Travel pay is typically a blend: a taxable hourly rate plus non-taxed stipends for housing and meals. Recruiters usually quote the blended weekly figure because it is larger. Ask for the breakdown - taxable base, housing stipend, meal…
Travel pay is typically a blend: a taxable hourly rate plus non-taxed stipends for housing and meals. Recruiters usually quote the blended weekly figure because it is larger. Ask for the breakdown - taxable base, housing stipend, meal stipend, travel reimbursement - because the split affects your taxes, your mortgage application and what happens if hours are cut.
Non-taxed stipends are only legitimately non-taxed if you are maintaining a genuine tax home and duplicating expenses. If you do not have one, those stipends may be taxable income and the liability is yours, not the agency's. This is an area where travellers get caught years later. Talk to a tax professional who knows travel healthcare specifically - general advice is often wrong here.
Cancellation terms, including whether the facility can cancel with little notice and what you receive if it does. Guaranteed hours and what happens if you are called off. Floating expectations - which units you can be moved to. And the termination terms if you leave early, which can include repaying travel and housing. Read these before the pay rate.
Verify whether your target state participates in the Nurse Licensure Compact for practical or vocational nurses and whether your licence travels. Where it does not, allow for processing time - contracts have fallen through because a licence arrived after the start date. Start that process before you commit.
Primary regulations and standards referenced above. Where a standard is published commercially it is named in full rather than linked to a copy.