Split of Referee Fees

[gkeck]

What is the split of game fees that you are currently seeing? In the past, we have basically had a split of approximately 40/30/30. Suddenly, this weekend, the split announced by the assignor, not at a meeting, is EQUAL for all 3 officials. Not sure if this came from an out of touch board, or a wild hair to make the new grade 8 feel good. This particular referee association has very a LARGE number percentage of National and Grade 5 officials, and are suddenly being innundated by newly certified officials.

[Statesman]

The local leagues here do an equal split as well. When the fee payment is unequal, it puts more of a demand by referees to get CR instead of AR. Since you need two ARs for every CR, it left a lot of people unhappy when some weekends they were never CR and thus didn't get paid as much. For older refs this isn't a very big deal but it's a big concern when referring to youth and college-age referees.

[IASocFan]

Most of what I see is closer to 50/25/25. For high school it's a little higher for the AR's, but definitely more for the CR. The CR has great responsibility and requires more physical effort. I haven't heard too many complaints with our system. We have a wide variety of experience, and try to get the required experience for each assignment.

[Alberto]

Originally posted by IASocFan
Most of what I see is closer to 50/25/25. For high school it's a little higher for the AR's, but definitely more for the CR. The CR has great responsibility and requires more physical effort. I haven't heard too many complaints with our system. We have a wide variety of experience, and try to get the required experience for each assignment.

Yes, depending on the age group anywhere from $45 to $65 for centers, and $28-$35 for assistants.

[MPJ334]

i do'nt feel like putting it into %ages, but here's how we work. center gets age+2, AR gets age-2 (U13 C=15, AR=11). the only diff is U18...i do'nt know what center gets, AR gets 14

[kevbrunton]

Around here in Southwestern Michigan and in Indiana, here's the scales...

First of all, in High School, CR & AR's all get the same. The assignor doesn't assign who does the center vs. who are the AR's. The 3 officials at the game decide at game time. We decide based upon level of game, level of the 3 referees and who's worn out from doing too many games over the last few nights. For JV, most schools pay $35 each and for Varsity, most schools pay $45 -- at least that's what the association has set as the standard. We still have a few schools only paying $40 for varsity but we also have a few of the outlying schools paying $50 or even $55 per game regardless of whether it's JV or Varsity.

In the USSF games, the Center always makes more around here. For National League games, U17&U18 are 40/30/30. U15&U16 are 30/25/25. For local travel games, the price range is along the lines of:

U10-U12: $20/15/15
U13-U14: $25/20/20
U15-U16: $30/20/20
U17-U19: $40/25/25

[Scott Zawadzki]

In the league I do town youth matches, individual rates are set by each town. The average rates are as follows:

U12 CR $19.89/AR $12.81 44%/28%/28%

U14 CR $23.88/AR $14.54 45%/27.5%/27.5%

U16 CR $34.55/AR $18.00 49%/25.5%/25.5%

U19 CR $45.00/AR $19.80 53%/23.5%/23.5%

There is actually a pretty wide spread in the rates for same level games from town to town in this league:

U12 CR 16-25; AR 10-16

U14 CR 18-25; AR 10-18

U16 CR 30-40; AR 15-20

U19 CR 40-50; AR 15-23

Scott