Please help with CA pay package

sounds fair if that is the money paid to you after they have paid for housing......

actually sounds good, not fair

How does it compare with the other offers you received? Does the housing come out of your gross pay?

Thanks for the replies.

This is actually my first offer for California, so I don't have other offers to compare it with yet.

And no, supposedly the housing will not come out of the gross pay.

While I'd normally say collect some more offers and talk to other agencies, I'd actually suggest just taking it if it is really as advertised. San Francisco is a world class city and USCF on your work history will make you more marketable. Plus California staffing ratio law improves the chances that this is a good assignment in general.

There are a couple of caveats here, one is that housing is really not coming out of your quote. I would confirm that as your total pay is higher than I would expect.

The other is you don't have a California license? Is the agency really able to place you in this assignment at any time in the future? It would seem impossible to predict when your license will come so I don't see how you could get a good start date or legitimate contract. I'd confirm that too.

May I ask what agency you are with? :)

So the recruiter that quoted me this pay package just informed me that this is for oncology and she said she just found out. I'm not sure if I believe that; that's been almost 2 weeks ago.

Well, if you don't have your California license yet, there is not much point in a recruiter staying on top of an assignment you can't do anyway. Normally, I would tell a traveler to bail if they didn't get a straight story out of a recruiter in two weeks but I don't think we have the full picture. But if you can't trust the recruiter, and they are not performing, aaaand it is an agency with a bad reputation (Aya, formerly Access nurses), I can't see a good reason not to start talking to some of the hundreds of other agencies out there. Promises are worth little on the open market. Talking to other agencies is recommended even if your perception is that things are going great. Stuff happens and it is good to have a Plan B.

Thanks for your reply. I am contacting other agencies.

BTW, I have the CA license now; it's the temporary one for now and they issued it a week ago.

I feel like I can't trust this recruiter.

Move on!