One of the top advantages of travel nursing cited by both travel nurses and agencies is the pay. It’s true that travel nursing pay packages are higher than permanent pay packages in many cases. However, this is not always the case. Sometimes, travel nursing compensation packages aren’t all that lucrative.

As a result, many travel nurses maintain “bottom line” requirements. If assignments don’t meet the compensation requirements, then they are passed over until an assignment that meets the requirements is offered. In this blog post, we’ll discuss some considerations for adopting this strategy and some of its advantages and disadvantages. Read more

As we’ve noted time and again on this blog, bill rates are the single most important variable in determining travel nursing pay. The bill rate is the hourly rate that agencies can charge their client hospitals for the travel nurse’s time.

There are many different categories of bill rates. The overtime category is one of the more complicated bill rate categories and we’ll cover it in detail here. Understanding the issues at play with overtime bill rates will help travel nurses understand the limitations faced by agencies when determining “extra hours” pay which will help travel nurses with their compensation negotiations. Read more