This does not affect me. I don't officiate kids. I don't know who decides these sort of things. There is no officials organization or group that represents kids officials, although that might be something for them to consider putting together.
My understanding is kids officials get paid $125-$150 for a long days' work. That's at least $50-100 less than high school tournaments where you work a lot less hard in a lot better environment. My understanding is that some of these kids tournaments start early and run quite late. And these rates have been pretty stagnant for a while.
I heard the entry fees are about $12 now so if you do the math there is a pretty good income off these events. I don't know about all the expenses.
So how about it? Can we bump these guys up a bit?
Thanks
