Extra $ for the holidays...

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Specializes in Pediatrics.

Anyone else seeing this yet at your facilities? Due to the severe shortage of nurses this holiday season, my employer is offering an extra $40/hr to any nurse that agrees to work any extra major or minor holidays this year (on top of holiday pay @1.5x). Oh, we work 12's at my facility but you can agree to work in 4, 8, or 12 hrs increments if you want to sign up.

I was griping about already having to work Thanksgiving night, call on Christmas day and working New Year's Eve dayshift....now it might look a bit more enticing to pick up all the other holidays!

Figured it out and I could potentially gross over $800 in one 12 hr shift. Don't know what would be left after taxes...for a newbie w/plenty of credit cards to pay off its awfully tempting!

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Specializes in PeriOp, ICU, PICU, NICU.
Anyone else seeing this yet at your facilities? Due to the severe shortage of nurses this holiday season, my employer is offering an extra $40/hr to any nurse that agrees to work any extra major or minor holidays this year (on top of holiday pay @1.5x). Oh, we work 12's at my facility but you can agree to work in 4, 8, or 12 hrs increments if you want to sign up.

I was griping about already having to work Thanksgiving night, call on Christmas day and working New Year's Eve dayshift....now it might look a bit more enticing to pick up all the other holidays!

Figured it out and I could potentially gross over $800 in one 12 hr shift. Don't know what would be left after taxes...for a newbie w/plenty of credit cards to pay off its awfully tempting!

Wow, this is sweet. Congrats on working in there :)

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Specializes in Pediatrics Only.

Wow I would 'suffer' through working a holiday for that!

What a great incentive!

I work home health so the only thing I get to work a holiday is time and a half, which still isnt bad.

Wish I got offered an extra 40/hr- wow! Good luck :nurse:

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