in a free market, how much more would they have to pay you to work nights?

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If facilities paid enough for nights and holidays in a free market, they'd find people willing to work, without resentment.

So how big would the shift differential have to be, for you to be happy working nights?

Happy working Christmas, or your major holiday?

Me, I'm thinking about $15/hr over daily for nights, and I don't know what for Christmas. $70/hr. Maybe.

$4/hr. Pfffft to that.

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Sad I'm so cheap I'm working Christmas day and night for 15 an hour vs. my 10 an hour.

:( I even volunteered.

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

I'd happily work nights for no extra shift differential or bonuses.

Night shift offers several perks for me. First of all, I can work without abusive family members bothering me during my shift, since visiting hours typically end at about 8pm. If all goes well, at least half of my patients will be asleep, and therefore unable to make demands of me. In addition, there's no doctors to round with. There's no interruptions from dietary, PT, OT, social services, or the lab during night shift.

Day shift is a chaotic zoo that I'd happily escape.

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It's a wonder that I don't offer to pay my present employers for the privilege of working night shift. I'm a night shift person and have been for years, in two different careers. Right now I'm about to start 40 hrs a week on day shift and really don't look forward to it. I'm still hunting around for an elusive night shift job.

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Specializes in Occ health, Med/surg, ER.

I work nights right now and I love it. I just hate not spending time with my son. I cant put a price on how much time with him everyday would be worth...priceless. :( I wonder how much admin and HR would ask for in night diff if suddenly they all had to work nights......? Then I would ask for double that! LOL:chuckle

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I'd consider it a privilege to even get OT for working holidays (Christmas, etc)! Anyone else find it unfair that the ERPs get doubletime on holidays... the nurses, plain ole base pay? :angryfire

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

My facility just sticks new grads on nights and that's that. They pay $4.00 diff.

I worked at a place that offered double time and a half for Thanksgiving, Xmas and New Years, if we were willing to give up 8 hours of holliday pto (there we had pto and holiday hours, if we worked the holiday we would get 8 hours to take later, if we gave up those 8 hours we'd get double time and a half). They had waiting lists and people were turned away from working the holiday. So the free market and high pay does entice.

For $15.00 extra dollars and hour I would work nights, but the current 4.00 they offer isn't enough to entice me back to nights, which I did for 13 years.

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I wouldn't work nights. Who is going to take care of my kids at night??

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Specializes in home health, peds, case management.

there's not enough money in the world to get me to work nights....btdt....don't remember much that happened during that time frame.....thank goodness there are "night owls" who can pull that shift and enjoy it....

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$100 an hour

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It IS a free market. And you choose to work there.

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Specializes in ICU, CCU,Wound Care,LTC, Hospice, MDS.

Kids grown and out of the house, less work, fewer visitors, half the patients asleep, NO docs- no question! It's nights for me! And they pay me more to boot!

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