Shift Differential Pay!

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

For those of you here who work the graveyard shifts, do you get shift differential pay? If so, how much? Is it a flat amount or a percentage of your hourly rate (if not salaried)? I think my company doesn't pay enough, and I'd like to see how it compares to other places. At my company, shift diff is only .50 per hour extra but it seems to me, I've seen shift diffs as high as 15% elsewhere. But .50/hr isn't even 2% for most folks here.

In short... just looking for a sampling of shift diff pay amounts, so I can lobby for an increase!

 

[I Saw OJ]

I work 12:30am to 9am

Pay is the same as everyone else.

 

[UltraPenguin]

My old company for the hourly wage workers, 5% 2nd shift (4PM to 12AM) and 10% for the 3rd shift (12AM to 8AM).

 

[boredhokie]

I get bothered less by the H1-B's at night, that's about the only overtime benefit for being salaried.

 

[02ranger]

I go in at 10PM and leave whenever my work is done and get 75 cents shift differential. It used to be 25, but they changed our shifts/duties around and changed the shift diff at the same time.

 

[KK]

10% for evenings and midnights.

 

[JRich]

15%

 

[rbV5]

We finally started getting a shift differential. 5%, 12 hour nights 7:30pm-7:30am for me.

 

[thirtythree]

$2/hr. EDIT: About 20% for most of us. The $2 differential is university policy for all jobs though, I think.

 

[BoomerD]

Depending on which contract in in place on a job, there are a couple of ways shift premium could be paid. On some jobs, (say 3 shifts/day) swing shift gets 8 hrs pay for 7-1/2 hrs work, (baiscally, you get paid for your lunch) and graveyard gets 8 hrs pay for 7 hrs work AND gets paid for lunch. On other jobs, 2nd shift gets a 15% pay differential for all hours worked, and still other contracts have BOTH the workd less hours AND shift differential. This is usually what the folks you see on Cal-Trans jobs in the night are getting. Next, there's tide work, where your hours are determined by the rising/falling tides, (which much of my work was) then there are special provisions for those hours worked before or after your regular starting time, (for me, it was always a minimum of time and a half, and usually double time) even if you don't work more than 8 hrs in that shift.

 

[FoBoT]

:laugh:

straight salary no matter when we work

 

[broon]

10% for second shift, 15% for third shift for both hourly and salary people if that is their designated shift.

 

[chambersc]

When I worked for Wal-Mart distribution center, the shift differential for the weekend was 10%.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Wal*Mart pays an extra $1 per hour for working third shift (11pm - 7:30am).

Also you get an extra $1/hr for working on Sunday.

 

[Squisher]

<--union autoworker. 5% for afternoons, 10% for midnights.

 

[chrisms]

$1.50/hour more for the entire length of the shift

 

[Slew Foot]

For my Locum Tenens work, I get about a 20%-30% bonus for night/weekends/holidays, works out to about $50/hr