My best guess is they are paying you 500k for 17 weeks of work.
Everyone has a price they will work for …but it ain’t $400/hr overnight busy all the time. It would have to be much higher to work overnight consistently.
Where you getting 400/hr home call at let me know, or where you find places that let you do that. Otherwise it sounds fake
Everything is negotiable. You just have to ask. Some will say no, some will say yes.
Depends on what stage of ur life and career.
How low is low?
The solo in house ob kills the deal. No matter how light it it.
I negotiated my own nighttime rates at that one facility. Beeper. It’s hit or miss what they will approve. They just renewed it to Dec 31 2025. They approved another doc as well. We sometimes split up the nights and days to make it advantageous for both of us.
You just made that up didnt you?
1000% this. There is a reason people feel like crap after nights. Everyone. Every single person. I challenge people who say they don’t by asking “Do you feel as good or better that when you only worked days?”
Some of the hospitals in my area with envision are going to this model. 1 week of nights in house and 2 weeks off. They pay only around 400k and most of them have OB. If you can get 450-500 I think that’s a good deal If you are ok with nights.
Department chairs don’t work daytime either!
No. Night floats are by far the more popular jobs these days if administer correctly
I’m confused. So there is another anesthesia group in-house just to cover airways?
U need to convince admin for 4 night floats. Plus crnas to sleep at night. Only way it’s sustainable
How unusual? Big difference between 10% and 30%. Unless the call is very low % I don't really see the appeal of 1 week on 2 weeks off. You'll need time to recover, you won't be making that much compared to a regular job and you'll probably have worse health than a regular job. 500 deliveries a year is nothing, but the OR side can easily make or break this.
My cousins and aunt and uncle from Indiana (Terre haute, some call it Indiana sewer lol). But it’s a great place to raise a family. My uncle was a professor there. I wouldn’t knock it. Lots of low cost living areas in all of America.
They're low cost for a reason....
Understand. I’ve lived in the city (NYC) and great place to visit. But I’d never live there again. Same with the actual city of San Francisco. Worked there for a bit. Can’t stand the city. Can’t believe my sister survived living 4 years at ucsf med there.
Hoo boy
Go visit East Memphis then report back to us.
The opening offer I got in Memphis last year was $450/hr, guaranteed 10-12hr shifts but "you can end later if you want." $500/hr OT. They said they wanted me to start taking CV and liver transplant call week one. Any place that has an opening offer that high with allegedly unlimited hours, and wants you to start taking Level 1 trauma and liver transplant call with unfamiliar surgeons on day one? That's gonna be a hard no from me no matter what the price. Sounds like you're walking into a disaster.
If you make it back…. I suggest a bulletproof vest. Memphis just was named the most dangerous city in the world…. In the world! It’s a real shame
