Ours is $3.25 an hour. Med-surg, midwest, union hospital. I just found out the hospital 20 minutes away pays a percentage instead of a flat rate and it works out to almost double for someone at my step.
I've worked nights for 6 years and never once thought to compare. Just assumed everyone got about the same. Can people drop their night diff and whether it's flat or percentage? And your specialty if you don't mind. I need to know if I'm getting played or if I'm just mad about one outlier.
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Post replySame thing happened to me. Worked nights 8 years on a flat $3, then a traveler casually mentioned her staff job back home paid 15%. I went home and did the math on what I'd left on the table and had to sit in my car for a minute. Not getting played on purpose maybe, but nobody's going to volunteer it either.
Mine is $2. Two dollars. L&D, rural. I've been told it's competitive for the area, which is true, since the only other hospital in the area is also us.
Bring this to your rep now, not when the contract is up. We built a spreadsheet of every hospital within an hour, flat vs percentage, by step, and handed it to the bargaining committee. Went from $2.75 to 8% in the next contract. Data does a lot more than being mad in the break room.
Did you check if the other place has a cap on the percentage? Ours says 12% but it maxes out at $6/hr, which they conveniently leave out of the recruiting emails.
Percentage isn't automatically better. Our old contract was 10% and newer grads were making less than the flat rate people across town. It only wins once you're higher up the scale. Run your actual number before you go to war over it.
$4.50 flat, ICU, southeast, non-union. Weekend nights stack another $2 on top, which is the only reason I'm still on nights.