Travel nurse benefits

[misdmnr, BSN]

Im hoping you travel nurses here are willing to tell me what is common for health insurance cost and coverage....also what the retirement benefit is and if there is a matching % how much? Thank you all in advance!!! My background is ICU (neuro and surgical) and mental health.

[NedRN]

You've already asked both these questions in dedicated threads with extensive replies. Why not post additional questions to those threads?

But as a quick reiteration of basic economics, you get what you pay for. Should you find a rare agency with excellent health insurance or retirement match (for which you will now have to stick with that one agency), your other compensation will be lower than other agency's average pay. No free lunch.

[Child1]

I believe there are benefits but it all depends on which organizations or company you go with.

[guest769224]

On 9/19/2019 at 6:07 AM, NedRN said:

Should you find a rare agency with excellent health insurance or retirement match (for which you will now have to stick with that one agency), your other compensation will be lower than other agency's average pay. No free lunch.

Do you know of any agencies that DO offer retirement matching?

[NedRN]

So there are 400 agencies, I've only worked for a few. I've noticed some that do offer matching but as they always have a vesting period and I never quality, I've never paid any notice. So no, I don't. Any fringe benefits I don't care about, I try to negotiate extra pay instead.