Overtime money

llg, PhD, RN · Dec 3, 2004

You are welcome. Another distorted myth: you can save money on your taxes by spending/donating money. :)

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!

It's nice to meet you, NurseGuy_in_06. I don't believe I have encountered you before. I look forward to reading your future posts in other threads.

(Please don't take this a flirting. I am a frumpy middle-aged woman with enough common sense to know better!)

llg

NurseGuy_in_06 · Dec 3, 2004

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!
It's nice to meet you, NurseGuy_in_06. I don't believe I have encountered you before. I look forward to reading your future posts in other threads.
(Please don't take this a flirting. I am a frumpy middle-aged woman with enough common sense to know better!)
llg

A person is nerver too old or young to flirt. However, my wife may disagree so I won't show her my reply. :chuckle

purplemania, BSN, RN · Dec 3, 2004

Just be careful not to get used to that money. We have had nurses complain of not getting overtime during low census because they were dependent on that income. It should be "extra", not "expected", or you will end up in debt and too tired to enjoy your income.

LPN1974, LPN · Dec 3, 2004

I totally agree......It's nice to have a job with the OT option. I'm just worried that someone will put a stop to OT.

Well, didn't Bush try to do something like that...put a stop to overtime? What was that bill all about that they passed?

But they can't stop you from ANOTHER part time job. Same difference.

If you're after the money, it doesn't make any difference to me, where it comes from, it's all green.

I work for the state, and they don't pay overtime in money...it's compensation in extra time off. I even earn time and a half if I work 40 hours that week. But if I want extra MONEY I have to go elsewhere to get it.

Doesn't bother me one bit. And I DID pay alot more in taxes, but I STILL came out ahead after the taxes were paid for that year.

zambezi, BSN, RN · Dec 3, 2004

I try to work an extra 12 hr shift each week -- or two in a payperiod. And yes, it is financing my Christmas shopping this year and I paid for a vacation in August off of overtime. My regular pay is what I budget -- and the OT pay is for all for the extras or for paying things off. We get OT and extra per hour money for extra shifts -- so 1.5 pay for OT plus another...anywhere from $6-$20 an hour based on census. When I worked an extra shift on a holiday - I received about 2.5 times my base pay per hour.
However....with all that said - I would never rely on OT to make ends meet. Although I can *usually* get OT, there have been plenty of times when I would have liked to work extra but the patient load wasn't there to accomodate extra hours. There are just certain times of the year when census is high and other times when it is low -- it's a very interesting phenomena and based largely on the type of unit you work on.

I could have written this post myself!