I am acting as a Meet Director for the first time this fall, and working on all those little details I had never really thought about in detail before.
My question is, are meet officials customarily compensated? If so, how much? I am not talking about timers, or the person running the computer, or me. I am talking about the starter, the stroke judge, i.e. the folks who need to be certified by USA swimming as qualified to do their job. I had assumed that they were paid. Our club President does not believe we have paid them for past meets. We are both wondering what is customary.
If you have direct knowledge of what your team does or has done for a meet, please share. I appreciate your help.
Matt
In Pacific, I do not know of any case where deck officials have been paid for officiating a meet. We will reimburse officials for gas (we use the IRS non- profit rate) and for meets that are a distance from the officials residence, we pay for 1/2 of the hotel cost (subject to a maxium) at Pac Masters championships. There have been meets where the main meet officials were given a room at a local hotel.
For major meets, the deck officials are usually given a white polo shirt with the name of the on it.
hope this helps
michael
Our team, too, is seriously considering hosting a meet this winter. Looking at expenses, I learned that officials in our Washington, DC area are normally paid about $50 each for local meets, what I consider a small amount.
It seems fair to me, given the 5 hours they work. I would only ask members of our own team to volunteer that kind of time without being compensated in some manner.
