Note-taker (karate) - Salary and Career
Sports referees

Note-taker (karate) - Career description, activities, functions and salary

They ensure compliance with the regulation in sports competitions, controlling their progress, recording infractions, applying penalties and making the necessary markings to ensure the processing of these events within the rules established by Organs sports bodies.

How much does an Note-taker (karate) earn

A Note-taker (karate) earns between $1.235 and $2.459 per month, with an average monthly salary of $1.624 and a median salary of $1.763 according to an Averwage.com salary survey along with to data of professionals hired and fired by companies in the labor market.

Our research is based on the salaries of 6 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).


Salary ranges for the Note-taker (karate)

Monthly Salary Annual Salary Salary Per Week Hourly Salary
Average wage 1.624 19.490 406 11
1º Quartile 1.235 14.820 309 8
Median Salary 1.763 21.150 441 11
3º Quartile 1.875 22.500 469 12
Higher Salary 2.459 29.503 615 16


Professional job categories

  • Middle level technicians
    • medium-level technicians in cultural, communications and sports services
      • athletes, sportsmen
        • sports referees

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Main workplaces

Sports referees professionals work in different sports, working in competitions, tournaments, games and official events, in sports, recreational or associative entities, in education, etc. The vast majority of professionals are self-employed and can accumulate the role of sports referee with another occupation in the area, such as athlete, teacher, sports micro-entrepreneur, etc. Their work usually takes place on irregular dates and times, following the calendar of sporting events to which they are linked. In some activities, some professionals may work in adverse weather conditions, in uncomfortable positions for long periods, under psychological pressure.


What does it take to work in the field of Sports referees

Family occupations require different levels of minimum formal schooling, such as elementary school and high school. Vocational training can take place through basic qualification courses, lasting around two hundred hours. The desirable previous professional experience of the holders varies between more than one and five years, depending on the occupation.


Functions and activities of Note-taker (karate)

Sports referees must:

  • manage the sporting competition;
  • managing the sports competition;
  • observe posture consistent with sport referee activity;
  • participate in arbitration rules awareness and update activities;
  • demonstrate personal skills;
  • complementary arbitration;
  • maintain physical and psychological conditioning;
  • enforce rules and regulations;
  • communicate;
  • observe posture consistent with sports referee activity;
  • participate in knowledge activities and arbitration rules update;
  • observe posture consistent with sport referee activity;
  • participate in arbitration rules knowledge and update activities;
  • observe posture consonant with sport referee activity;
  • observe posture befitting sport referee activity;
  • manage the sports competition;
  • complement the arbitration;
  • observe posture consistent with the activity of a sports referee;
  • complementary referee;
  • complement to arbitration;
  • applying rules and regulations;
  • examine the general infrastructure of the event;
  • participate in knowledge activities and update of arbitration rules;
  • fulfill your entity's requests;
  • observe posture consistent with sports referee activity;

  • Activities

    • standardizing the application of rules for the competition;
    • study current rules and regulations;
    • prepare yourself physically and psychologically to act in the season;
    • preserving consistency during competition;
    • respect athletes;
    • demonstrate ability to work in a team;
    • participate in category promotion courses;
    • periodically demonstrate your physical and mental capacity before competition;
    • register athletes participating in the competition;
    • check the documentation of the athletes and the coaching staff;
    • exclude support group components during the competition;
    • act whenever external interference affects the smooth running of the competition;
    • develop peripheral vision;
    • check the conditions of safety equipment;
    • practice the sport;
    • demonstrate objectivity;
    • verbally warn athletes of possible penalties;
    • conduct impartially during competition;
    • follow the calls of your entities;
    • authorize athletes to participate;
    • establish communication with the security team;
    • fulfill the calls of your entities;
    • establish communication with the medical team;
    • register with your entity;
    • fill in the competition summary;
    • participate in technical meetings;
    • participate in courses for category promotion;
    • show your physical and mental capacity during competition;
    • request to prevent unauthorized persons from accessing the competition area;
    • operate the electronic or manual scoreboard;
    • judging the actions of competitors;
    • demonstrate emotional self-control;
    • participate in arbitration courses;
    • record the score;
    • demonstrate authority;
    • delimit the area of operation of the press;
    • demonstrate knowledge about the fundamentals of the sport;
    • control the substitution of athletes;
    • check the policing conditions;
    • punishing athletes through signs and verbalization;
    • report irregularities in the facilities/equipment;
    • call or introduce competitors;
    • prepare yourself physically and psychologically to perform in the season;
    • appear in uniform to competition venues;
    • visually inform the competition addition period;
    • record unforeseen occurrences during the competition;
    • examine the competition venue;
    • appear in uniform at competition venues;
    • fail the competition venue;
    • demonstrate common sense;
    • preserve discipline during competition;
    • verbally inform the final time of the competition;
    • acting whenever external interference affects the smooth running of the competition;
    • making decisions during competition;
    • inform availability;
    • perform technical gestures/signals;
    • demonstrate ability to concentrate;
    • prevent the physical integrity of athletes;
    • become aware of responsibilities;
    • inform the impossibility of meeting the scale;
    • conduct yourself impartially during competition;
    • preserving consistency throughout the competition;
    • provide a medical certificate for training in the exercise of your activity (ad);
    • avoid your performance in competitions involving clubs/athletes with who maintain ties;
    • demonstrate respect for hierarchy;
    • check the presence of medical assistance;
    • authorize the participation of athletes;
    • demonstrate suitability;
    • inform availability;
    • perform theoretical and practical arbitration tests ;
    • operate electronic or manual scoreboard;
    • remove periodic schedule;
    • recognize the functions of the refereeing team members;
    • master the rules and regulations in force;
    • authorize support group presence;
    • verbally score athletes on possible valid techniques;
    • record penalties;
    • standardize the application of rules for the competition;
    • deciding on cases not specified in the rules/regulations;
    • watch the performance of other arbitrators for improvement;
    • acknowledge the presence of the support group;
    • identify the team captain;
    • confirm participation in events/competition;
    • request a schedule exemption;
    • remove periodic scale;
    • attend punctually to competition venues;
    • use sound equipment;
    • participate in internships;
    • check the conditions of the competition equipment;
    • acting in long journey events;
    • respect the performance of the refereeing team members;
    • control the timing;
    • record substitutions;
    • demonstrate accumulated experiences as a competitor in the sport;
    • decide on cases not specified in the rules/regulations;
    • work in adverse weather conditions;
    • making decisions during competition;
    • plan the way the referee team works;
    • check the facilities;
    • behave ethically when active or not in sporting events;
    • interpreting rules and regulations;
    • respect event participants;
    • communicate with coaches and captains about the progress of the competition;
    • confirm participation in events/competition;
    • supervise the technical procedures of each modality;
    • standardize the application of rules for competition;
    • approve the competition venue;
    • recycle yourself;
    • recycle;
    • demonstrate self-criticism;
    • request the removal of unauthorized persons from the competition area;
    • preserving discipline during competition;
    • conduct with fairness during competition;
    • register medical care;
    • plan the way the refereeing team works;
    • establish communication with the support team;
    • call or present the contestants;
    • use visual equipment;
    • request the regularization of equipment;
    • use full physical and mental conditions in the exercise of the activity;
    • maintain your physical and mental capacity after competition;
    • send reports to your entities;
    • register the athletes participating in the competition;
    • demonstrate personality;
    • guide the support group action procedure;


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