Secretary & Treasurer fees

[foreverincamo]

Think our secretary gets $100 flat fee. Should be higher to put up with a bunch of old farts like us.

[JJKinGA]

have you ever tried to get the few dead beats in the league to keep up with the payments? To count verify and record the money is ~20 minuets of time each week and to get everything ready for payout is about 3 hours of work. Then there is the three to five bowlers that need something every week. If you have a good president it helps, but lots of time the secretary runs the league. Oh, and if the center does all that and is wrong, there is a lot of time that the Secretary spends getting the center to make it right. All that is worth something. I tend to think it is worth about $1 per team per week.

[JaxBowlingGuy]

One of my leagues is $0.75 per bowler. The old dude does nothing though. Doesn't even keep envelopes updated. At end of season doesn't even calculate what each bowler may owe. For a 38 team 5 person league, that is a lot of money to do basically just sit and collect envelopes each week. He doesn't even bowl.

On a 32 week league that's $4,560!!! Making $142.5 a night

[fortheloveofbowling]

On a 32 week league that's $4,560!!! Making $142.5 a night

Righteous bucks.

[collinwho]

Ours gets $30/team/season. On an 8 team league, that ends up at $240 a year. He probably deserves a bit more.

[NewToBowling]

On a 32 week league that's $4,560!!! Making $142.5 a night

Is this taxed. Does Uncle Sam have to know about this?

[bowl1820]

Is this taxed. Does Uncle Sam have to know about this?

Yes, the Secretary is supposed to declare their salary as income and pay taxes.


USBC League Operations Handbook:

Tax Information: Declare Income
Declare your salary as income on state and federal returns. The IRS considers you self-employed.

[JaxBowlingGuy]

Truth me told, I highly doubt very many are claiming it as income.

[NewToBowling]

Truth me told, I highly doubt very many are claiming it as income.

Yeah if there isn't much of a paper trail and verifiable income not sure many will go the extra mile to declare it. Unless they get a 1099 at end of year

[bowl1820]

When done properly, being a league secretary can be a lot work on a large league. Plus the costs for printing supplies, Software etc.

We had a man years back who was the secretary/treasurer for the big mens league here (32, 5 man teams). That was job on that league!

He was really good and efficient at it, He did everything the secretary was supposed to do. He even got personally bonded.

He'd make up envelopes for every team with all the paper work a team needed at the start of the season, end of season the same. standing sheets, individual player record sheets, prize money divided up and in envelopes for each team and player.

The secretary fee was well worth the work he put in. ( I don't remember the fee back then, something like .45¢ )

If anyone thinks being a league secretary is a easy job, try it sometime.