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Agency bill rates are generally lower for per diem than travel. Thus lower overall compensation.
As Meriwhen mentions, in-house per diem with the hospital as the direct employer are higher than agency per diem. In fact, if you look at the union rate book at your travel hospital you will see probably better pay as an employee than as a traveler - plus the benefits of being a full time employee will far outweigh any tax advantages of being a traveler.
Lots of hard to get your head around issues out here in the working world! Some of them are rational if you think about them from the employer perspective long enough.
mursinary
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Hello, I'm a traveler in SoCal right now. (Inland empire)
I've been talking to HRN about picking up per diem shifts at other hospitals. I was surprised at their rates. Even taking into account the last 4 hours being time and a half, the pay is less than what I was making per diem in Milwaukee. ($46-50/hr)
Is the standard per diem rate in this area really mid $30's?! Or are they low balling me?