What does everybody get for shift differentials for off shifts /  weekends / Sundays / overtime supplemental ? 

Does it make it worthwhile to work the off shift at your workplace and do you think it helps or hinders (or has no effect) with retention on your shift?

I am still a student.  I had a question regarding salary.  How much does a starting MLT make at your place of work.

Yes,  the shift differential can make a big difference. 

Eves=15%

Nights=20%

Weekends(Days)15%(Eves)30% and (Nights) 35%

I am very against percentages for shift differentials. Since they are paid to compensate for working an off shift I do not think lower paid people should be penalized just because they make less pay. All folks from lab to housekeeping should make the same shift diff.

At my hospital we do not have eveing shift diff. Night shift diff is considered from 7 pm to 7 am and is $4. Weekend shift diff is $2. Both of these are per hour. I hope they never go to percentage of salary differentials.

Sharon:  I see your point about fairness, but there may be a good reason for using percentages.  I've worked in places where the older, more experienced techs only worked days.  There were so many of them that they did not even have to work weekend days very often.  They also tended to have the higher pay.  It seems like a percentage shift diff would entice some of them to help with 2nds and 3rds.  This would be good in lots of ways, including making day shift opportunities available for younger/newer techs.  Just a thought.  Grace

Pay and offer as much as you may want, BUT I am willing to bet that 99% of those day shifters wouldn't even nibble at the opportunity to go back to evenings, overnights or weekends.  THINK how long it took many of them to get to where they are now.  Why would they give it up to take a shift that it constantly understaffed, overworked and underappreciated.  

On day shift, they are driving the two seat convertible on their way to retirement; why would they want to go back to driving the 1979 station wagon on the off shifts?  I would give up all my (measly) shift differentials, sign-on bonuses and any other incentives to have waking work hours back again. 

Many of the facilities around here hardly make it worth it to even walk in the door to work evenings or nights.  Management claims it is because it is "What the market supports in this area.", which may be true.  I am talking anywhere from $0.50 (yeah!) to around $1.75 extra per hour for off shifts.   With these pennies, tell me again, why anybody would gratiously give up their cushy seat on days to go to overnights for the rest of eternity?