Hospital Shift Differential

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PharmerC

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For those who work in hospital, how are your shift differentials set up for evening/night/weekends. Set amounts of extra pay or extra % based on current pay. Looking for information based on permanent shifts more so than just rotating through the shift here and there. Thanks
 
$0 differential. Dayshift pharmacists rotate and work an average of 5 evenings a month. Night shift work 7 on 7 off 70 hours (get paid for 80) so while they don't get paid more than the dayshift pharmacists they work less, so their truly hourly rate is higher.
 
Differential for evening shift (~$7) if you start after 12pm, generous graveyard shift differential (> $25k/yr if that's your FT gig), weekend differential same as evening shift differential.

For when a satellite location is closed, call-in pays 4hrs OT flat regardless of time spent on the issue (unless it takes >4hrs, then actual time is paid).

Pharmacists rotate all shifts except graveyard, and satellite location on-calls.
 
Couple bucks for evening, a dollar more than that for night. Nothing for weekends.

Ive heard other local hospitals are a percentage and work out to an extra $15k a year. Now THATS worth switching to another shift. So basically I think its all random.
 
Remember it's one piece of the puzzle for compensation and the workloads in the evening vary between hospitals.

We have a high differential but a lot of high acuity stuff coming on overnight with much less help available.

So...random but not random, in a way.
 
10% for evening shift or graveyard, 20% weekends, 30% if it's evening/graveyard on a weekend.
 
Appreciate the feedback, looks like a lot of ~$7 differential for evening which is way, way higher than an original offer I saw. Especially since we get worked like dogs lol
 
15% for the evening and early mornings (aka overnight) and an additional 10% on the weekend. It adds an average of 18% to my hourly base rate. Unfortunately, I work the full 80 hours for overnight. On a 7 day period
 
Do a lot of hospitals do differential for weekends? Mine does not nor does it for night shift. All clinical pharmacists work every other weekend.
 
10% for anything after 6 pm. 25% on Sundays. Overnight pharmacists get 25% for their full shift when any part of that shift is on Sunday (basically they get Sunday pay for Sat/Sun and Sun/Mon)
 
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