This may necessarily be the best idea, but in working towards a viable approach to on-call benefits this is what we came up with at the company I work at:
168 hours in a week - 40 hours regular salary pay = 128 hours. Pay minumum wage (6.85 on Ontario) for 128 hours, muliply by 52 weeks gives you a yearly salary. This is then subsequently split between persons sharing on-call duties. So:
128*6.85*52=45593.60
Since there's 4 persons rotating on-call duties, they each get 45593.60/4=11396.40 included in their yearly salary and paid each pay period accordingly. As technicians are added and removed to the rotation, payment is recalculated accordingly and adjusted at the beginning of each pay period.
It works out quite well - you're looking at approximately 475-ish extra per pay period (before taxes, paid twice monthy) - and volume ranges from once or twice a week for calls, to several times per night.
No complaints so far:)
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This may necessarily be the best idea, but in working towards a viable approach to on-call benefits this is what we came up with at the company I work at: 168 hours in a week - 40 hours regular salary pay = 128 hours. Pay minumum wage (6.85 on Ontario) for 128 hours, muliply by 52 weeks gives you a yearly salary. This is then subsequently split between persons sharing on-call duties. So: 128*6.85*52=45593.60 Since there's 4 persons rotating on-call duties, they each get 45593.60/4=11396.40 included in their yearly salary and paid each pay period accordingly. As technicians are added and removed to the rotation, payment is recalculated accordingly and adjusted at the beginning of each pay period. It works out quite well - you're looking at approximately 475-ish extra per pay period (before taxes, paid twice monthy) - and volume ranges from once or twice a week for calls, to several times per night. No complaints so far :)