TotalSportal Staff

Handball is now among the rising sports in the World. In past few years European teams increased their interest in the game. EHF champions league one of the rising handball league where best team from Europe participate. Handball match official play key role to keep the game fair. But how much handball referees salaries per year and how much they make when they appear in the top competition such world handball championship.

How Many Officials Part of Handball Match?

There are four active match official during the game, the two official selected as match referees, one hold the job of score keeper and fourth is time-keeper. These referees are positioned diagonally on court to observe a side line each and, depending on who is attacking, one is called field referee and the other goal referee. Official during the game communicate through whistle, they have 18 hand signals. The referees have same kind options like football match officials, such as yellow and red card to consider fouls and or warn a player.

What Money Match Official Earn from International Competition?

The official details and contract terms of handball referees never revealed by the organization they are affiliated. However, per match salary, sponsorship bonus match official earn reported or estimated by the top money survey magazine.

Competition	Match Referees	Time Keeper	Score Keepers
World Men’s Handball Championship	$1.5k	$1.5k	$1.5k
European Handball Championship	$1.5k	$1.5k	$1.5k
African Handball Championship	$750	$750	$750
Pan American Men’s Handball Championship	$900	$900	$900
Asian Men’s Handball Championship	$500	$500	$500
Olympic Handball Event	$2k	$2k	$2k
Asian Games Handball Event	$750	$750	$750

Details how much handball referees earn in the international matches is equal for both men and women referees. The best referees from worldwide competition got selected for these major events. Olympic handball match officials earn most money

How Much a Professional Handball Referee Earn?

In 2018, for the first report revealed about how much handball referees earn, according to reported data, handball referee earn $1k per match in international event. When the handball referees selected for the top handball leagues around the world they used to earn $500 a match.

Ref’s Category	Per Match Fees	Tournament Payouts	Annual Earnings
Match Referees	$1.5k	$7k	$100k
Score Keeper	$1.5k	$7k	$100k
Time Keeper	$1.5k	$7k	$100k

What Handball Official Earns from Leagues?

The leagues have different system for the match official, all three categories referees take part in the handball season. Full-time, part-time and entry level, there is huge difference handball match officials salaries in the worldwide handball league. Some handball league organizations pay maximum $1k a match official, while in some countries handball referee earn $250 per match.

Country	Men (Per Match)	Women (Per Match)	Travel Costs
Denmark	€600	€600	€0.50
France	€600	€350	€0.50
Germany	€600	€250	€0.32
Spain	€440	€240	€0.22
Switzerland	€350	€202	€0.46
Norway	€340	€340	€0.43
Sweden	€338	€217	€0.38
Croatia	€265	€225	N/A
Slovenia	€230	€145	N/A
Macedonia	€100	€100	€0.50
Island	€100	€100	N/A
Turkey	€100	€100	€0.12
Poland	€100	€100	€0.15
Russia	€100	€100	N/A
Slovakia	€100	€100	€0.19
Finland	€100	€80	€0.43
Montenegro	€100	€70	€0.17
Portugal	€100	€50	€0.36
Cyprus	€80	€65	€0.40
Estonia	€62	€35	€0.20
Latvia	€60	€50	€0.17
England	€32	€32	€0.15
Ukraine	€28	€24	N/A
Azerbaijan	€20	€20	N/A
Armenia	€4	€4	N/A

European countries currently paying highest money to the match officials based on their contracts. The details were revealed on official platform however, if in future handball referees men or women salaries increased details provided here later.

Sponsorship Bonuses :

There are sponsorship trademark on the handball referee’s kits, for which they get bonus based on estimated survey and report released about handball referees earning in top leagues and competition, they are making $2.5k to $10k maximum from it.

Handball referees salaries were reported, in future if there will be hike more details will be added including per match fees and tournament remuneration.

The ring girls may not get much time on the screen during the press conference’s, weigh-ins, and round to round fights. But they make big money from these appearances, recently many sources claimed a ring girl maximum earn $5k an event. UFC Octagon well known as (UFC ring girls) earn more compare to other mma divas. UFC ring girls salaries reported here.

Ring Girls	Weekly PPV Card Fee’s	Main Event Fee’s	Annual Earnings
Arianny Celeste	$25k	$50k	$1m (reported)
Brittney Palmer	$20k	$50k	$500k (reported)
Camila Oliveira	$25k	$50k	$750k
Rachelle Leah	$20k	$50k	$500k
Chrissy Blair	$15k	$35k	$350k
Vanessa Hanson	$20k	$40k	$400k
Carly Baker	$15k	$35k	$350k

Ring girls who will still hold contract with UFC earn more than $300k based on their appearances in the main event and fight nights. A ring who got selected for UFC pay-per-view card (UFC 270, UFC 269) will make maximum $30k which include apparel bonus.

Arianny Celeste

PPV Fight Cards Fees: $50,000 (Guaranteed)
UFC Earnings : $500,000 (UFC Contract)
Sponsorship & Endorsements : $1 million
Contract : –

Camila Oliveira

PPV Fight Card Fees : $50,000 (guaranteed)
UFC Earnings : $500,000
Sponsorship & Endorsements : $500,000
Contract : –

Brittney Palmer

PPV Fight Card Fees : $30,000
UFC Earnings : $350,000
Sponsorship & Endorsements : $500,000
Contract : –

Carly Baker

PPV Fight Card Fees : $30,000
UFC Earnings : $300,000
Sponsorship & Endorsements : $250,000
Contract : –

Rachelle Leah

PPV Fight Card Fees : $30,000
UFC Earnings : $350,000
Sponsorship & Endorsements : $200,000
Contract : –

Vanessa Hanson

PPV Fight Card Fees : $20,000
UFC Earnings : $350,000
Sponsorship & Endorsements : $200,000
Contract : –

How UFC Octagon Girls Making More Money Than Some UFC Fighters?

Category	UFC Payouts	Social Media Earnings	Contract
Ring Girl	$700,000 (including sponsorships)	$1.5m	2025
Professional Fighter	$250k (average)	$400k	2025

The Glamour play huge role in the octagon girls earnings, they get huge attention of the audience during the fight, the more they come on screen time they more endorsements deals they get. Some of the ring girls not only get paid from their UFC contracts they make from their social media, they endorse different products there related health care, beauty, and apparels for which they get paid by the endorsement companies.

Sponsorship Payouts for UFC Octagon Girls:

Events	Earnings
Photoshoots	$50,000
Sponsorship Apparel	$20,000 (overall)
Magazine Cover	$100,000

They wear different outfits for each pay-per-view, they get paid for that the sponsorship bonus not higher compare to UFC fighters but maximum a ring girl from sponsorship apparels upto $3k per event.

How to become a Ring Girl for UFC Fight Cards?

If you are model and got strong healthy diet, you can be the next ring girl. There is fan expo take place and live voting for girls chosen to be the next octagon the two days time period set for it. The UFC judges and live online voting play key factor and once the voting time ended after two days The winning model will receive a UFC Octagon Girl contract and other sponsorship deals with Maximum, Monster Energy. The last details for the ring girls selection reported in 2009.

UFC Contract for Octagon Girls:

Contract Type New Entry 1 Year Professional 5 Years Deal The media attention is very important, to retain the contract at Octagon girls, Camila Oliveira become one of the most search ring girl of UFC in 2020 and 2021. The fan following of the Camila Oliveira improved 325k followers on Instagram after becoming the ring girl. Arianny Celeste still hold the most expensive contract as ring girl and have 3 million followers on Instagram.