Echo29 Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 (edited) Hi All! Looking for some thoughts on an urgent care offer in northern NJ. Multi specialty practice based urgent care. Mix of acuity. We can get stat CTs. $64/hr = 133120 per year Hourly not salary 160 hours PTO 0 hours CME days $1500 CME Mix between 12hr (week day 8A-8P) and 9hr (8A-5P) shifts 4% match 401k 5% annual bonus Approx 20-30 patient's per day I have 5 years experience as a PA Thanks in advance! ~E Edited November 11, 2019 by Echo29 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sas5814 Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 i don't know cost of living in the area so my comments are qualifiied. 160 hours of PTO and no sick or CME days is a bit lean. I walked into my UC job with 240 hours and 40 for CME. Then there is odd stuff like unlimited pay for jury duty. 3 days bereavement for loss in the family. Things like that. $1500 for CME is pretty low particularly since they don't want to give you the hours for CME. 64$/hr may be reasonable given your years but again I don't know the COL. I started at 72 and I'm somewhere near 78 now but I have 30 years experience. If you are hourly and not salaried do you get OT after 40 hours a week? That can add up if you want to do the work. My first year here I made about an extra 50k in OT. I don't want to work that hard any more. You also didn't mention health and dental insurance. 20-30 patients a day may be the average but is there a limit? Trust me...this can be a big deal. When cold season hit and half the staff quits (happened to me) and that number turns into 60...what will they do? If it isn't written down...it isn't real. If you go forward make sure all the terms are spelled out somewhere. A verbal agreement is worth the paper its written on. Good luck! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogLovingPA Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 Agree the CME allowance is a little lean (do your license and DME fees come out of that?). But depending on whether health insurance is included, I personally don't think that's a bad offer. I live in an area of the country though where it seems (based on what people post on the forums) pay is a bit lean for PA's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo29 Posted November 12, 2019 Author Share Posted November 12, 2019 Thank you for the reply and input! They offer dental, vision and health insurance (all in is aprox $210-220 per month which would cover my sig other). Coverage for short and long term disability insurance, as well as life insurance at no additional cost. They do cover license, DEA, CDS and one professional society due (i.e AAPA, or PAFT). Will pay for a board review course one year out to re-certification. 3 days bereavement. No mention of time off for jury duty (will have to look into it). Uptodate subscription included Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator ventana Posted November 12, 2019 Moderator Share Posted November 12, 2019 20 hours ago, Echo29 said: Hi All! Looking for some thoughts on an urgent care offer in northern NJ. Multi specialty practice based urgent care. Mix of acuity. We can get stat CTs. $64/hr = 133120 per year Hourly not salary 160 hours PTO 0 hours CME days $1500 CME Mix between 12hr (week day 8A-8P) and 9hr (8A-5P) shifts 4% match 401k 5% annual bonus Approx 20-30 patient's per day I have 5 years experience as a PA Thanks in advance! ~E Hard to say Cost of living in your area versus how many PA? Also, realize a doc would be getting 250k + to do this job and a lot better bennies Yup getting tired of doing doc job for 50% of the pay..... CME -MUST be in there at $2500 and Paid time off CME - just insulting to not be Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
logos Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 Seems like a reasonable offer. Prob some room for a raise in time. I would check in with the PAs that work there to see if they’re happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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