Everything travel nurses need to know about travel nursing pay, including negotiating, evaluating, and comparing travel nursing pay packages, and tax free money. There are over 60 articles in this blog category!
We often see travel nurses ask, “What is the average bill rate for a travel nurse?” In this article, we’ll dissect two reports that provide insight on the average bill rate for travel nurses. We’ll also take a look at how knowing the answer to this question may or may not be useful so you can approach this topic with confidence. Read more
Travel nursing pay packages are complicated. The fact that different recruiters quote their pay packages in different ways adds to the complexity. In fact, the variances make travel nursing pay packages so complicated that we’ve seen seasoned executives at healthcare staffing companies get confused by them. So, in this article, we’ll breakdown 8 different travel nursing pay packages from Facebook so you can approach pay quotes with confidence. Read more
Tax-free reimbursements are one of the fundamental characteristics of travel nursing pay packages. Of course, the IRS has rules that companies must follow when they pay these tax-free reimbursements. Some industry tax experts say that tying tax-free reimbursements to hours worked is a violation of these rules. Meanwhile, most, if not all, travel nursing companies do just that. However, recent court cases bring the prevailing wisdom into question. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at the debate over whether employers tying tax-free reimbursements to hours is a violation of IRS guidelines. Read more
The guidelines pertaining to taxable wages in the travel nursing industry are opaque. Of course, this leads to controversy. Some agencies pay higher taxable wages and proportionally lower non-taxable reimbursements. They assert that lower taxable wages will result in a “red flag” with the IRS. Other agencies pay lower taxable wages and proportionally higher non-taxable reimbursements. They assert there is nothing wrong with doing so and sometimes refer to the “red flag” issue as a myth. In this article, we’ll provide a brief recap on taxable wages in the travel nursing industry and take a close look at the issue of “red flags”. Read more
As a travel nurse, there is a very good chance that you will work in the state of California at one point or another. The state has many appealing travel destinations and the large population ensures that demand for travelers is typically quite high. As a result, it’s important to know about issues occurring in the state that could have an impact on travel nurses. So, in this blog post, we’ll take a look at 10 things to know about California’s new Paid Sick Leave law. Read more
Many of the benefits that nurses enjoy as permanent employees are hard to come by for travel nurses. Paid sick leave is one such example; you’d be hard-pressed to find a dozen travel nursing companies that offer this benefit. So when Travel Nurse across America (TNAA) announced that they are now offering a paid sick leave benefit, we contacted them to get the details. We’ll share those details and more about paid sick leave for travel nurses in this blog post. Read more
There’s a lot of mystery surrounding how much money travel nurses make. Every now and then, a story pops up describing how some travel nurse somewhere is making hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. Stories like this tend to bolster the belief that travelers make tons of money. These stories also make some travelers wonder if they’re doing something wrong by not earning these fabled amounts. In this blog post, we’ll critically analyze one such story in an effort to decipher the details. Read more
