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By Cox News Service
Published April 13, 2005
Some athletes who are unable to play professional baseball become baseball umpires. An umpire is someone who enforces the rules of the game. Most professional umpires attend a professional umpire school. The schools are generally five weeks long. The top students are selected for an extra one week evaluation program conducted by the Professional Baseball Umpire Corp.
At the conclusion of the week, the elite students are hired and become minor league baseball umpires. New minor league umpires begin at lower league levels (Class A). Starting salaries range from $1,800 to $2,000 a month during the season. Umpires either advance through the system to Double A, then Triple A, or are released. There are no set number of years for advancement to the next level, however it could take 8-12 years before reaching Triple A. Once in Triple A, the major leagues may consider the prospect for a major league umpiring job. The best Triple A umpires may have the opportunity to advance to the Major League.
Most Major League umpires are assigned a worksheet, detailing where they will officiate during a certain time period: Which ballpark, which teams are playing, what time the games start, etc.
Umpires also receive time off for personal reasons, vacation and sick time. Umpires travel a great deal of the time, so a home life is basically after the season is over, just like the ballplayers.
The most an umpire can make in the minors, officiating AAA ball, is $3,400 a month. There are 229 umpires in the minor leagues, but only 68 in the majors. If an umpire snags a job in the big leagues, the salary would range from $90,000 to over $350,000, plus benefits and a pension.
Sources: baseballumpires.com, cnn.com
[Last modified April 13, 2005, 14:57:04]
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