India’s Umpires to Receive Higher Match Fees Than Domestic Players
The top 20 umpires in India will earn more money for a day’s work than domestic cricketers according to a revised pay structure that was approved by the BCCI’s Committee of Administrators in April. The board’s cricket operations manager Saba Karim had recommended that their per-day match fees be increased from INR 20,000 to INR 40,000 for all matches apart from T20s. A domestic player receives INR 35,000 per day but, unlike match officials, they are also awarded a share of the BCCI’s profits.
A few months ago the BCCI had revised the match fee for the domestic players. Previously they received INR 10,000 per day but the CoA approved a hike to INR 35,000 per day.
The money paid to domestic players is in the form of two components: the match fee and a percentage of gross revenue from the media rights income the BCCI earns annually from the home season. The match fee is not standard and depends on the media rights income. The BCCI allots 13% of the media rights income to domestic players and junior cricketers. Domestic players get 10.40% and the rest goes to the junior cricketers.
A senior BCCI official indicated that the domestic players stand to earn more overall than match officials considering they also get a component of the gross revenue. “Last year (2016-17) the BCCI had allocated close to INR 120 crore from the gross revenue to all Indian players – both international and domestic – in all categories,” the official said. “Now this year (2017-18) if the gross revenue goes up their match fee will once again grow and that would easily work out to more than INR 35,000 per day.”
Per-Day Pay Hike For Matches Except T20s
Designation | Current salary | Previous salary (set in 2012) | Increase |
Top 20 umpires | 40,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 |
All other umpires | 30,000 | 15,000 | 15,000 |
Match referees | 30,000 | 15,000 | 15,000 |
Scorers | 10,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 |
Senior video analysts | 15,000 | 7,500 | 7,500 |
Assistant video analysts | 10,000 | 3,000 | 7,000 |
The pay structure for India’s selectors, however remains the same. “It was discussed,” a CoA paper said, “that increasing the remuneration for those who are sitting at home and not rendering any services on account of the directions issued by the Hon’ble Justice Lodha Committee in January 2017 is not appropriate. It was suggested that remuneration of at least those selectors who are continuing to render services may be increased and made effective from 1st October 2017.”
Per-Day Pay Hike For T20s
Designation | Current salary | Previous salary (set in 2012) | Increase |
Top 20 umpires | 20,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 |
All other umpires | 15,000 | 7,500 | 7,500 |
Match referees | 15,000 | 7,500 | 7,500 |
Scorers | 5,000 | 2,500 | 2,500 |
Senior video analysts | 7,500 | 3,750 | 3,750 |
Assistant video analysts | 5,000 | 1,500 | 3,500 |