For my full-time day gig, we (err, they) get compensated ~$200 for the week they carry the pager. It's not quite #2 because you do get more pay if your on-call time includes a holiday, for example. It is a very fair system IMO.
As a consultant I include monitoring as part of my support, but there's no additional fee unless I need to go onsite at which time I charge 150% of my normal onsite rate - in my contracts it's "Emergency onsite support". None of my clients require 24x7 so I am never woke up by the monitoring systems. Alerting consists of text messages going to my phone which does not beep when a message comes in. At my last day job it was #1. Dave From: Durf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 8:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: After-hours work Hey all, Taking a little informal poll about compensation for after hours / weekend works. This is mostly geared at consultants, so if you're an onsite IT guy, please indicate. ---- If you work after-hours on-call, or are expected to carry the beeper, how are you compensated? 1. None, just man up and be an IT cowboy and glad you have a job. 2. Flat fee for being on-call. 3. Overtime or time-and-a-half bonus for hours actually worked. 4. Straight hourly at my normal rate 5. Flex time - no extra compentation, but I come in late the next day / take a day off later in the week. Thanks all. Yes, I'm on the beeper this weekend (OK, there's no actual beeper) so it's on my mind. :) -- Durf -- -------------- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
