Lol thanks idk why either, just answering a question

The more your hourly rate is the more you pay in taxes. The money travelers make comes from their untaxed stipends. For instance, I’m at a hospital now where my hourly rate is 40$. About what a normal seasoned staff nurse would make out of state. However, I get housing stipends every week that are completely untaxed because I’m technically paying to live in 2 different locations (my actual physical house in Pittsburgh that I pay for and the cost of my rental here in Philly). UPMCs internal travel does not do weekly stipends, it’s 1 time for the entire length of your stay at 1 hospital. Which is why it’s a rip off and better to just do agency travel.

I don’t recommend doing their internal travel. I left Upmc to do agency travel, one of my friends did their internal program. The pay seems nice (85$ per hour) but they tax the shit out of it, you don’t get to pick which hospital they send you to, you’re only at each hospital 6 weeks before they can move you again, and for housing stipends, you get a 1 time stipend that they tax. So after everything you still only come out making about the same as staff.

Jokes on you it’ll be another Upmc building