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They have awesome jobs, tbh..
They get paid very well IIRC..they get to watch NBA games first-hand, they get to involve themselves in the outcomes of games..they get to be on TV..
They get paid 6 figures IIRC..
I would love to be an NBA ref..
everyone yells at you. the players yell at you, the coaches yell at you, and the crowd yells at you. how much do they get paid?
They have awesome jobs, tbh..
They get paid very well IIRC..they get to watch NBA games first-hand, they get to involve themselves in the outcomes of games..they get to be on TV..
They get paid 6 figures IIRC..
I would love to be an NBA ref..
A quick search says they make anywhere from $100,000 to $300,000.
It would be cool and suck.
The traveling can get old fast. The pay is ty.
that is a lot. but the amount of abuse you have to take on the job is a lot. plus, you have the league watching over your shoulder for every bad call you make or miss. probably a stressful position as well.
It would definitely be stressful, you would obviously have to have thick skin and mental toughness..it would be a good job to have though, IMO..
the salaries
Hopefully your interest in the profession has more to do with the game than with the dough, nonetheless, a look at the pay scale shows some surprises.
Major League Baseball (MLB) pays umpires anywhere from $100,000 to $280,000 US for the 162-game season, in addition to the tidy sum of over $50,000 per season for expenses. This does not include the cost of first-class air travel, which is provided. The lucky ones that get to call the games in the postseason make somewhere in the ballpark of $20,000, excluding expenses.
National Basketball Association (NBA) referees earn anywhere from $90,000 to $225,000 for their hard work.
Incidentally, while the National Hockey League's (NHL) athletes make less than their brethren in football, basketball and baseball, no other officials in any of the four major sports leagues make more than those in the NHL, where starters get a $115,000 salary. After a 15-year career, an NHL referee may be looking at an annual pay upwards of $220,000.
The National Football League (NFL) pays referees anywhere from $25,000 to $70,000 per season. When you consider that the league plays 16 games and referees are considered part-time employees, you get a better sense of the disparity. But do not feel so bad for them, not only are there only 16 games in the schedule, they also get one-week intervals.
And where are the women in all of this? Referees in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) earn about $500 per game for a 32-game season, or a maximum of $16,000 annually.
http://www.askmen.com/sports/busines..._business.html
Cobbler, you think 90 000+$ is ty salary?..
You forgot the mob yells at you.
Well yeah. It's all relative. I'm at the end of my career and retiring. For someone starting out it's certainly a decent salary. I guess for being a ref it would be nice but at that level I would have thought they made more.
thats a career there, good job security also unless theres a lockout year...
I heard that a lot of them have separate high paying jobs, such as being a lawyer and stuff like that...
I would think so.
they get paid enough. well for some not enough, when some were selling off their plane tickets to for cheaper versions and pocketing the profits.
agree.
6 figures aint . They work a LOT, they gotta have trainings, and briefings, debriefings, etc. The travelll and the stress of the job must be terrible.
horrible job, but I guess it beats working at White Castle
more then you
oh, BTW to the OP, you must have watched POP go off on that poor ref
September 2009.
http://nba.fanhouse.com/2009/09/21/l...-nba-referees/Locked-Out Wife: Stern Doesn't Appreciate NBA Referees
By Tim Povtak
After failing to negotiate a new contract with the referees union, the NBA locked out its officials Friday and began making plans to start the season with a group of replacement referees.
The league has been asking for significant concessions from the union, most notably a reduction in pension benefits. The league has said that it wants the union to accept a deal that is more in line with the compensation awarded its office employees and administrative staff.
In responses to the league's demands, Julie Davis, the wife of veteran NBA official Marc Davis, wrote this letter to the National Basketball Referees Association executive board to provide a family's perspective.
FanHouse obtained a copy of the letter from the NBRA.
"These past few weeks have been a very trying time for our family, as I am sure they have been for the families for all of the 57 NBA referees. The stress of worrying about a lockout has been, at times, overwhelming. We have three small children to feed, clothe, and educate. Like most American families, we have a mortgage and bills to pay. These bills do not know what the word "lockout" means.
