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Umpires, Referees, and Other Sports Officials · SOC 27-2023

Umpires, Referees, and Other Sports Officials Salary in the St. Louis Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025St. Louis, MO-IL metro area

Figures describe the St. Louis, MO-IL metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not St. Louis city limits.

Median annual wage$34,360

BLS publishes only annual wages for this occupation (workers typically work fewer than 2,080 hours per year).

Umpires, Referees, and Other Sports Officials in the St. Louis, MO-IL metro area earned a median of $34,360 per year as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $29,690 at the 10th percentile to $54,500 at the 90th. BLS estimates 520 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Umpires, Referees, and Other Sports Officials in the St. Louis metro area earn more than $34,360 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $29,690 and $41,630.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$29,690$29,690$34,360$41,630$54,500

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • St. Louis metro areathis metro area
    $34,360
  • Missouristate (MO)
    $33,140
  • United Statesnational
    $40,710

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is +4% vs Missouri overall and −16% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$21,760$40,397$59,033$77,670Oklahoma City, OK — $21,760Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $26,400Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $27,710Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $27,850Ogden, UT — $28,180Raleigh-Cary, NC — $29,710Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $29,790Springfield, MO — $30,920Boise City, ID — $31,300Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $31,430Coeur d'Alene, ID — $32,280Charlottesville, VA — $33,340St. Louis, MO-IL — $34,360Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $34,370Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $34,680Colorado Springs, CO — $35,780Sioux Falls, SD-MN — $35,860Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $37,090Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $37,100Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $37,580Kansas City, MO-KS — $37,650Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $38,410Bend, OR — $38,730Stockton-Lodi, CA — $38,760Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $39,520Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $39,900Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $40,280Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $40,300Richmond, VA — $40,510Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $40,840Grand Junction, CO — $40,870Salinas, CA — $40,880Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $40,890Fort Wayne, IN — $41,010Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $41,020Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $41,600Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $42,350San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $42,640New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $43,040Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $43,570San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $44,200Rochester, MN — $44,230Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $44,890Lawrence, KS — $44,930Greeley, CO — $44,990Pittsburgh, PA — $45,300Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $46,080Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $46,500Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $46,850Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $47,540Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $49,410Boulder, CO — $49,460Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $50,250Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $51,230Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $51,600Akron, OH — $56,200San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $56,330Cleveland, OH — $57,140Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $57,190Columbus, OH — $58,240Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $62,400Fargo, ND-MN — $63,190Bismarck, ND — $63,920Baton Rouge, LA — $65,230Green Bay, WI — $77,670

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The St. Louis metro area has the 53rd-highest published median for this occupation among the 65 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Other metro areas in Missouri

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for umpires, referees, and other sports officials, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • St. Louis metro areathis page
    $34,360
  • Kansas City metro area
    $37,650
  • Springfield metro area
    $30,920

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

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About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.