I'm the secretary/treasurer for my Thursday nite league.  I get $50/team.  So my first year we had 18 teams, I got $900 at the end of the year, this past season we had a couple teams drop out, we had 14 teams so I got $700

I've paid around .50 to $1.00 on leagues. Some of the other prices your talking about is fk'n insane and unnecessary.

Some depends on what all the secretary duties are.

I'm in one league that you bowl team points (5 person teams) but also they track how many points you have won against the other teams individual bowlers (handicap). So you can win up to 20 points a night.

That is alot of work each week for the secretary to figure out each bowlers points won and track those standings.

I'm not sure but I believe that secretary gets .35 a night per bowler.

But if you think it is high then either run for secretary or try to change the rule.

Let me say this....GROW UP!!! That is too all the people complaining about the fees being too high. Second thing I will say is this: Take the job next year if you think this is an outrageous fee. As one poster said, anyone who has done it, has never complained again, computer or no computer.
 
I have always seen secretary fees to be between $0.50 and $0.75 per bowler per week. Bowl_Freak, your figures work out to be right around that figure depending on how many bowlers were on a team. Not outrageous at all. If you feel this is a little too high, you can bring it up in the league meeting next year. I bet you will get pushback though and as I said earlier, if you feel this is too much, take the job next year and see if it feels like it is too much for what you do and put up with.

I am getting into this discussion late.  Did the secretary also serve as treasurer?  If so, then what comes out to .71 per bowler per week is not out of line.  The leagues I bowl in range from .55 for secretary duties only to .70 for combined duties.

Is $4600 a lot for a 36tm league @ 36Weeks. Works up to almost $128 per week. Seems outrageous considering the house provides standing sheets and all.

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   I'm guessing you are just cheap. Bet you buy everything at the dollar store too, don't ya. It has been said many times in this post, the amount is consistent with what most others are seeing. I have lived and bowled in multiple states and have seen the Sec fees ( in response to Fluff,  I have never seen a Sec and a separate Treasurer, it is always been one job) range from $0.50 to $075 over the years....in line with what Bowl_Freak is seeing. Not once have I seen or heard anyone complain like you and a few others on here. No one cries and whines about it or feels like they are getting ripped off.....just you. I know a great way you can stop paying Sec fees.....stop bowling. The last thing this sport needs is a whiner like you....next thing you'll be complaining about the shots being too hard because you can't miss your mark by 5 boards on either side and still strike.

One word to stay to you Jorge and that is SUCKER.   That's about sums it up.   $5,000 to do paper work that I can do in less than an hour is absoultely positively the biggest rip off I've ever heard of in the this great game.

$5,000 of YOUR PRIZE FUND.  THAT'S RIGHT..YOUR MONEY goes to doing paper work.

Everything is computerized,  you input the scores into the league program.   There is nothing here that is overly difficult at all about doing this.   Other than the expenses of buying the program (which the league should do for the secretary if the secretary agrees on doing this for multiple years),  the small amount of time to input scores/paper work and the paper and ink costs, what exactly here is worth $5,000 in your opinion??

If you think that is totally acceptable, I got a bridge and some beach front property to sell you. 

The problem is idiotic people like you Jorge who think it's perfectly acceptable to rip off the bowlers and make money off of doing paper work.   Your the problem my friend.  Unfortunately these stupid people get in leagues where they can do this, and everybody just plays the sheep role.  Normally these people are all officers of the league, best buddies and if anyone protests to whats going on, they are told to leave.   Things just keep going the same way while the officers bowl for free, and skim off of the prize fund for their "services".   Most people are afraid of tipping over the apple cart, and just do what you tell them to do.   

Somebody should step up and say they will do the work for $2,000 and let's see how huffy and puffy the secretary gets over that one. 


The league officers should get to bowl for FREE the entire season,  that is their reward for being an officer and doing the paper work.  It should be free bowling and the cost of supplies and that is it.   They should not profit above and beyond that.   Your secretary gets $5,000 and then gets to also profit from the league prize fund.   Who the hell wouldn't want to do this, it's high way robbery at it's best.   

In this situation the secretary is getting to bowl for free (the $5,000 covers his bowling fees).   The remaining money minus expenses makes them without question a profit from their "services"  and they also get to profit from prize fund.    Win, Win, Win... what a scam.

How much are you ripping off your league for?...Shhh we will not tell anybody

If the league is paying $128 a night for the secretary fees,   at worst it would take somebody with very little computer know how 2 hours to in put the scores.   

So at $64 an hour to put scores into a computer is a good deal to everyone?