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In 2014-2015, the referees earn an average of $10,500 per game (regular season, pre-season and playoff), which works out to $180,000 per year. By 2019, the average NFL salary will rise to $205,000. This season, a rookie NFL referee's salary starts at $78,000. A 10 year veteran can make as much as $200,000 per season.
Referees and umpires get paid much differently depending on the sport. For the first example, let's take the most watched sport in the world: football (known to Americans as soccer). European soccer referees get paid, on average, about the equivalent of $120,000 a year (salary plus match fees).f course, this depends on the quality of the referee, but it is quite apparent that this is nothing compared to soccer players (about a two weeks salary in average). For the most watched sport in the United States, American football, referees get paid much higher.