Night Shift Differential

We get $3.25 for 3-11 and $4.00 for 11-7. If we work an extra shift we get an additional $4.00 an hour. This past winter, we had such a bad flu season we got $10.00 an hour extra for "premium" shifts.

What does your facility pay for working night shift? (I define night shift as being 7P to 7A or 11P to 7A.)

I have interviewed a few nurses lately for our ICU and each have said they won't work nights. Well, no one works steady daylight so I can't hire new people that won't work nights and tell my faithful staff that they have to pick up more nights because the new people won't!

So...I'm thinking we have to make it more attractive to work nights. Some places offer a better differential for night shifts; I read on this board somewhere about people lining up to work nights because the pay was awesome. Our facility pays a $0.75 shift differential for nights (certainly not enough to be appealing).

What does your place do? Or what would you suggest we try to make night shift more appealing? (It's tough for some, I know; I personally HATE nights but always worked my share.)

This is an OLD thread! Cool!

Where I work, evenings (3-11) get $1.25 an hour and nights (11-7) get $3.00 an hour. As a 12 hour night nurse, I can't complain. :)

Ted

I get an extra 10% for 11p-7a and 5% extra for every weekend I work...

Where I just started, weekday evenings is $3.00, nights $4.88. Weekends are almost double the weekday differentials. I can't for the life of me remember what weekend day differential is..something like $2.30 or so.

Silly question from a student ...

Those of you who indicated that your shift differential is a percentage (5%, 10%, etc.) -- do I understand that correctly to mean that your differential is a % of your hourly rate? So that as time goes by, and presumably you receive increases, your differential also increases if you continue to work nights?

Just curious ... :)

Yes, that's what it means where I am!

3.00/hr shift diff for nocs, plus an additional 4.50/hr for the weekend (Fri, Sat, AND Sun)... I sign up for alot of extra weekend shifts...

My body misses working days. I prefer evenings, but have kids in activities. Took a pay cut to come to my current job, so I needed the shift diff, to help make the cut more tolerable.

I don't think I will EVER go back to days.... I don't have to deal with all that miscellaneous crap when the bosses are around.

There is a $2.70 eves/nocs differential in my facility. I am a new grad, and with that, I make $19.10/hour, which is about average around here. I don't think I could support myself if I worked days! I'm just now getting enough money saved up to start looking at moving out to my own apartment!

Wow where are u located?

Before our hospital joined another company we were paid $4 7p-7am. Now that someone else has kind of taken over we get 15% of our base pay which I took a pay cut by now only receiving $3.30 an hour. If I only received 0.75 cents an hour more working nights I would have switched over to days a longggg time ago. The only reason I haven't switched over yet is because we still need the extra $$. DH had to get a job (he was a stay at home dad) a couple months ago becuase on top of the pay cut our insurance went up and we just can't keep up anymore. it stinks..

Silly question from a student ...

Those of you who indicated that your shift differential is a percentage (5%, 10%, etc.) -- do I understand that correctly to mean that your differential is a % of your hourly rate? So that as time goes by, and presumably you receive increases, your differential also increases if you continue to work nights?

Just curious ... :)

presumably I would think this is how it works. the whole increase doesn't happen too often in my dept in my hospital though. We've gotten 2 raises and I've been there 3 years now. The second raise they gave us as a courtesy (I firmly believe for many reasons) b/c a lot of us were going to take paycuts with the decreased SD in the next month.

No night differential or holiday pay if working on a holiday for RN's, yet our LPN coworkers get time and a half for holidays.