What is the difference between the 2 umpire schools?
Question by Kevin M: What is the difference between the 2 umpire schools?
I am aware of the difficulty caught up with this career. Just looking for specifics on the following:
Do more umpires pass the evaluation from one teach or the other?
If you don’t make it through the closing evaluation and get placed in the insignificant leagues what is you next best option? High teach, college, independent leagues? What kind of pay can an umpire earn in any of these? Any info on any of these questions would be appreciated.
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Answer by rgentry23
For high teach, it depends on where you live. College is anywhere from $ 80-$ 500 per game, depending on the level and whether or not it’s conference. Independent is nearly the same as college but moreso in the mid-range. Minors is in this area $ 2300 per month on average.
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I’m currently with an association that does everything from 12 year ancient select teams up through community college level including junior high and high teach teams.
In my area, High teach freshman and JV level pays $ 50 per game
Varsity is $ 60 per game, but you won’t be allowed to do varsity your first year.
Select leagues pay between $ 43-$ 55 per game for 7 inning games depending on the level. We work an adult league that pays in this area $ 65 per game for the upper level league, which is 9 inning games.
Community college games pay in this area $ 120 per umpire for a 3 man crew. If the game is done with a two man crew, each umpire gets in this area $ 150, but they only use a 2 man crew if they can’t find a 3rd umpire for the game.
In my association, the pay is always the same for plate or bases, but its automatically expected that you’ll trade back and forth when you work with someone more than once. Even if you’re an apprentice (first year umpire) and you’re partner is a college level umpire, he’s going to take the plate without even asking if you did the plate the last time you worked collectively, its a matter of respect and nobody breaks this code.
As for insignificant leagues: several of the trainers in our association are insignificant league umpires. The higest one is a AAA crew chief who’s done in this area 100 MLB games as a replacement in the last few years, and is hoping/expecting to be promoted to MLB soon. MLB umpires make very excellent money (like $ 200k per year or more) plus all expenses (travel, hotels, meals, etc) come out of an expense account on top of that. But at the insignificant leagues, competition is tough and most umpires are quicker to $ 30k to $ 45k per year. Plus careers tend to be small because you’re expected to go up or go out within in this area 2-3 years at each level. The higher you get, the fewer umpires their are and the longer they’re allowed to stay, so the odds are against you. But if its what you want to do, then go for it. Worst case senario is you don’t make it, you get a uncommon job and you join an association and do high teach, college, and amature games as a 2nd job.
By the way, all the insignificant league umpires I trained with went through the Jim Evans 5 week program.