MLB umpires draw salaries ranging from a minimum of $87,000 to upwards of $250,000 (per the Biz of Baseball website). Minor league umpires, many whom have worked as much as many as 154 MLB games in one season, receive a pro-rata share of the minimum MLB salary. Minor league salaries are monthly, with a maximum of $3,500 per month.
It's a "unionized" job (the longer your tenure, the more you qualify for as a base salary with performance evaluation pay increases and special game participation - e.g., all-star game, play-offs and World Series - bonuses) and per their last negotiated contract, I believe that a "rookie" umpire makes the same as the lowest paid professional ballplayer on a 40-member MLB contract which is somewhere now in the range for $400-$500K/season. A friend of mine is a 36-year tenured MLB umpire who hired on in 1976 when he then made $30K/season.
Major League Baseball umpires are paid around $120,000 per year when they start. However, they can make more than $300,000 a year when they are more experienced.
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*That should be announced after the 2010 regular season ends in October.
Umpires do not decide or announce changes in the strike zone, that is determined by the MLB Rules Committee. The last such change by the committee was in 1996, when the lower limit of the strike zone was changed from the top of the knees to the bottom of the knees. Umpires simply call the strike zone on what THEY PERCEIVE as the size of the zone in the rules in effect at the time.
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The official rules state that before the game starts, it's the home team's manager's call to play the game or not. While the umpires make the decision to call a game in progress.
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There are 231 players, 8 umpires, 19 managers, and 31 pioneers and executives that have been elected to the Hall of Fame
Very rarely. And in the cases where it does, it is because the umpire goes to the other umpires on the field and asks them if they saw the play differently.