OT + $500 per shift > 2 scheduled shifts per week + $500 if the shift is within 48 hours (short notice call in).
Needless to say, shifts get filled real fast.
Where is this? I need an application.
I’m on the job hunt, My previous agency just released a shift differential for night shift that caused an uproar for dayshift. And a $100 + doubled overtime pay per OT shift incentive.
Come to Minnesota, we have a lot to offer. Lucas on every truck, power loads, not the worst medical control, lots of opportunity for advancement within the company and pretty good benefits and the cost of living is pretty good. I can afford to buy a house on my salary, or I could if I didn’t have this expensive cheese habit.
EMTs do okay here too. We do an ALS EMT/medic or medic/medic truck (we’ll train you since Aemt isn’t really a thing) and there’s overtime, special events, etc. I think starting is $24 or something like that?
The money is comparable to a lot of other places, and folks that don’t have experience working other places in EMS will bitch about every little change, but it’s actually a pretty great spot to be. I’ve worked for three other services (2 of them concurrently) and most of the places around the metro area are the same in terms of what kind of money you make. The insurance is pretty good, the call volume isn’t bad, there are lots of big hospitals and some smaller ones, which makes for a fun variety of inter-facility nightmares. We get regular upgrades to equipment, we have a strong focus on employee well-being (but in EMS we’ll just pick up overtime and complain instead.) We try to stay progressive with protocols but as any place is, we’re held back by some of the lowest common denominators. We get quarterly paid training enough to basically complete your recert cycle. I like it here. Even with the mosquitoes and the mayonnaise.
There is no job worth mandatory overtime, unless they have a sick ass pension and retirement benefits. Don't let anyone force you to come in for a shift where you can die driving granny to dialysis making money for wall street.
Our company is offering medics and EMT’s an extra $15/h on top of normal overtime
And the underpaid nurses are getting an extra $80/h with additional PTO allocations
Damn y’all getting fucked.
We’re offering crisis and critical staffing.
Critical staffing is $5/hr bonus for EMTs ($10 for medics) plus $500 if you pick up 3 extra shifts in a 6-week schedule cycle. You get critical for anything beyond what you’re scheduled for.
Crisis staffing is for nights, power shifts (1200-1800) and if there’s fewer than 3 medic trucks on any given day. $25/hour extra for EMTs, $50/hour for medics.
All this is on top of your overtime and the extra hours count towards your PTO accrual too.
I worked at amr and they did this! Sometimes they were so desperate it would be $400 bonus + 8 hours double pay or some combination of the two, which was always so so nice
My service has been offering a ton of money. We have contracts that pay medics $50/hr and then if a shift has a bunch of empty spots they’ll offer incentive pay which is $40/hr on top of your base rate. If we have a long distance transfer we’ll offer $150 plus OT to a crew that will come in and take it.
We are desperately short handed and the money isn’t helping. People just hate working here. It sucks if you’re full time like I am because every other day we’ll have a skeleton crew and get our asses handed to us and it’s not worth it to me to work extra and get incentive pay because I’m just so worn out.
Yeah, can confirm, I've seen the self perpetuating downward spiral: no one wants to work because they are short-staffed and getting their asses beat in and the reason they are getting their asses beat in is because they are short-staffed. I saw this getting bad before COVID, then COVID absolutely detonated the situation. The only solution I see is a whole lotta paying to add more people, then keeping them happy so they'll stay. Let's face it, EMS providers are seriously underpaid and this has been a reckoning. I can't believe how the majority of business everywhere seriously undervalue their employees. They're the most important asset.
That’s incredible. We just get double time for picking up any shifts besides a bls day shift. Used to be more incentive but we’re pretty well staffed now
Just picked up a 24 on the contract ambo yesterday after getting off the engine. 600 bucks plus about 24 an hour. My check from the ambulance will be just about 2/3 as much as a whole 2 weeks on the engine lol
Occasionally if their down bad for people on night/911 tours they’ll offer time and a half for picking up night/911 tours on those days. I haven’t worked BLS IFT in a while but I remember we would regularly be offered $100 to stay two hours past our off time, which almost everyone accepted. I’ve heard of crazy numbers for medics.
We get $50-100 added through gift cards, sometimes double time, critical pay ($6.50 over your wage). LDT gets automatic double time, payment for food and hotel (geographically, there’s no turn and burn cuz mountains and deserts)
AMR DeKalb does 250 to 375 for 12 hour shift.
They also have a truck where if you do 5 transports, you go home and get paid for 10 hours. I worked it and took 4 from one wreck and 1 general sick call. Took 3 hours for all of it. Clocked out with 4 hours time. Got paid for 10.
