HELP WITH pay PACAKGES

[cincin1222]

I don't understand how the second agency come up with $3150 gross when I enter all the information in Pantravelers, I am coming up with $38 hour less than the first agency but the gross for the first one seem lower even though the blended rate is higher

first agency

AY (FULL STIPEND OPTION)

Gross Pay: $1,476

Take Home weekly assuming 20% taxes: $1,370

Breakdown:

Housing stipend: $18/hr = $648/wk (untaxed)

Meals Stipend: $9/hr = $324/wk (untaxed)

Hourly Taxed: $14/hr. (taxed)

Total Hourly $41 (including stipends + hourly taxed pay based on 36 hours per week)

+ travel reimbursement on first paycheck

second:

Regular Hourly Rate: $24.00

Overtime Rate: $36.00

Holiday Rate:$ 36.00/hr

Charge Differential:$ 4.00/hr

Call Back: $ 46.65/hr

Meals & Incidentals ... $ 35.00/Day,

Allowance: $ 245.00/Week

Lodging Allowance: $ 70.88/Day

(Estimated to be): $ 2150/Month

Onboarding Bonus $100

$330.00 Maximum travel allowance to the assignment. $330.00 Maximum travel allowance to return home.

CAN SOMEBODY HELP ME FIGURE OUT IF THE SECOND ONE IS TRULY WHAT I AM COMING UP WITH AND SINCE IT'S FOR THE SAME HOSPITAL WHICH ONE IS A BETTER DEAL BECAUSE ALL I'M SEEING THE CHANGE IN NUMBERS

[NedRN]

It was originally a spreadsheet given to a developer to make a web calculator. It should soon be simpler and easier to use. Right now for example, you have just one way to enter housing, by the assignment. So you have to do some manual calculations to figure out the number you need. Items such as housing and per diems can be quoted by agencies by the hour, week, or month typically and for math challenged people, that can be tough or at least easy to miss. So a drop down will allow/force the user to select the time frame. The original poster apparently put just one month's housing in rather than three months. Which makes a difference when calculating total pay.

I made a rather strong recommendation to PanTravelers to remove the additional pay and deduction boxes. While they are useful if you have say a copay for insurance, or some upgrade in housing, the difference it make to total hourly pay is minimal and increases clutter and confusion of users tremendously. If they do it, it will be way better!

For those who have no idea of what we are talking about, agencies quote compensation with several figures for hourly, per diem, housing, travel, completion bonuses, and no figure provided at all for health insurance. Thus it can be quite difficult to determine what you are really making. Not to mention comparing offers from different agencies who quote very differently! PanTravelers has a handy calculator (from which I pasted the screen shots above) that helps you put a real number on your compensation which helps you compare offers or make the really difficult leap to compare it with your (former) staff job. Free to use, but a user account is needed to use it (just like Allnurses).