do it differently.