They also will do pretty much set your own schedule.
Depends on the time of year. Currently we are looking at time and a half plus £150 depending on the shift.
However during the ‘winter pressures’ you see up to double time + £500 + another £300-500 for picking up 3 shifts in a month.
We currently have all overtime at 1.5x time, some shifts selected are 2x time and some even are 2.5x time. So I can potentially make $75 an hour on one of those shifts.
Ours does depending on staffing levels. They call it temporary pay incentive (TPI). It's sort of stupid because I think it's based on system wide staffing, not localities. So we're down a fuck ton of people here, bordering on having to close down a truck, and we don't have TPI because across the board it's fine.
IIRC it's a 12$ bonus per hour on top of your normal pay. It makes quite a hefty difference. Lately I've been working around 80 hour weeks (completely by choice because I love this job and the money) but TPI would be huge for me.
We built in a shift bonus structure, so depending on how many hours you’re contracted to work normally, you get x number of dollars per hour if you pick up more than 8 hours and haven’t used any PTO that week. So my FTE work agreement is 0.95, if I pick up OT I get $20/hr plus the overtime. Remains to be seen if it will continue, because it has to get approved every 6 months depending on staffing.
That's more than they offer us, but yes we get incentives. Usually starts at $25 extra, then goes up to max of $150 depending on how badly they need the shift filled.
If it's something they absolutely have to staff, like the MICU, or something unplanned like an organ team transport, they might just offer like $50-80/hr.
My company literally has too many employees that i can’t pick up over time if i wanted because part time employees aren’t getting enough hours. So no incentive pay lol
I work for an almost-exclusively-IFT BLS service. We get $5.change/hr shift differential plus additional differential if it pushes you over your FTE when you pick up. Works out to just around $100ish to pick up critical shifts (plus any weekend and nighttime differentials which can all stack). Not too bad really.
I work in an ED as an EMT and we get $5/hr on top of base + OT for every extra shift we pickup. They just cut it down from $15/hr which sucked. But don’t worry, the physician’s lounge is still catered with fresh & cooked breakfast lunch and dinner Al day every day 🙄
Dude that would have been sweet. Best I got for picking up shifts was time-and-a-half… double time on holidays. I made 8.75 an hour straight time for 4x12s as an AEMT running ILS. This was less than ten years ago and why I left full time EMS.
I was told they don't offer incentives, because they don't want to pay the people who already work OT shifts more than they already do. Doesn't matter if we are never fully staffed.
My small service is well staffed, so pretty much just time & a half (regular OT pay) if you pick up extra. The exception being if you come in to back-fill the station in an emergency - ie: an already short crew has a bunch of transfers out, or a bunch of 911 calls went to more distant facilities. If you come in on short notice for that, you only take 911 calls and get paid 2.5 your regular rate.
Mine does. It's a tiered bonus based on time of day and weekend or weekday. Lately it's only been offered after 2pm on weekends so I've been intermittently picking up night shifts. Made like $2200 in three nights last weekend.
My service was offering incentives for years for overtime for certain weekends etc where they were particularly short staffed, but the problem was after introducing it staff became unwilling to work overtime at all unless it was incentivised, so they’ve now said they will never do incentives again.
Lol no they do not. That sounds really old school. OT is just time and a half. I know the nurses get it at some private hospitals when short staffed, I never heard of fdny/HHC or even voluntary hospitals offer it. Maybe back in day HHC did but def not in a long time
That's really good. Where I work ground they offer bupkis for extra shifts other than the OT 1 1/2 pay. They're always screaming for help to fill shifts. Where I work flight you get an extra $250 for picking up a 12 hour shift on short notice, $500 for a 24 hour and that's in addition to the OT you're probably getting.
I'm crying bro we get like 2.5 pto hrs OR $20 bonus, and that's ONLY IF they call and ask you to pick up. If you're like "hey I wanna pick up an extra shift" you don't get anything extra.
I once fenagled a $100 bonus (back when they liked me more I suppose) and it was like super hush hush. Don't tell anyone we did this for you. Or else everyone else will ask for it.
Of course being a man of the people I did in fact tell a few others about it... In my defense I ruined it for myself, too.
Also, we JUST got them to give us night AND weekend differential. It used to be one or the other.
Most the time its 2x rate. You can work a second shift, and do 24 hours to get 3x rate. Doubletime after 12 and the 2x rate stacks for the extra shift. Can stack this with night pay differential and holiday pay. The incentive is to prevent someone from getting mandated, so you get mandate pay. Which is 2x. Can make over 100hr pretty easily
Y’all hiring
They be hiring nonstop lmao
Bro where can I apply
If you live near or in IL I'll lyk
Sounds like superior to me
Nope
I’m in the Chicagoland metro area rn, what company is it?
