Many people are surprised to learn there is a match fee for ref at local league level. In my regular league it's £30 per game, which I think is fairly typical (youth 11-a-side is more likely to be £20 per game). So obviously I'm not doing it for the money!
In professional football, refs in the Football League get £250 per game plus expenses but would not be full-time. The assistant referees running the line get less, despite being closer to the abusive crowd.
The "Select Group of professional referees" in the premiership (guys like Howard Webb and Phil Dowd) get a basic salary of £60,000 per year with extra for European games. They will do about 25 games per season so that's about £2,400 a game.
Compare that to the players. In the premiership average salary is close to £100,000 per month of playing time so let's say they play six games a month, that's about £17,000 a game (but they get paid whether they play or not). Most of the highest profile guys will be making money on top of that for endorsements and so on, not to mention the money they make when they change clubs - especially when they go on a Bosman and the new club doesn't have to pay the old club a penny.
And then there's "Beckham Inc", which is in another league altogether.
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