Thank you so much for your reply. Your information is very helpful. Your rates are a much wider range than what I've seen or expected. Region seems to play somewhat of a role. For outpatient, I get offers ranging from 100.00 to 110.00 an hour in the Midwest. In NY state, I was sent an offer for 130.00 an hour for an outpatient clinic. I refuse to work in NY or CA due to laws and lawsuits. My PD trained in NY and laughed when I asked him about being sued saying it wasn't if you got sued, but when in NY, which is ridiculous for FM.
For hospitalist for a PRN job I was offered 167.00 an hour, but remember as PRN there is no housing, travel, etc. The location is in the Midwest. In TN and KY I've seen hospitalist for 150.00-160.00 with travel and housing included. These were all without required coverage for ICU and only adults. Night shifts were only offering maybe 10.00 more per hour.
I was mainly thinking I was underpaid because of an assignment where the recruiter promised I would not be working in a COVID 19 unit. Well as soon as I got to the job, they started training me to work in their COVID 19 unit. I was upset that my rate wasn't higher considering my exposure.
I was on another forum and saw a nurse posting about how all of her offers were for greater than 120.00 an hour with travel and housing covered, which irritates me given I have much more training. These locums agencies are making money hand over fist off physicians. I read that the locum agency tries to budget to spend less than 50% of their budget on physician pay, housing, travel and transportation. The rest is all profit.
I don't trust the recruiter at one locums agency that I worked, especially after the COVID unit situation. I've tried to keep things strictly professional but the person tries to talk to me like I'm a friend. I also felt like this person was not showing me jobs I wanted, but rather showing me job that would make the agency the most money. I started working with a different agency because this recruiter is more respectful with a good balance of friendliness.
I talked to an IM friend a few weeks ago and he was saying IM residents were being offered 200.00 -300.00 an hour for hospitalist jobs that included ICU coverage. That is insane to me.
Prior to doing locums I reached out to old attendings and the consensus was I was going to make crazy money. Most of these jobs, especially outpatient aren't even above the 240K a year, which is what I would make if I signed a contract with a clinic where I live. That 240K includes RVU based bonuses. I was under the impression that I would be compensated above average because I'm not getting retirement, health insurance or any other benefits.
Needless to say, I've had a very rude awakening. Based on what you're saying, I should be much more thankful.