DavidinAustin

because common sense dictates

As someone who has been reading these boards for years, I've never found it necessary to respond to a posting before this. Erik, you're so incorrect...excuse me, misinformed, that I hardly know where to begin, but I will do my best. "...They make more off a contract than you do and don't do a thing for it". Oh really? An agency makes that much off of each contract? Let's do the math, shall we? If an agency is billing a hospital $60/hr, you are probably being paid $30/hr. The remaining $30/hr goes towards your housing, your insurance, your travel, your licensing, your drug testing, your mileage...and we haven't even gotten to agency overhead to pay for the office, the phones, their insurance, compliance, jhaco accrediation, liability, etc etc. How much do you think is really left over? "If no contract completion bonus is offered, they are keeping it". What a joke!! Hospitals almost NEVER offer completion bonuses, the travel nurse agency does!! And you're paying for it!! The bonus just comes from money that could have gone into your hourly pay, just withheld then paid as a completion bonus. Hospitals NEVER offer it. Well, I take that back, they sometimes do and if it is withheld from you, it was worked into your hourly pay to make sure you got what you wanted. Profit margin on a typical assignment for a travel nurse is somewhere between 15-25%, and most of that goes to overhead. Again if you have been paid a completion bonus, it was in lieu of a higher hourly rate. I can guarantee you this. Again, LOL at the absurd notion that an agency is making more off you than you are.