How is On Call handled at your Job?

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Curious to hear from techs who have on call as part of their job duty. My employer is converting to an on call system where techs will be on call for the entire week once every 5-6 weeks. Pay will be normal hourly wage as well as $35/day for being on call regardless of whether you have to take any calls.

To me this sounds like a ridiculously low compensation for having to be available 24/7 for 7 days.

Would love to hear what others are doing.

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For us, we have 2 on calls. One primary one backup. Primary, no matter if calls come in, get an additional $240 or something on top of their paycheck, while backup get like $150. If we do get calls, it’s OT and port to port. So depending if you’re primary or backup you get 240 or 150 on top of your regular check plus if there were any after hours calls.

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