Shift and weekend differentials- what are yours?

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Just wondering how other hospitals/facilities work their differentials

How much do you get?

Is it fixed or percentage based?

Is there a maximum you can get?

Where I work it is percentage based with pretty low maximums: you get 10% of your base for evening and weekends with a max of $2.00, and 20% for nights with a max of $6.50, And $1.00/hr for charge.

Wow, I knew my hospital stunk in the bene dept but it has the suckiest differentials posted yet!

Technically there is a 1.00 diff for evenings, but everyone works 12's, and you don't get anything extra for the last 4 hours (3-7pm).

Nites get 2.00/hr.

Weekends, nothing extra, but we do have a weekend program, they get time and a half for Fri after 3pm thru sunday, only no vacation or sick time, and can only take one weekend off every six months. Believe it or not, they actually get people to work it!!!!

Nothing extra for precepting, not even a meal ticket.

50 cents an hour for charge.

Nothing extra for working holidays, not even an extra day off. It's supposedly calculated into the total ETO, which you get to use when they call you to stay home on availability.

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Specializes in Hospice, Med/Surg, ICU, ER.

$3/hr for nights and $2.50/hr for weekends. Cumulative; i.e., weekend nights is $5.50/hr shift diff.

There is additional PTO credit for nights and weekends for FTEs.

I have no idea about charge or precept diffs.

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Specializes in Family.

The hospital I'm at pays $2.?? extra per hour from 3p to 7a, so day shift nurses do get the pay for the last 4 hours. On weekends, dayshift gets base +35% plus shift diff after 3p. Night nurses get base +50% +diff. Charge gets $1 extra I think. No extra pay for pulling or floating, no extra pay for working on a holiday. I personally think the diffs are awesome at this hospital.

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Specializes in Psych, substance abuse, MR-DD.

Ok, so my new job will be $4.10 for evenings, $4.80 for nights, and $3.45 for weekends.

so total that's $7.55 weekend evenings, and $8.25 weekend nights. Not too bad I guess.

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Specializes in Emergency.

8% for evenings/15% for nights - regardless of day of week

time-and-a-half for 4 hours over your scheduled shift

double time for working at least 4 hours of your weekend off

We recently went to a dollar-per-hour schedule for the differential, but grandfathered in current employees. I am not aware of the new pay scale, but know there is a cap, and it is considerably less than the percentage scale.

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I work at a non-union hospital. We get 2.00 hr after 1500, 4.00 hour after 2300. We also get 3.00 hr for preceptor and 3.00 for full time charge, 1.50 hour for relief charge. There is also a 4.00 weekend differential and 20.00 hour for "incentive shifts". Incentive shifts are paid to whoever picks up and extra shift in a unit where core staffing is down by 20%. So tomorrow I'm working incentive, charge, weekend and preceptoring for a total of 30.00 hour for the first 8 and 33.00 for the last 4 before I even get my base pay!

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10%/hr of base pay. M-F it starts @ 1800, Sat it starts @ 1300, Sunday it's all day. Go figure.

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Not sure about shift differentials but weekends...$0.

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Specializes in NICU.

3-11 gets $2.00 more

Nights get $3.00 more

Weekends $5.00 more

BSN's get $1.00 more

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Specializes in NICU.

we also have "red line" So when they need someone really bad they'll pay you $5.00 more.. you can get double and even triple redline sometimes

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Specializes in ED.

We get 7% diff for 3p-11p, 10% for 11p-7a, no weekend diff

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Specializes in Newborn ICU, Trauma ICU, Burn ICU, Peds.

I work in a union hospital and you guys are going to laugh at our differentials! I think you can guess where I work by my location...

Evenings (a work shift scheduled to begin on or after 11:00 a.m. and before 7:00 p.m., or has a majority of scheduled hours between 3:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m.) gets: $1.00/hr

and in addition to the hourly shift premium, a quarterly bonus of two hundred dollars ($200.00) will be paid to a full-time employee who works a complete quarter on evenings. In addition to the hourly shift premium and the quarterly bonus, a bonus of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1500.00) will be paid to a full-time employee who works four consecutive quarters on the evening shift. Those numbers are prorated for appointment fraction.

Nights is defined as a shift that starts between 7:00 p.m. and before 3:00 a.m., or has a majority of scheduled hours between 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. the hourly differential is: $1.25/hr

In addition to the hourly shift premium, a quarterly bonus of three hundred dollars ($300.00) will be paid to a full-time employee who works a complete quarter on nights. In addition to the hourly shift premium and the quarterly bonus, a bonus of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) will be paid to a full-time employee who works four (4) consecutive quarters on the night shift, prorated based on appointment fraction.

Weekends:

If they assign you to more than four weekend shifts in a four week period, you get $2.00 her hour for the extra shifts above four. but if you volunteer to work weekends:

An employee who volunteers or who is assigned and works a fifth (5th) and/or sixth (6th) weekend shift within the eight (8) weekend shifts in a four (4) week scheduling system, will be paid an hourly bonus of three dollars ($3.00) for all hours worked on the fifth (5th) and/or sixth (6th) weekend shift.

An employee who is assigned and works a seventh (7th) and/or eighth (8th) weekend shift in the same four (4) week scheduling block will be paid an hourly bonus of five dollars ($5.00) for all hours worked on the weekend shifts starting with the fifth (5th) weekend shift.

That's a bit hard to understand, I know. But it boils down to very little moola.

We get NOTHING for charge and nothing for precepting.

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