$1302 every two weeks? =/

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So I'm looking into travel nursing and am just speaking to recruiters and I just talked to a recruiter and asked her for a ball park pay for a med-surge/tele with 2.5 years experience would be in the Boston area...and she said $1300 every 2 weeks...that's $650 per week, including housing, plus I will be an itinerant traveler, so some money is taken out for taxes. But, I would at least hope to get $1100 per week and I told her that I probably wouldn't take any assignment that doesn't pay at least that much. She said she would note that and contact me if something comes up. I did not bother to ask for any more pay details since I was just curious how much I would take home. But, I get paid more than that as a staff RN. Does this sound like a fair pay? How do you go about negotiating pay after you basically got low-balled...or do you just say no thanks?

Wow..I guess I'm not the only one? But, since it's not an actual pay package..I suppose I can still speak to them regarding an assignment and the pay when the time comes, but so far the numbers aren't looking good. I may just have to tell her to take me off her calling list too! It's just ridiculous that is what they estimate to be my take home pay.

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OK, so pay is complicated. You've just blurred the picture further by saying this is take home pay, not gross. You have to get an entire quote for it to mean anything. When you have all the numbers, you can use PanTravelers calculator to help you figure out what them mean, and rationalize them so you can compare other quotes.

I still don't know what housing included means, that is an ambiguous statement. Do you have to pay for your housing out of your take home or is it on top of your take home pay? Always try to get a quote for a housing stipend. You can still take the provided housing instead, but you need to know the number for several reasons, including knowing what your real total compensation is going to be.

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Housing is 1 bed 1 bath provided housing along with the weekly take home pay. Thanks for letting me know to always try to get a quote for a housing stipend. I will also be sure to use the PanTravelers calculator once I get a pay package!

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Specializes in ICU / PCU / Telemetry / Oncology.
It's funny to me bc that hospital was offering a 10k sign on bonus with a 18 year commitment for staff.

18 years?? Is that correct? Who would make that commitment for $10k? 18 MONTHS maybe? LOL!

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Specializes in School nursing.
Housing is 1 bed 1 bath provided housing along with the weekly take home pay. Thanks for letting me know to always try to get a quote for a housing stipend. I will also be sure to use the PanTravelers calculator once I get a pay package!

Okay, $650 take home pay after housing is paid for? Now, that is a different story to me. It is expensive to rent in Boston! (Especially depending on hospital you are at/how close you need to be to work, some neighborhoods are even bigger bucks...)

If I could take home that much weekly AFTER I paid my rent, I'm okay. If you get the housing stipend quote rolled in, I wonder how the package looks.

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Specializes in ED, ICU, PSYCH, PP, CEN.

I have done travel nurse a few times. Don't let them give you weekly take home rates. Make them contract an hourly rate. I won't go out for less than 32.00$ an hour. Make them separate out your housing ie: You get paid housing. 2. You get an hourly rate. They can not possibly tell you what your take home pay would be weekly. They don't know what your tax deductions are or anything.

Remember the hospital is paying them a set rate of maybe 80.00 $ per hour to supply a nurse. What ever they keep from you they get to keep for themselves.

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NO THANKS!!!

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Specializes in ER, Trauma.

Thats crappy pay I wouldn't take anything below $1300. Check out FastStaff they have a ton of jobs and pay the best and I loved medical solutions to they have great insurance. I have been traveling for the past couple years. If you have any questions feel free to message me. What company is this with this crappy pay?

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Thanks for sharing this information! I will keep this in mind =)

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Thats crappy pay I wouldn't take anything below $1300. Check out FastStaff they have a ton of jobs and pay the best and I loved medical solutions to they have great insurance. I have been traveling for the past couple years. If you have any questions feel free to message me. What company is this with this crappy pay?

Cross country...I have checked out medical solutions and hope to speak to them some more. Thanks for the offer...I will message you if I have any more questions!

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Specializes in ICU/PACU.

OP mentioned itinerant traveler. So your pay is going to be different than most of what we are used to seeing as travelers. I am not sure how that works.

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That quote is a total joke! I'm a travel nurse and my first assignment in a low paying area of FL (one if the lowest paying states) was 1200 "take home pay" weekly! Never never take anything less than that. I was a new traveler, only 1 year of experience at the time, low paying state and low paying area. I was at the bottom of the pay scale and took home 1200/ week. Went to AZ after that and made 1450/week take home for 3 12 hour shifts. Email me at [email protected] and I'll be glad to help with questions.

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