How many of you have to pay for parking for your work?

[~Mi Vida Loca~RN]

I had been pretty shocked to hear some nurses have to pay for parking upward to hundreds of dollars a month. This just boggles my mind. I couldn't imagine my employer making me pay to park at my job.

So I was just curious how commen this is.

We have 4 local hospitals and you don't have to pay for parking at any of them. 2 of them have large parking garages for the employees that you badge in and out of.

The other 2 places don't have garages but you still don't have to pay.

[FlyingScot, RN]

600 bucks a year for garage parking and I think 400 and some change for surface parking (which entails a rather long walk and is getting longer as they keep closing the lots to build more buildings on them). I sprung for the garage after a year of getting into a 140 degree car in the summer and scraping mounds of snow and ice off in the winter.

[bill4745, RN]

I pay $16 a month to park in the garage near the hospital. This is only for dayshift. Evenings and nights park in the garage for free. There is a lot located farther away than the garage where dayshift can park for free.

[elkpark]

in a hospital that is renowned worldwide in the heart of an urban community, hundreds upon thousands of nurses pay for parking each day. i cannot imagine just how many nurses work in this 5 block by 3 block facility. i know that most of the smaller hospitals in my area do not charge. the major places downtown charge for parking.

i'm in a similar situation -- working in a humongous world-renowned academic medical center in a busy urban area where parking is a nightmare for everyone. i pay just shy of $100/month for a parking space in a garage one block from my office; i could choose to pay less (~$75/month) to park in a garage which would require me to ride a shuttle bus to the campus and then walk twice as far to get to my office (in fact, my boss had to "pull strings" to get me the cushier, more expensive arrangement -- i didn't ask her to do that, but i'm happy to pay the extra for the more convenient location). the smaller, outlying hospitals in my area don't charge staff for parking. i'm paid enough to begin with that the parking charge isn't any great hardship, and it's just a basic reality in the area where the hospital is located.

this is the first time in my career, in five different states, that i've ever had to pay to park at work.

[RNperdiem, RN]

I work on a big university campus.

There is no free parking for students or staff during the week.

[cometnurse]

I dont have to pay for parking, however, I was told in orientation four years ago when I started, it would be apporximately 10 years before I get a parking spot in the ramp or a surface lot.

All the spaces are assigned but there is limited area downtown so half of the employees are taking buses from park and ride areas and such. I walk or take the city bus in the winter (which my hospital pays for the yearly bus pass until I am here long enough to get a parking spot)

[Dianne27]

Parking fees work-related are tax deductible. So is gas for your work commute, scrubs, and anything else you buy for work.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

i've paid for parking in seven different hospitals is six different states . . . and not paid a couple of times. currently, i'm paying about $75 a month, which is a bargain considering that i work in the middle of a high crime area and the parking ramps are patrolled.

[0402]

$25/ mo- all shifts.

[klone, MSN, RN]

I do, but it's nominal. On the surface lot it's $7/pay period. If I chose to park in the garage, it's $2/day

[ZippyGBR, BSN, RN]

i'm in the UK and pay just shy of 13gbp / month to park - although now the PFI FM partner has taken over parking it's not the bargain it was as it only covers one site now rather than all sites- which means faffing about if you have to work on another site or have an appointment at another site...

A lot is going to depend on the location of the hospital , when i worked in a big city teaching hospital i'd take the bus or walk the couple of miles to work in the week and on saturdays - i'd take the car on sunday because on-street and certain of the council run car parks wre free -

[birdie22]

We have to pay about $20/pay period (every two weeks). That's for the prime time parking - garage and closet parking to the hospital. It's pretax, so it ends up being about $6/every 2 weeks.

[Altra, BSN, RN]

I had been pretty shocked to hear some nurses have to pay for parking upward to hundreds of dollars a month. This just boggles my mind. I couldn't imagine my employer making me pay to park at my job.

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