Where I umpire, for Travel ball games it's $55 a game with two umpires, but for some dumb reason, it's $60 a game for one umpire. I told the guy who runs the organization it should be time and a half for one umpire ($82.50) but he just shrugged it off, because it would take money out of his pocket. Plus we have to pay 10% of every game to assigner. So I told him to never schedule me by myself, no need to run a game on my own for $5 more.I wish I knew what fair pay for an umpire was. I know what we pay at the HS level (the assigner I have set the price, but I use that price even for umpires I get on my own; it's higher than what pretty much everyone else pays), and if the game is not a miserable slog, I think it's decent but obviously not going to make anybody rich. But we pay more than umps make for travel. We pay more than our state association pays for state tournament games, I think.
Also curious what the umpires think pay should be if doing a game solo. We used solo umps for varsity baseball/softball this week and we always use two. We paid a little extra. Not sure what the standard on something like that is.
In high school, we get paid the following: Varsity-$130 two umpires, or $195 for one umpire (never happens, varsity will always have two umpires), JV-$111 for two umpires, $165.00 for one umpire, and middle school is $93.50 for two umpires, $140.25 for one. As you see, solo games we get time and a half. Plus we get $21 extra if a game starts later than 20 minutes from game time. All in all, I'm happy with the pay, sounds about right. Where TB games pay is lower, those games are usually 1:20-1:30 long, so it's not too bad....(Bonus for doing middle school games, they are 2 hours long, while Varsity and JV no time limit)
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