How much do you get paid for being on call?

[RN-ing, BSN, MSN, NP]

On my unit, we are required to be on call two 12-hr shifts per month. The pay is about $2 per hour for us to be available for 12 hours.

Tonight, we can get 6 patients before I would be called in, and that many admissions rarely happens on nights in my ICU. But why not put me on call since its only costing the hospital about $24?

I feel like my time is not valued at $2 per hour. Also, if on-call pay was increased to, for example, $5 per hour, then perhaps mngmt would not be so quick to put 5 people on call every night!

What is it like for everyone else?

[RNforLongTime]

I get $2/hr for on-call pay

[Hay Nars, RN]

$2/hour ;-/

[solneeshka, BSN, RN]

I work in the OR, we get $2.25 an hour for call. I've never heard of higher call pay than that.

[Bronx010710]

$1/hr

[Jennerizer, ASN, RN]

We used to get nothing! Now all of a sudden we're getting 1 hour of pay for every 4 hours we are on call.

[Elvish, BSN, DNP, RN, NP]

$2/hr for on-call, then time and a half if we are called in.

[pednursedeb]

We also get $2 hr. It's no called on call though it's stand by. If we get called off

for low census we are put on stand by. They can then call you in for any unit they want to. Until about a year ago we didn't get anything though.

[robert2010]

6.75 =$75.00 for Davita Acute Dialysis in Houston Texas for weekends and $50 for weekdays....12 hours

[nurse2033, MSN, RN]

You are right, your time is not valued. The hospital takes it and claims it for themselves. We get $4/hr and I like it so much I just quit (not the only issue). If you don't get called in they use your paid time off to cover it so we never have vacation time for oh say, a vacation. It works out great for the hospital. It is not ethical or just and I won't take it any more.

[tokmom, BSN, RN]

4 bucks an hour.

[Aymese]

$3.5 an hour is the average among cath labs in Atlanta.