Anonymous
01/10/2019 15:59
Subject: Overnight/ travel
Anonymous wrote:How much more is your travel rate than your daily pay? Do you work the same hours? On call overnight? Free to go to dinner on your own? Thanks
About $150 more. And no, I am generally working 24/7.
Anonymous
01/10/2019 14:53
Subject: Overnight/ travel
How much more is your travel rate than your daily pay? Do you work the same hours? On call overnight? Free to go to dinner on your own? Thanks
Anonymous
01/09/2019 13:14
Subject: Re:Overnight/ travel
I have always done a flat “travel rate” for the entire 24 hour period. I use my travel rate for overnights.
Anonymous
01/09/2019 12:22
Subject: Overnight/ travel
Hello,
I have an overnight pay established with my employers, which is paid hourly until the kids are down and my tasks are complete and regular hours while traveling with the family, OT applies where applicable. My overnight fee is $50 if I’m off duty and $100 if I am on-call, additional hours tallied if children wake. There have been times where this has felt fair and times where it was absolutely not worth my time to travel and be away from home for a measly $50 extra per day. I would like to reevaluate this before we resign our contract.
My thought is to be paid hourly except for an 8 hour block for sleep, but if I do that, I guarantee that they will want me on duty for all the hours I am being paid, which makes sense but is not something I want to do. I’ve also considered asking to be paid hourly during all my waking hours when I am unable to leave, such as when they are traveling and I stay with the children. But that doesn’t address my travel pay. I guess I could increase my travel pay, but I want to remain fair. Plus, if we go someplace lovely, like France, I am willing to go for the lower rate.
What do you charge? Would you recommend that I simply up my my overnight fees to $75 and $125 and keep the way the hours are tallied the same? Up my overnight fee to $75 (or $100?) when off duty and charge hourly during my awake time when I cannot leave? I also don’t want to change things up on them too much, but what we do now isn’t working for me. Your thoughts are greatly appreciated!
I have an overnight pay established with my employers, which is paid hourly until the kids are down and my tasks are complete and regular hours while traveling with the family, OT applies where applicable. My overnight fee is $50 if I’m off duty and $100 if I am on-call, additional hours tallied if children wake. There have been times where this has felt fair and times where it was absolutely not worth my time to travel and be away from home for a measly $50 extra per day. I would like to reevaluate this before we resign our contract.
My thought is to be paid hourly except for an 8 hour block for sleep, but if I do that, I guarantee that they will want me on duty for all the hours I am being paid, which makes sense but is not something I want to do. I’ve also considered asking to be paid hourly during all my waking hours when I am unable to leave, such as when they are traveling and I stay with the children. But that doesn’t address my travel pay. I guess I could increase my travel pay, but I want to remain fair. Plus, if we go someplace lovely, like France, I am willing to go for the lower rate.
What do you charge? Would you recommend that I simply up my my overnight fees to $75 and $125 and keep the way the hours are tallied the same? Up my overnight fee to $75 (or $100?) when off duty and charge hourly during my awake time when I cannot leave? I also don’t want to change things up on them too much, but what we do now isn’t working for me. Your thoughts are greatly appreciated!