Travel and mileage

Some programmes reimburse officials for travel. Set a rate on the event and every roster row shows what that official's journey is worth, the Compensation card totals it across the season, and the figure carries into the completion dialog so it gets paid rather than remembered.

Setting the rate

The rate lives on the event alongside the pay policies. It is cents per mile — most programmes use the IRS figure, and 72.5 cents is common for the 2026–27 season. Round trip is the default, because nearly every programme reimburses the drive home too; an event that reimburses one way only says so explicitly.

A cap is optional. Some programmes stop at a fixed amount however far someone drove — $400 is a real example. When a cap bites, the badge says so on hover rather than quietly disagreeing with rate times miles. The cap trims the money, never the miles: what someone actually drove stays true on the record.

Where the distance comes from

• Driving distance between the official's address and the venue, where a routing lookup is available. This is the figure to trust.
• A distance recorded by hand, which is the only thing that works for an official who has no address on their profile.
• A straight-line estimate, when neither is available. It is labelled as an estimate on hover, and it runs short — measured against real payment records it is about 17% under, and never once landed within 5% of what was actually paid. Correct it before paying on it.

One drive, several matches

An official who works two matches on one day at one venue drove there once, and an official with a hotel room booked between two days stayed rather than driving home and back. In both cases the drive is shared across the matches it covers, and each match carries its share.

Consecutive days on their own are NOT one drive. Without somewhere to stay, an official went home Monday night and came back Tuesday morning — two real journeys they should be paid for. Lodging is what joins two dates, not the calendar.

• A room booked for the night in between merges those days into one drive.
• A room you denied does not — a denied request means they drove home.
• A request on an event with housing switched off does not either. Those requests can outlive the setting, and reading them as nights stayed would turn daily driving into one trip.
• Two matches on one day at one venue always share, however many events they belong to — a men's and a women's dual at the same school is one drive.

The share is split to the cent, so the per-match amounts always add back up to what the drive actually cost.

On the roster

Each accepted official's row shows what their travel for that match is worth. Hovering gives the working — "286 mi × $0.725/mi = $207.35" — plus where the distance came from and, when a drive is shared, how many matches it covers. Officials do not see each other's travel; it is an assignor-side figure.

The Compensation card totals it across the whole season: the amount, how many drives that is, and how many officials. It also says out loud how many figures are estimates and how many officials have no address on file — the total is short by whatever those would add, and a confident number that is not the whole bill helps nobody.

Getting it paid

When you mark a match completed, each official gets a miles field beside their fee, pre-filled with that match's share. Edit it freely — you know what was actually driven. The amount is computed at the event rate and folded into what the payor pays.