"What has been most disheartening, however, is accepting the fact that the sacrifices that all of our families make year in and year out appear to be meaningless to the NBA and David Stern. The 'offers' made by the NBA are insulting to our families.
"The NBA has repeatedly stated that their goal this year is to bring the referees compensation and benefits more in line with the rest of the NBA office employees and its administrative staff. But referees are not office and administrative staff. They do not wake up at home each morning and see their kids off to school before heading to a job from which they get to return home each night, if not for dinner, then to tuck their kids in and kiss them good night. They do not get to sleep in their own beds with their spouses by their sides.
"While I don't know for certain, I would guess that most of the NBA office employees do not miss their kid's school plays, parent-teacher conferences, sports practices and games, graduations, Christmas mornings, and other holidays. Their husbands and wives do not have to explain to their children each morning and night for 10 months of the year that daddy or mommy will not be coming home again today and won't be home again for the next ten days either. I can tell you from first-hand experience that three, four and five year olds do not get that concept very well. All of this is not to diminish the value of the NBA office and administrative staff. They obviously play a crucial role in the day-to-day workings of the League. But in reality the jobs of an office worker and an NBA referee are not the same. Comparing the two is not comparing apples to apples, but instead it is trying to make an apple an orange.
"By even making the comparison in the first place, David Stern runs the risk of changing a 'craft' into a job. Though the NBA office staff is some of the best in the world, you can find anyone to do a job, not everyone is a true craftsman. The men and women who work this job are true craftsmen. Though frequently criticized by fans and the media, they are the best in the world at what they do and I am proud to be the wife of one. They cannot be replaced by placing an ad in the classifieds and picking out a new hire from the folks who line up at the door. If they could, then perhaps the deal the NBA is offering makes sense.
"It does not, however, make sense given the sacrifices our families make every day. I would even go so far as to say that the sacrifice we make is larger than that that made of anyone in the NBA, including the players. Whatever the public perception may be, the referees do not have huge contracts, fly on private planes, or get to work half of their games at home. They are regular people, who trek around from city to city, airport to airport, arena to arena, and practice their craft to provide for their families.
"In any given season, we are lucky if my husband works three home games in a 75-game schedule. We are lucky if he is home more than five 24-hour periods a month. Who else on the NBA staff can say they do the same? Players can't. David Stern can't. Office staff can't, nor can anyone else who works for the NBA. Referees are unique in what they give to and what they give up for the game.
"And so what are all of these sacrifices for? Why are we missing holidays together and games and school events? So that the NBA can tell all of us that our sacrifice is meaningless and that it is worth no more to them than what the office worker, who jumps on and off the train, each day does? That seems ludicrous by any rational measure.
"It was not my dream to be an NBA referee. It was not our kid's dream to have a father who is one either. But it is a dream we are fully committed to supporting because it is my husband's dream. I take on single parenthood and being a 'referee widow' because I love my husband and believe in him and his dream. All that has happened with this contract just has me questioning whether the NBA realizes the sacrifices 57 families of their employees make to continue to put out the 'best product in the world.'"
what u mean not enough? thats more than avg salary earning working in a office pushin papers...
i considered anything over 80k is high salary
economy proof job
LOL sons yea the refs "only" make $300,000 a year JUST like the president of the U.S. "only" makes $400,000 a year .... everyone knows there is all kinds of under the table money involved. especially for the good refs who do as they are told by Stern.
Some even get to bet on the games they call...
Great money and you get some pretty good exercise as well. But definitely far from a dream job when it comes to scheduling/holidays and stress. It would also suck to break up brawls between pro athletes...some crowds might throw some as well, etc. Well worth it for six figures though.
It would be cool to do a ty job and get paid 300k for it.
There was an article in the San Antonio paper last week about new hire, young football coaches at UTexas getting $600K.
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