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I have mixed feelings about the travelers. I have family that works in the medical field and I am constantly told how muc more they make above the regular staff. Not only that, paying them so much more is draining the budgets of hospital departments. At some point the hospitals will need to end the use of travelers or, at least, cut down on the amount of time they are used. It simply isn't sustainable to employee such people at high rates.

Did they also go to a (nursing) school in a cheaper, rural area?

> That's not enough for Everett, but that's pretty good in rural areas.

That is awful anywhere in the nation. Any person doing any job in any area whatsoever.

Nurse: I want 25$ an hour or I quit

Hospital: Best I can do is 20$

Nurse: puts on hat I'm a traveling nurse

Hospital: We can pay you 150$ an hour

When the state changed what are exempt roles, some of my dad's colleagues became hourly and made absolute bank in overtime. Overtime is how cops make so much money (some over $300k)

It really depends. Usually there are busy times and slack times. In tech, if you're only doing 30, that just means you're a slacker.

That's not enough for Everett, but that's pretty good in rural areas. You can't really judge salary if there's not context of where you are. It's like teacher and cop salaries are pretty good in Seattle but Texas is a whole other world.

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This is where my soul is at peace.

These photos give me hope. Moving from Florida to be near our kids in Seattle. Absolutely beautiful!

Wow $20 whole dollars per hour!? Does that come with a top hat and monocle or do they have to provide their own?

How could anyone get tired of that view. It is gorgeous.

Snoqualmie falls since it isn't labeled.

It is interesting who always gets asked to make sacrifices, when times are tough... and when times are not tough. After all our beneficent overlords' record profits require record sacrifices from the lowly serfs.

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I would question how many of the jobs your mention here are the minimum exempt salary versus just being above the minimum salary.

"In my experience" people receiving salary are usually management or administration. Retail managers, HR, administrators, assistant administrators, etc.

These would be the majority of the workers covered by this, a lot closer to blue collar with a white clip.

Bah I wish is was that much. Not even close.

Part of why I cannot wait to move!

> If you take a job that pays the exempt salary, you can damn well guarantee you will be working overtime. Positions like that have shit like 6 day requirements or 50 hour requirements.

Not in my experience. Lots of white collar office or government type jobs do not require more than 40 hours per week. Hell, if you count the time people spend on Reddit, they are probably 30 hour per week jobs.

Either way the lack of people jumping up and down to become nurses or nursing assistants is all the proof that whatever the pay is or was is not enough comparable to that of other options in the market.

That is the minimum salary threshold for employees to be exempt from overtime pay.

If you take a job that pays the exempt salary, you can damn well guarantee you will be working overtime. Positions like that have shit like 6 day requirements or 50 hour requirements.

If you are not overtime exempt, the actual minimum salary is minimum wage × 40 hours per week, and all time over 40 hours is paid as overtime.

So, for nurses, this is a DNS/DON type salary where they are on-call 24/7 for their job.

Though, smart nurses set up their contract that they get an hourly rate for covering thr floor.

https://www.lni.wa.gov/forms-publications/F700-207-000.pdf

Working in a hospital, especially patient facing role, is not comparable to a retail or fast food or hospitality job that one can do in their spare time during the week.

I assume the people we want as nurses and NAC are more career minded, not to mention the higher stress working environments and odd hours, nights, weekends, and holidays. So presumably, those people are weighing their options at finding a nice salaried job for $65k, or working in a hospital for $20 to $30 per hour.

And if we are not going to pay them more than a standard salaried office 8 to 5 Mon to Fri job, then watch all the better workers go do that.

Washington State minimum wage for 2023 is $15.74/hour × 40 hours/week x 52 weeks/year = 32,739.20/year.

Now, I will argue that $20/hour isn't going to be a good pull for NACs when Walmart or McDonald's are offering the same.

But I have no idea from which orifice your number was produced.

Even $30/hour is not enough when WA minimum salary is $65k in 2023.

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