{"id":393436,"date":"2024-05-13T20:26:59","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T20:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=393436"},"modified":"2024-05-13T21:03:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T21:03:32","slug":"its-official-nevada-referees-to-get-a-pay-raise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=393436","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s official! Nevada referees to get a pay raise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for game officials in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rgj.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/2024\/05\/10\/prep-football-officials-set-to-receive-pay-raise-in-nevada-averting-possible-walkout\/73629585007\/\">Nevada<\/a> on Monday as they have a new contract &#8211; and a pay raise &#8211; starting with high school games this fall.<\/p>\n<p>The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.niaa.com\/rulesregspolicies\/agendas\/RRP_Agenda_5-14-24_FINAL.pdf\">NIAA<\/a>) has agreed to a new deal for game officials for this fall, with all officiants set to receive a pay raise. Reporting from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rgj.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/2024\/05\/10\/prep-football-officials-set-to-receive-pay-raise-in-nevada-averting-possible-walkout\/73629585007\/\">Reno Gazette Journal<\/a> says that football officials will see the biggest pay raise, although all referees will see some level of an increase.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rgj.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/2024\/05\/10\/prep-football-officials-set-to-receive-pay-raise-in-nevada-averting-possible-walkout\/73629585007\/\">Reno Gazette Journal<\/a>, officials will now be paid &#8220;$85 for varsity and $65 for JV games. Football officials will receive $95\/75.&#8221; This pay increase &#8220;brings officials pay in line with the average of what most states pay around the country.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement is pending the NIAA&#8217;s approval at their June board meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Compensation for those involved in high school sports has been a hot-button issue in recent months. In Florida for instance, <a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2024\/ron-desantis-favors-pay-raise-high-school-coaches\">Governor Ron DeSantis<\/a> got behind legislation to raise the salaries for high school coaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Nevada game officials are set for a pay increase.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393437,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393436\/revisions\/393437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}