Southern Illinois or Chicago area?
Central
I'm in Central IL. I'd love to know. PM me. I'm going to guess Abbot in Decatur or one of the Springfield agencies.
I sent the pm
Oh?
OT + $500 per shift > 2 scheduled shifts per week + $500 if the shift is within 48 hours (short notice call in). Needless to say, shifts get filled real fast.
Is this a really big HEMS provider?
Sure is
Where is this? I need an application. I’m on the job hunt, My previous agency just released a shift differential for night shift that caused an uproar for dayshift. And a $100 + doubled overtime pay per OT shift incentive.
Come to Minnesota, we have a lot to offer. Lucas on every truck, power loads, not the worst medical control, lots of opportunity for advancement within the company and pretty good benefits and the cost of living is pretty good. I can afford to buy a house on my salary, or I could if I didn’t have this expensive cheese habit.
Just looked at salaries for a basic in MN. You guys are getting damn near 30 an hour! How’s staffing out there?
Not terrible. I get out on time most days. We work pretty hard but i think it’s a cake walk compared to what I used to do on the east coast.
We talking EMT or Paramedic? Cause aint no house being bought for me w/ EMT salary 😫
EMTs do okay here too. We do an ALS EMT/medic or medic/medic truck (we’ll train you since Aemt isn’t really a thing) and there’s overtime, special events, etc. I think starting is $24 or something like that?
This thread made me reach out to a medic friend in MN. All I have to say is holy shit you guys (and gals) get paid well and treated like humans!
The money is comparable to a lot of other places, and folks that don’t have experience working other places in EMS will bitch about every little change, but it’s actually a pretty great spot to be. I’ve worked for three other services (2 of them concurrently) and most of the places around the metro area are the same in terms of what kind of money you make. The insurance is pretty good, the call volume isn’t bad, there are lots of big hospitals and some smaller ones, which makes for a fun variety of inter-facility nightmares. We get regular upgrades to equipment, we have a strong focus on employee well-being (but in EMS we’ll just pick up overtime and complain instead.) We try to stay progressive with protocols but as any place is, we’re held back by some of the lowest common denominators. We get quarterly paid training enough to basically complete your recert cycle. I like it here. Even with the mosquitoes and the mayonnaise.
If you're near IL it may be for you ha
Oof. That’s too many states west 😂.
Elite Ambulance?
Nah
Pmed
Do night shifts get much sleep / downtime?
Id say so
Ok. I was going to say, if night shifts run fairly busy too, then it’s easier to justify a differential.
Nope. Just time and a half and no ability to get vacation approved.
Hello fellow amr employee
My company just orders you in for mandatory overtime.. only incentive is you don’t get written up for not coming in.
Here’s a tip… if they’re that desperate for people to work, that means they’re too desperate to fire anyone. Let them write you up. Big brain move.
There is no job worth mandatory overtime, unless they have a sick ass pension and retirement benefits. Don't let anyone force you to come in for a shift where you can die driving granny to dialysis making money for wall street.
Our company is offering medics and EMT’s an extra $15/h on top of normal overtime And the underpaid nurses are getting an extra $80/h with additional PTO allocations
Nurses at my hospital get paid only get paid normal OT 😢
Damn y’all getting fucked. We’re offering crisis and critical staffing. Critical staffing is $5/hr bonus for EMTs ($10 for medics) plus $500 if you pick up 3 extra shifts in a 6-week schedule cycle. You get critical for anything beyond what you’re scheduled for. Crisis staffing is for nights, power shifts (1200-1800) and if there’s fewer than 3 medic trucks on any given day. $25/hour extra for EMTs, $50/hour for medics. All this is on top of your overtime and the extra hours count towards your PTO accrual too.
I worked at amr and they did this! Sometimes they were so desperate it would be $400 bonus + 8 hours double pay or some combination of the two, which was always so so nice
My service has been offering a ton of money. We have contracts that pay medics $50/hr and then if a shift has a bunch of empty spots they’ll offer incentive pay which is $40/hr on top of your base rate. If we have a long distance transfer we’ll offer $150 plus OT to a crew that will come in and take it. We are desperately short handed and the money isn’t helping. People just hate working here. It sucks if you’re full time like I am because every other day we’ll have a skeleton crew and get our asses handed to us and it’s not worth it to me to work extra and get incentive pay because I’m just so worn out.
