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Tina, tough to say if you are getting jipped. If you are talking about packages where they are housing you, then you may be doing fine. I mean the $1500-$1600 bottom line (preferably higher) as a starting point if you are taking the housing stipend and finding your own housing (which I think you usu...

No problem guys, see you out on the open road soon!

James

Since those older posts, I have started living in a camper. I am in month 5 on Martha's Vineyard (Massachusetts), and you are right, it can get really hot in the summer in a camper - good new, lots of specialty fans for campers and really efficient AC units built in. Our camper is a 2002, and the AC...

Sam, Good question and thoughts. The only thing I can say definitively is yes, you would get insurance through your home state - your tax home state. Remember with tax home: you live there full time, you just work other places for months at a time. The in-network/out-of-network answer probably varie...

Great post Roberts. Thanks for sharing - I recently clarified with my tax guy about the too much tax free pay, because I had been told that in the past as well. He said it was much more of a red flag for the recruiting agency, not so much for us - semantics. 3 PTAs sounds like a rough deal for even ...

You're off to a good start with having a home base at your mothers. Drivers license there, voter registration, car registration, and bank account located there help too. The initial advice you got probably takes some liberties with interpretation of the rules, the second advice you got would make yo...

Awesome! Welcome back to the fold! If anything, you left during a low point for traveling PT pay. In the last 2 years, the market has really improved. I think $1900/wk is a really good paying assignment. There are atypical assignments or specific regions that will pay more, but that's pretty darn go...

You're right. That recruiter is BS'ing you... big time. Dump her. Thanks for sharing the mean wages link. ....buuut, don't let the mean wages skew your expectations too high either. Remember, that includes managers in hospitals and larger corporate outpatient chains that are very comfortably making ...

We are usually able to negotiate start dates pretty close to each other. Or if one person can't start until a week or two later, negotiate either a shorter contract for them or a longer contract for the other. I think most recruiters are open to working with you to create start/end dates that work w...

Sorry! I thought I had replied to this a couple days ago... Anyways, I think I got you your answer over on your other post!

Sorry again,

James

I'll give you my quick answer here, but link to the two blogs below for a more thorough answer. The first link is specific to new grad pay, the second is just about pay in general. And I would love the hear what other travel PTs are making, but I have talked with a few traveler friends about their r...

I did some research on the Europe temp work thing a few years back. I'll start you out with the hurdles I found before giving you the silver lining: 1. I was told the English speaking countries were tough to find employment in, because they are English speaking, therefor you get internationals from ...

Sure thing, you got it!

James

Andrew, I have heard of people doing this, there's one guy I know personally that did it too, but I find the whole thing wildly unnecessary. I have done a couple assignments independently, not using a recruiter, and the job I return to annually for 5 months of the year is direct with a hospital. The...

I'll shoot you an email, Casey!

James