NBA is a top basketball league, naturally all systems are perfect, for example, we know the authority of referees, we also need to understand
Let’s look at the referee’s salary. The referee has the supreme power. No one dares to challenge the authority of the referee. This is also the operating basis of the NBA as a top league.
So the power of referees is high, so what about their salaries?
There must be not only players and coaches on a court, but also referees who judge the game fair. All of these are indispensable. All changes in the court are because referees are different from player coaches. Coaches and players and team owners
Salary, while referees are wages paid by the league, just like laborers signed by the league.
The referee’s salary is graded and annual salary.
If you want to play NBA games, you must have been a referee for ten years. This is a mandatory requirement for entry, and you can only play the regular season.
Just as a time trial and screening will make many people give up.
The referee’s job may seem simple, but it’s not so easy to do. There are more than 1,000 games in the NBA every year.
There are only more than 60 referees in the entire NBA. There are 3 referees in a game, which means that they are working almost all season.
Referee assessment, so that referees can improve.
The mental pressure of the referee is also very high. In this kind of game that the whole world pays attention to, if you accidentally make a mistake, you will be reviled by fans all over the world, and even scolded by the players, so it is inevitable under such mental pressure
Sometimes things go wrong.
There are even injuries sometimes, and sometimes the players can’t help making referees by making fast offensive and defensive transitions. The players are almost all tall and strong.
During the fast break, he accidentally pushed down the sideline referee, and the referee fell to the ground. In the end, he had to withdraw from the game and let the substitute referee come on.
However, although the work of the referee is a bit tiring, the salary is not as high as that of the players and coaches.
But it is still possible for ordinary people. Their salaries are also divided into grades. The junior ones have an annual salary of 100,000 US dollars, just playing referees in the regular season. The intermediate ones have an annual salary of about 200,000-300,000 US dollars.
The above are qualified to play the playoffs, and there are veteran referees like Crawford who retired in 2016 with an annual salary of 500,000. In the NBA, the older the referee, the higher the salary. In developed countries like the United States, the annual salary reaches 500,000.
This is also very high, the average annual salary in the United States is 50,000 US dollars.
And the NBA works for half a year every year, even the most junior salary is not low.