Travel vs Full Time in NYC/Bronx/Queens

[RoXy16]

Hi all,

I am a nurse with 3+ years experience of MedSurg Tele and ICU currently (total 4 years+ experience). I live in Florida and was looking into living closer to family. My family is in Bronx/Queens NY and my husband's family in Doylestown PA. In order to compromise for my husband (who cannot stand NY), I was wondering if it would make sense to do travel nursing in NY but live in PA. Or would it make sense to just work full time in PA if the pay is comparable? Either way the move would be better for me financially because the pay in the area I work in now is on the lower end. Please advise and let me know your thoughts. Thanks in advance!

Roxy

[Wolf at the Door, BSN]

The agency is not going to appear at your audit, only you. There is no IRS fifty mile rule. You are recommending cheating the IRS.

I am not recommending anything. The nurse is entitled to the money. All the nurse needs to do is pay for lodging during the time of work days. Duplicating expenses gives you a right to the money tax free money. What or where the nurse goes on off days is that nurse's business.

[NedRN]

What you are recommending still is illegal. You cannot simply work some distance from home, rent a hotel room for a couple of nights and collect 7 days of lodging and per diem tax free. There is no entitlement to cheating the IRS and every other taxpayer.

[Maevish, ASN, RN]

The pay tends to be relative to the hospital as well as the agency. I'm at a Bay Area hospital now that pays a FRACTION of anywhere else in the Bay, but it was the first job to come along after my last one and I had to take it. Since I'm relatively new to traveling I thought it might be a mistake, the difference was so vast, but it's not (at least for this place). The nurses here, though, also only make a fraction of what pretty much the whole rest of the Bay make, so it's not just the travelers. xo