Re: independent contractor forms for nurse Originally Posted by HarryHK 
Agencies do not charge 70 to 100 dollars an hour. The norm is more like 50 to 62 an hour depending on location and specialty. But why would you want to undercut your competition? Get what you are worth! I have always been the highest paid traveler at every hospital I go to. The reason is that I do not have the limitations of regular agencies, I can negotiate just for myself as I am not trying to compete with other agencies to provide many nurses. And they cannot obtain my services from any other agency. This allows me much more flexibility to structure my contract to meet the hospital needs.
If your skills are valuable and you are a consummate professional, you are a valuable commodity, not the warm body of the usual agency placement.
I hink what she means is that the agencies charge the hospitals $70- 100 an hour for our services. And I agree. Get what you are worth. Charge what the agencies charge.
Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN
Spokane, Washington
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