Overtime pay?

Specialties NP

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Hi everyone,

I am currently a salaried Neurosurgery NP and I'm working 10 HR night shifts. There is no other coverage for those other 3 nights that I'm not working. They are looking to hire someone but haven't found the right candidate yet. I would like to pick up an extra shift every once in a while if the money is worth while. I make 111k a year. Comes out to about $54 an hour. What do you think I should ask for if I picked up an extra shift? Do you think $100 an hour would completely turn them off?

Thanks in advance!

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Specializes in L&D.

I think that's completely within your range to ask for. I work prn at a hospital and they were paying moonlighting docs thousands of dollars per shift they were working so I think 100/HR sounds very reasonable.

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Thanks Katie, I just don't want to be ridiculous with what I'm asking for since it's almost double of my hourly pay. It would come out to $1,000 a night.

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Specializes in Psychiatric Nursing.

$54 per hour sounds low. It has come up before on this forum that NP's should be making 70-80 percent of MD's pay since it is often the same job. $100 per hour to cover nights. Sounds fine to me.

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Specializes in Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Nursing.

Another approach would be to try to coax your employer to be the first to put a figure out there for you. Because you never know, your employer might have been wiling to offer you more and you are short changing yourself. In general in negotiations, the side that puts out the figure first is at a disadvantage because it gives the other side valuable information about where the negotiations can go from there.

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Another approach would be to try to coax your employer to be the first to put a figure out there for you. Because you never know, your employer might have been wiling to offer you more and you are short changing yourself. In general in negotiations, the side that puts out the figure first is at a disadvantage because it gives the other side valuable information about where the negotiations can go from there.

Thanks for the pointer! I'm new at all of this negation stuff!

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Specializes in Surgery.

$100/hour is what I make to contract-so sounds about right.

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$100/hour is what I make to contract-so sounds about right.

What do you mean by "this is what I make to contract"?

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Specializes in Surgery.
What do you mean by "this is what I make to contract"?

Sorry-I'm a contracted employee at my second job. I moonlight. So it's akin to working OT rate of a usual job in my opinion..

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I see. Thanks for your input. I really don't want to work too much extra so it really needs to be worth while for me to do it. I feel at $100/HR, it's worth it.

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