What is your compensation/benefit/schedule package working in ER?

[familygal]

Looking into ER jobs (actually got an offer yesterday!!!) For the most part, my previous jobs have been pretty straightforward with regards to: salaried position, set # of weeks for time off, mostly set schedule (including weekends), benefits, etc. I understand that ER employment is much different. This offer has a baseline hourly rate x 6 months, then after that it's a % of collections.

 

Just wondering, in general, how are other ER PAs compensated? Hourly rate or % of collections (and what is the %)?

Do you get $ and time off for CME?

Do you get PTO?

How many hours do you work/month?

 

Thanks!

[SoCalPA]

I am not a PA yet and I cannot even begin to answer your specific question. However, what I have done in the past when entertaining offers is to seek other offers from a similar employer. See what other employers might offer you so you can establish somewhat of a baseline. Also, that has helped me to feel that I wasn't stuck accepting whatever any one employer offered me.

[ventana]

I was a flat hourly of $56 (had some bogus RVU bonus program that no human could make)

 

I thin we all should have s base salary and RVU, patient seen, department productivity bonus as well

 

others can attest to the actual rates at ER

 

I get 65/hr as a per diem in ER (75 for overnights)

[True Anomaly]

I'm probably in one of the few places where both the docs and the PA's have a straight salary and absolutely no RVU/bonus structure. Our CME is also very poor- $600/year. At least license and DEA is paid for. No built in vacation- we have PTO that caps out at 350 hours, and have to draw from that for vacation.

 

All that said, for the region I make a decent salary (all ill say is its below $100K), and I only work 36 hours/week. Many of the docs work more hours than I do.

[True Anomaly]

that would be very rare on the west coast.

most doc groups have docs working 12-14 eight hr shifts/mo or at most 12 12s.

no doc in our group works more hrs than a typical pa. we all work 160-200+ hrs/mo while most of the docs work <125 hrs.

 

I'm sure the reason our group is the way it is has a lot to do with being part of a very large ER physician residency program (4-year program with 15 residents/year at Level 1 trauma center/stroke/cardiac cath....plus our 2 ER PA residents a year :)

[browndog]

Full time position is 60/hr with benefits and bonus (figure in bonus and aprox 66/hr). PRN at two other EDs are both 65/hr.

[Derbingle]

Here in the SW, Base $68 hr for day shift. More for evenings, $71, even more for weekends and nights makes it $80/hr. Can work as little or as much as you want in a month, most work max of 18 shifts, i work 15 shifts. No paid time off, just request days off when you want and get them. Provide Health, dental, vision disability, medical savings, 2000cme bucks, 401k no match, extra retirement plan offered as well. looking around at different places looks llike most places are trying to pay 50-55.... If they matched 401k would be workth making less hourly.

[G. Davenport]

You said, "This offer has a baseline hourly rate x 6 months, then after that it's a % of collections."

 

I caution that it should be on percentage of billing not collections. There is a big difference and in the collections option you are penalized if you are stuck with Pts who have low pay insurance or no pay.

 

You shouldn't be put in that position. If you are be sure to select only patients with good insurance :-).