Re: What's your compensation for carrying a pager???

"Richard" <pager_boy_at_spamex.com> wrote in message news:eI6bc.9796$Ig.3374_at_pd7tw2no...
> My employer currently pays me $1/hour when I carry a pager. I have to
> carry the pager every fourth week. The problem is that my employer
> insists that I be available when I'm carrying the pager. So, for $1/hr
> they expect me to remain within pager range, remain sober, and be
> available to come to work. That really sucks on weekends. No going
> to the beach (out of pager range) or out to a friend's cottage (out of
pager
> range), etc. Declining to carry the pager is NOT an option.
>

We pay $100/week. That's generally 12 hours overnight, and 48 hours on the weekend.

So, I guess that's less than $1/hour.

We expect them to generally be within 15-30 minutes of a computer.

They don't need to come into work, they can work from home.

If any call takes an hour or more they also earn 1:1 comp time for those calls.

We are flexible though and permit folks to change shifts as often as they want (typically every other night it's a new person).

We only have 2 people currently carrying the page however, so it can get rough.

On the same token we don't get too many pages and most are resolved within 10 minutes.

> I'm curious what compensation others get and more importantly, what's
> your employers expectation of your availability when you're on-call?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
Received on Fri Apr 02 2004 - 16:28:35 CEST