Travel jobs offered...low pay

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Folks, I just received a list of ER openings and the hourly wage was between $29/hr to 32/hr. Also only offered $500 relocation money. This is pretty close to the top of a Staff RN wage scale at a decent hospital anywhere. Is this the sign of the times, or is this company trying to keep the pay low, hoping a desparate traveler will take them up?. I just can't see traveling at that low of pay. Might as well try for permanent job and take the 4-6 week standard orientation. Any thoughts?

I've heard of some travel nursing jobs offering $10,000.00 sign on bonus. It guess it would just depend on the agency and relocation. I know I wouldn't mind $10,000.00:yeah: Also I heard just for LPN's they would get $42 per hour. :up:

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I've heard of some travel nursing jobs offering $10,000.00 sign on bonus. It guess it would just depend on the agency and relocation. I know I wouldn't mind $10,000.00:yeah: Also I heard just for LPN's they would get $42 per hour. :up:

Which agency hires LPNs at that rate? I will be going to LPN school starting August and was hoping to get hired by a travel agency as an LPN.

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Which agency hires LPNs at that rate? I will be going to LPN school starting August and was hoping to get hired by a travel agency as an LPN.

Go to job search engines. Indeed, yahoo, places like that. favorite staffing pays good! But I also have heard that you have to work a year or two before going to an agency...??? Hope all works for you!:up:

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Go to job search engines. Indeed, yahoo, places like that. favorite staffing pays good! But I also have heard that you have to work a year or two before going to an agency...??? Hope all works for you!:up:

I know where to look; I just figured you knew the company name since you said you found one that pays $42 an hour. Yahoo jobs really isn't a good place to look for a good job btw, and a lot of the companies advertised on there sell your personal information.

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I've heard of some travel nursing jobs offering $10,000.00 sign on bonus. It guess it would just depend on the agency and relocation. I know I wouldn't mind $10,000.00:yeah: Also I heard just for LPN's they would get $42 per hour. :up:

From the real world of travel nursing - this is the nursing equivalent of "urban myth". I don't know of any agencies at this time (and this economy) paying big "sign on" bonuses. You don't get relocation bonuses as you are not relocating - you are a temp - you may get travel expense.

Agencies are not paying LPNs 42/hr. Few are now paying that for RNs and that figure generally means they are including your housing costs, etc. into the quoted figure. The highest paying jobs right now are either working as a scab (strike breaking) or in places that are so bad they can't even keep nurses for 13 weeks any other way.

I just get tired of seeing poor innocent nursing student being told this stuff!

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I know where to look; I just figured you knew the company name since you said you found one that pays $42 an hour. Yahoo jobs really isn't a good place to look for a good job btw, and a lot of the companies advertised on there sell your personal information.

I have got a job and a wireless phone company at yahoo before. FAVORITE STAFFING, Fidelity pays up to $42 dollars per hour. Some of them won't post it. If you apply to a staffing agency until you pass test like I did through Fidel. they will not tell you salary. However a nurse that was working through this one call A plus she was an LPN making $42 dollars per hour.

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I would have to say that $42 an hour is a tad of an improvement over the $15 or $16 an hour that agencies tend to offer LPN/LVNs. When it gets right down to the nitty gritty, most employers will offer as little as they can get people to work for. There is always one person who will work for peanuts.

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Well, all the hoop jumping, ( and I'm still jumping), I interviewed with 3 hospitals and got 1 offer. Heading to Maine in 10 days for 13 weeks. It's $44/hr but that includes the housing stipend, travel expense, rental car. I put an ad on Craig's list for the town I will be working at and got several responses. Found an fully furnished apt at a Lakeside home, above a garage with kicka$$ deck, view, on a Lake known for Lake trout. I'm an avid outdoorsman so I would work for free to be in a setup this way. Well, almost free!!

i also just received my Alaska License. Folks it was so much hoop jumping to get that license by endorsement. I had a arrest for public intox 30 yrs ago. They wanted court records, not just an explanation for which I've given after background checks showed the hit. Well the county where I got busted has no records dating back that far. Alaska still wanted a letter from the clerk of courts saying that there was no records. This all takes phone calls, letters, etc. Then, after I sent in the letter from the clerk of courts saying there was no record, I get the FBI fingerprint results back. They, FBI, sent Alaska and me a copy of the report. It had that arrest, just as I had described. Goes to show that you can't fib on the applications...period. So I'm ready to rock, but it hasn't been an fun experience yet. Hope the fish are biting!!

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hey that is great news. hope it's a wonderful summer for you. enjoy!

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