Shift differential question

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I currently work for an employer that pays a weekend shift differential to day shift workers but not to night shift workers. (Night shift does get a "night" shift differential but nothing additional for working weekends) I am curious if this is common practice. :confused:

Specializes in Peds Medical Floor.

We get a shift differential on evening and night shift every day and days only gets it on the weekends.

Specializes in Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Nursing.

Here for the state of CT, you get 15% more for eves and nights and then an additional 15% for weekends on top of that. If you work OT on an off shift and weekends you multiply that 15% by 1.5.

Specializes in FNP.

I've been at places that did both. The last place only paid w/e diff if you worked EVERY w/e. Days or nights, didn't matter, but unless you worked a minimum of 24 hours from Fri-Sun a minimum of 50 weekends a year, you didn't get a w/e shift diff. I've never really worked w/e in the past 20 years, so I am not positive, but I think most of the other places I have worked did pay w/e shift diff in addition to night diff.

One place paid both weekend and evening, and I also got $5/hr for being in charge. Another place (these are the most recent that counted) paid 10-12% for nights AND weekends. Seven years ago, my base was 25.00/hr + 25% shift diff- panned out to 31.25/hr. That was with 17 years experience in a moderately high cost of living area (compared to a LOW cost of living in central TX where my base was much less, but I got the charge diff and w/e + night diffs- and I purposely worked every weekend).

nothing for weekends for anyone and we all work every other weekend. night shfit gets 50cents more an hour. what a joke...............

Specializes in Emergency Dept.

I work in a Northwest Missouri area hospital - we get $3/hr night differential; day shift and night shift get $2/hr weekend differential for Friday night through Monday morning.

Specializes in Psychiatry.

15% night shift differential, 10% weekend differential; also, 10% charge differential (1 nurse on nights here) ... Sunday's not considered a w/e, so I convinced my manager to give me Tue-Sat. Also, Clinical Ladder II is $1 more an hour, and ANCC certification is $3 more an hour. Adds up, even with a pathetic base salary.

Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
I currently work for an employer that pays a weekend shift differential to day shift workers but not to night shift workers. (Night shift does get a "night" shift differential but nothing additional for working weekends) I am curious if this is common practice. :confused:

I get $4 p/h for night and on Friday and Sat. night shifts an extra $2 p/h a night. So technically $6 p/h a night.

We only do 12 hr shifts for Nurses to my knowledge.

$4.65/ hr for nights and an additional $5/ hr for weekends. Our weekends are Sat and Sun, both shifts.

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