{"id":868811,"date":"2026-10-03T00:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868811\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T00:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:08:20","slug":"every-nfl-referees-full-time-job-including-financial-advisor-aerospace-software-engineer-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868811\/","title":{"rendered":"Every NFL Referee’s Full-Time Job, Including Financial Advisor, Aerospace Software Engineer and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since NFL referees are not full-time employees of the league, many of them work a regular job throughout the week to make most of their money before putting on the striped shirts for gamedays. <\/p>\n

Football Zebras<\/a> released the full list of NFL officials for the 2026 season, as well as a list of the day jobs most of them work before working games. <\/p>\n

Some of the various jobs include financial advisor, aerospace software engineer, school counselor, sports park director and food safety enforcement coordinator. <\/p>\n

There are a number of officials who work in the field of law, whether it’s as a lawyer, manager at a law firm or magistrate judge. <\/p>\n

Four of the 121 officials are former NFL players, including Nate Jones, Terry Killens, Mike Morton and Courtney Brown. Morton was a member of the 1999 St. Louis Rams team that won Super Bowl 34. <\/p>\n

Per ESPN’s Kevin Seifert<\/a>, the average pay for officials during the 2025 season was $350,000 under a “multipronged” pay structure that includes game fees, meeting fees, preparation fees, bonuses and other benefits. <\/p>\n

The NFL and NFL Referees Association agreed<\/a> to a new seven-year collective bargaining agreement in May that avoided a work stoppage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since NFL referees are not full-time employees of the league, many of them work a regular job throughout…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-868811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}