Pay & Benefits

PAY RATES  back to top

The twelve hour shifts range from $665.00 per shift to $364.00 per shift.  The pay rate depends on the hospital you choose, the State in which the hospital is located, the hospital’s rate to us and your specific housing requirements. If you choose hospitals in the Southern States or Arizona or Nevada, the pay rates will go down because hospitals in these States have such low rates.  We pay Nurses based on what the hospital pays us.  If the hospital pays us more than others, we pass this on to our Nurses.  This is why there is such a range of pay rates per specific assignment.

Northern California pays the highest.  Southern California hospitals pay about $5.00 less per hour.  Assignments in Arizona and Nevada tend to be about $7.00 less per hour than Northern California and our hospitals in the South pay about $7.00 to $10.00 less per hour than Northern California.

DAILY OVERTIME is the law in California.  Do not let other agencies mislead you about this.  It does not matter where the agency is located, if you work in California, you are to be paid per California law.  For example, if the twelve hour shift rate is $665.00 – this is paid as the first eight hours at $47.50 per hour, the next four hours is overtime (x 1.5) which is $71.25 per hour.  We hear that Nurses are paid straight time for twelve hour shifts by some other agencies because the agencies tell the Nurses  that they do not have to pay per California law because the agency is not located in California.  Do not let this happen to you.  Overtime is over forty (40) hours per week in all States EXCEPT California. 

Your contract with us will be either three or four twelve hour shifts per week.  We encourage all of our Nurses to work extra in either their contracted hospital or in our other hospitals close to your assigned hospital.  When you work extra, your pay rate increases to the higher rate which is (depending on the hospital) from $40.00 to $52.50 per hour.  We also put your extra shifts on a separate check for your convenience.

OUR HOUSING OPTIONS   back to top

We offer three housing options - the choice is yours:

OPTION ONE:

Our standard housing package is the Deluxe one bedroom Oakwood Corporate Housing apartments .Click Here To View Apartments  WE OFFER 100% FREE AND PRIVATE HOUSING.  There are no housing deductions or any “hidden fees”.  See the Oakwood “link” to view your apartment.  They are lovely and our Nurses rave about their apartments.  We provide everything that we could think of to make you comfortable.  These are totally furnished with a separate kitchen, bedroom, living room and all utilities connected and paid.  They all have an assortment of kitchen appliances such as cookware, toaster, microwave, coffee pot, flatware, dishes, place settings, TV with basic cable, phone with answering machine, vacuum, all linens such as sheets, towels, bathroom and kitchen rugs and everything that we could think of that you might need.  Again, WE PAY 100% OF YOUR HOUSING.  Most of these have washers and dryers in the apartments and pools and gyms.

OPTION TWO:

If you wish to have the smaller efficiency apartments, you will be paid $1.75 more per hour.  These are usually in Marriott’s or Homestead Suites and again, are totally private and furnished with all amenities.  These have weekly maid service also.  These have pools and gyms but washers and dryers are in the complexes and not in the apartments.

OPTION THREE:

Many of our Nurses choose to do their own housing.  We are happy to help you arrange for this.  We pay you $2100.00 per month to pay for your Housing.  This is paid at $525.00 per week.

Please note that most of our housing options allow pets.

RENTAL CARS   back to top

We can have them available and waiting for you when you get off of the airplane. We provide complete maps to your housing and we remain on call for you with directions to assist you while you get settled in to your home away from home.

TRAVEL EXPENSES  back to top
We pay your airfare to and from your assignment or reimburse you $400 if you drive, paid as $200 to come and $200 to return home.

BENEFITS  back to top
Blue Shield Group coverage.

Paid vacation

Daily overtime and double time.

Weekly pay and direct deposit.

Free guaranteed deluxe private housing - all furniture, housewares, all kitchen appliances, linens, utilities, basic phone and cable TV included.

Paid vacation and bonus for holidays worked in addition to overtime for holidays.

Daily per diem and Travel Reimbursement

Free airline tickets to and from assignment.

Rental cars.

RN Licensure assistance.

Free CEU's under our BRN provider number.

4 to 26 week assignments with extensions available up to one year.

Immediate Health Insurance coverage (Blue Shield Group Health Plan). Coverage available for dependents and families.

All Malpractice and Worker's Compensation insurances covered at no cost.

All Federal and State payroll taxes paid.

Positions in all 50 states.

INSURANCE & TAXES  back to top
Agostini pays for your Malpractice Insurance and Worker's Compensation Insurance and all mandated Federal and State payroll taxes.

If you are "shopping around" please be careful; we have Nurses calling us every day who got slammed with taxes at the end of the year because their agency was not paying their payroll taxes.  Also, be sure that these other companies are paying for your Malpractice and Worker's Compensation Insurance.

BONUSES  back to top
We don't offer them. We feel that this practice of paying a lower rate during the assignment and then giving a bonus at the end of the assignment is insulting and manipulative to the Nurse.  It's a way of trying to insure that the contract will be completed; we prefer to trust the integrity of the Nurse and pay well during the assignment and not make the Nurse wait until the end of the assignment to "get the gravy".