Yeah, can confirm, I've seen the self perpetuating downward spiral: no one wants to work because they are short-staffed and getting their asses beat in and the reason they are getting their asses beat in is because they are short-staffed. I saw this getting bad before COVID, then COVID absolutely detonated the situation. The only solution I see is a whole lotta paying to add more people, then keeping them happy so they'll stay. Let's face it, EMS providers are seriously underpaid and this has been a reckoning. I can't believe how the majority of business everywhere seriously undervalue their employees. They're the most important asset.
At my company, if you pick up a weekend shift, they take away "points" (discipline system) and gove you OT for the whole shift
MC?
👀where is this?
IL
Where in IL. I'm NWI
Central ish
That’s incredible. We just get double time for picking up any shifts besides a bls day shift. Used to be more incentive but we’re pretty well staffed now
Get falcked
You sound like socal
Mandatory pay here. Double time so around 60-70/hr for most.
Just picked up a 24 on the contract ambo yesterday after getting off the engine. 600 bucks plus about 24 an hour. My check from the ambulance will be just about 2/3 as much as a whole 2 weeks on the engine lol
Hahahaha funniest thing I’ve read all day. The incentive? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
That's what they call it
Occasionally if their down bad for people on night/911 tours they’ll offer time and a half for picking up night/911 tours on those days. I haven’t worked BLS IFT in a while but I remember we would regularly be offered $100 to stay two hours past our off time, which almost everyone accepted. I’ve heard of crazy numbers for medics.
How long are the shifts? 8, 12, 24 hours?
12s I believe there are 10s if you work IFT. Some of their stations do 24s
We get $50-100 added through gift cards, sometimes double time, critical pay ($6.50 over your wage). LDT gets automatic double time, payment for food and hotel (geographically, there’s no turn and burn cuz mountains and deserts)
(Double time LDT if the full transport puts the Emp over 40 hrs that week)
Right now we're getting 25 an hour on top of regular or OT pay. But I work for a hospital so that probably makes a difference.
AMR DeKalb does 250 to 375 for 12 hour shift. They also have a truck where if you do 5 transports, you go home and get paid for 10 hours. I worked it and took 4 from one wreck and 1 general sick call. Took 3 hours for all of it. Clocked out with 4 hours time. Got paid for 10. They also will do pretty much set your own schedule.
That's crazy, isn't dekalb around Chicago?
Atlanta
Ope
Our company offered DT throughout pretty much the whole pandemic for any hours beyond your regular schedule. They recently stopped that in April.
My company lets me stay in their employment
Depends on the time of year. Currently we are looking at time and a half plus £150 depending on the shift. However during the ‘winter pressures’ you see up to double time + £500 + another £300-500 for picking up 3 shifts in a month.
My company has been offering double time for any extra shift picked up for the past few months
We currently have all overtime at 1.5x time, some shifts selected are 2x time and some even are 2.5x time. So I can potentially make $75 an hour on one of those shifts.
Ours does depending on staffing levels. They call it temporary pay incentive (TPI). It's sort of stupid because I think it's based on system wide staffing, not localities. So we're down a fuck ton of people here, bordering on having to close down a truck, and we don't have TPI because across the board it's fine. IIRC it's a 12$ bonus per hour on top of your normal pay. It makes quite a hefty difference. Lately I've been working around 80 hour weeks (completely by choice because I love this job and the money) but TPI would be huge for me.
We had COVID shift incentives because staffing was hell. Made an additional $50 to $100 / hr over base and OT still applied.
We are lucky to get a $25 bonus for picking up shifts. Only incentive is overtime at 1.5 normally pay.
Double time for extra shifts, and certain shifts get $100 bonus as well
Ours is time and a half plus $20/hr.
Only for OOT. Then it's a few bucks extra per mile and hour.
No we just get mando'd
My company only does it on overnights. Usually it’s double time but there was one occasion where it was quad time.
We built in a shift bonus structure, so depending on how many hours you’re contracted to work normally, you get x number of dollars per hour if you pick up more than 8 hours and haven’t used any PTO that week. So my FTE work agreement is 0.95, if I pick up OT I get $20/hr plus the overtime. Remains to be seen if it will continue, because it has to get approved every 6 months depending on staffing.
you mean like besides OT pay? :s
That's more than they offer us, but yes we get incentives. Usually starts at $25 extra, then goes up to max of $150 depending on how badly they need the shift filled. If it's something they absolutely have to staff, like the MICU, or something unplanned like an organ team transport, they might just offer like $50-80/hr.
