Describe two schedules to see the shifts, the drive and the extra work, hour by hour.
Three 12-hour shifts are 36 hours scheduled, but the week they take is longer: with a 40-minute drive each way they take 40 hours door to door. Charting or report that runs past the shift adds more.
It depends on your drive and your days off. Four 10s add a commute day and leave three days off; three 12s leave four days off with longer days. Count both door to door before you choose.
Put both schedules side by side as door-to-door hours a week, then compare the nights and weekends each asks for, and how often the posted schedule changes after it is made.
Yes. Describe any pattern: 8s, 10s, 12s, clinic days, call or per diem. Each schedule keeps its own hours, and anything you don't know yet stays marked as not stated.
Your week, side by side
Example
Offer A pays $5 more for each hour of your week and leaves you 4 more days off a month.
Offer A · 3 × 12h nights · 40 min drive
40h
36h shifts · 4h drive · $40 an hour
Offer B · 4 × 10h days · 30 min drive
46h
40h shifts · 4h drive · 2h extra work · $35 an hour
Hours door to door each week, and the week’s pay over every one of them.
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