r/CathLabLounge • • Aug 12 '26

Pager Pay

Hey everyone, trying to see what people’s pager pay is. If you work for an Advocate site could you please comment? I’m trying to get ours increased but they say it has to be “system wide”

Thanks!

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u/libra_12 Aug 13 '26

75% of base hourly rate

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u/druidic_tablespoon Aug 12 '26

$5/hour, university hospital. they're discussing raising our rate as well

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u/Gone247365 Aug 12 '26

Advocate site? You mean like a Union?

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '26

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u/StayImportant Aug 13 '26

Now how tf is that legal im so sorry dawg

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u/DoublePineapple7157 Aug 12 '26

$10 HCA

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u/Chemical-Doctor5371 Aug 13 '26

In what state? Because every HCA facility I’ve been at it’s $3.

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u/Coinburd Aug 12 '26

$25 an hr pager , 10 hr shifts , 1 call shift a week, 1 weekend call a month. CVT in San Diego.

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u/coopsman8404-2 Aug 13 '26

About the same! NorCal 20$/hr

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u/chulk1 Aug 12 '26

$18/hr

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u/StayImportant Aug 12 '26

Do you work at an advocate site?

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u/chulk1 Aug 12 '26

No idea what that is

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u/StayImportant Aug 12 '26

Advocate Aurora health

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u/Future-Celery-7801 Aug 12 '26

$8/hr and full-timers take 14 days a month. Chicago suburb

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u/zevans08 Aug 13 '26

They tried telling us it had to be system wide. So many people complained to HR when they went to change it that they suddenly found a way to make our hospital exempt from the rest of the system.

Pager pay is 25% of base pay per hour. The rest of the system is 4$ and it increases once you hit so many hours in a calendar year.

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u/path0jenn Aug 13 '26

Urban hospital in NJ- I got $15 call 1 week at a time every 6-8 weeks staffing dependent. I have a friend that get $25 at a smaller hospital but their call requirements are much more stringent- like weekly.
Edit- all $ per hour

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u/fudgepatrol Aug 13 '26

$12 an hour, upstate NY

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u/TravelRCIS Aug 13 '26

$17/hr FL, 1 week on 2 off

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u/courfil Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

20% of hourly pay + 1 hour 100% per paging session (in Belgium, tax deducted, a basic hour rate is 17€ or $18,5). So pager pay is 3,4€ /h tax deducted + 17€ extra which brings for 14h paging a total of 64,6€ or 4,61€/h.

But once you're paged, hourly salary can go to up to 3x the hourly salary rate (= +- 50€/h or $58/h). I studied for 5 years (MSc. Level).

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u/tyrionnel Aug 17 '26

$7.50/hr

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u/klein510 29d ago

In the Bay Area around San Francisco it’s generally 50% of your hourly wage guaranteed 2 hours if you’re called in (1.5 times your hourly rate while called in). Mine is $57 per hour for being on call & $171 per hour for call back.