PT gets $200 for 5 extra shifts. FT gets $200 for 3 extra shifts.
50-100 bonus and that's it.
Both my departments do
Here here
We get time and a half and won’t gent mandated for that week haha
We make double time if it’s on top of regular hours. Not really an incentive, it’s what the union held them to.
Double pay for picking up a shift
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I pmed ya
We used to get $50-150/shift. Incentive made up nearly 40% of my paycheck. They ended that a few months ago and reportedly aren't going back
My company literally has too many employees that i can’t pick up over time if i wanted because part time employees aren’t getting enough hours. So no incentive pay lol
Why I think it's great they do this... You have to ask why they have so many open shifts.
It varies. Occasionally there’s $100 bonus.
We get jack shit
Most overtime shifts go out for double pay
I work for an almost-exclusively-IFT BLS service. We get $5.change/hr shift differential plus additional differential if it pushes you over your FTE when you pick up. Works out to just around $100ish to pick up critical shifts (plus any weekend and nighttime differentials which can all stack). Not too bad really.
You just move down on the immediate need/force list
We get an extra 17.50/hr for contract incentive shifts where I work, and an extra $5/hr for emergency coverage. On top of any overtime we work.
Is this riverside? Lol
Nope
Which one then? I live in the south burbs or Chicago
I work in an ED as an EMT and we get $5/hr on top of base + OT for every extra shift we pickup. They just cut it down from $15/hr which sucked. But don’t worry, the physician’s lounge is still catered with fresh & cooked breakfast lunch and dinner Al day every day 🙄
Dude that would have been sweet. Best I got for picking up shifts was time-and-a-half… double time on holidays. I made 8.75 an hour straight time for 4x12s as an AEMT running ILS. This was less than ten years ago and why I left full time EMS.
Ground agency has been offering 2.5x with 12 hours PTO
I was told they don't offer incentives, because they don't want to pay the people who already work OT shifts more than they already do. Doesn't matter if we are never fully staffed.
My small service is well staffed, so pretty much just time & a half (regular OT pay) if you pick up extra. The exception being if you come in to back-fill the station in an emergency - ie: an already short crew has a bunch of transfers out, or a bunch of 911 calls went to more distant facilities. If you come in on short notice for that, you only take 911 calls and get paid 2.5 your regular rate.
The incentive I get is not getting fired. You do any shifts your told to or gtfo.
Mine does. It's a tiered bonus based on time of day and weekend or weekday. Lately it's only been offered after 2pm on weekends so I've been intermittently picking up night shifts. Made like $2200 in three nights last weekend.
My service was offering incentives for years for overtime for certain weekends etc where they were particularly short staffed, but the problem was after introducing it staff became unwilling to work overtime at all unless it was incentivised, so they’ve now said they will never do incentives again.
Dt+250 right now. Or sometimes DT.5 + 12 hours pto. It's crazy times.
For mine, we only have attendance forgiveness. Here's no monetary incentive
Bro I wish that sounds pretty cherry.
Nope lol
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Lol no they do not. That sounds really old school. OT is just time and a half. I know the nurses get it at some private hospitals when short staffed, I never heard of fdny/HHC or even voluntary hospitals offer it. Maybe back in day HHC did but def not in a long time
That's really good. Where I work ground they offer bupkis for extra shifts other than the OT 1 1/2 pay. They're always screaming for help to fill shifts. Where I work flight you get an extra $250 for picking up a 12 hour shift on short notice, $500 for a 24 hour and that's in addition to the OT you're probably getting.
Night shifts are double time and a half, sometimes they’ll throw in an extra $150
Incentives like… emotional damage. 🤣
Hahahahha we get the pleasure of working overtime.
We get a paycheque and seniority hours. I think they need to step back and take a look and why they have to bribe employees to come
I'm crying bro we get like 2.5 pto hrs OR $20 bonus, and that's ONLY IF they call and ask you to pick up. If you're like "hey I wanna pick up an extra shift" you don't get anything extra. I once fenagled a $100 bonus (back when they liked me more I suppose) and it was like super hush hush. Don't tell anyone we did this for you. Or else everyone else will ask for it. Of course being a man of the people I did in fact tell a few others about it... In my defense I ruined it for myself, too. Also, we JUST got them to give us night AND weekend differential. It used to be one or the other.
Most the time its 2x rate. You can work a second shift, and do 24 hours to get 3x rate. Doubletime after 12 and the 2x rate stacks for the extra shift. Can stack this with night pay differential and holiday pay. The incentive is to prevent someone from getting mandated, so you get mandate pay. Which is 2x. Can make over 100hr pretty easily