How to negotiate pay for California

Experience and degrees does not matter when doing a travel contract, the pay is going to be the same whether you have 20 years of experience or three. It does not make any difference to the facility.

What that recruiter is offering you is shameful, when you figure that you will be paying about $1800 to rent a car for the three month assignment.

Look for another company. And another recruiter. That last four hours is only $3 per hour extra and not time and a half. You can do much better than that. The agency will be making bundles from you.

You also do not want money in a completion bonus, it gets taxed at a much higher rate, so you see much less of it. You want it calculated into your pay from the start.