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zilla:

--- Quote from: hillbilly on Dec 20, 2008, 10:59 ---Anyone know the shift schedule For PSEG Salem site.I'm a new member to the forum and like all the info. Most of my experience has been in the C.T. and Combined Cycle field.Offered a job as an N.E.O. in Salem and was wondering what I was getting into.Any info. would be appreciated.

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Last I knew they were on a 5 shift rotation (12 hour) with a 7 day off.  4 weeks on shift, one in training and no relief week.  I don't have a copy of the schedule though.  1.5X for OT, or 2.0 for OT on your last scheduled day-off of the week.  I worked there as an NEO straight out of the Navy. 

Any job is a good job, but hopefully you're an east coast guy and used to that attitude and type of area.  Very in your face and confrontational back when I worked there in the 90's.  Pretty much everyone hated each other and heavy union, "we don't want to work if we don't have to" type attitude.  Not my cup of tea and being a midwest guy, I got the heck out and went elsewhere.  If nothing else, it pays well and there was lots of OT if you wanted it.

hillbilly:
thanks for the info.

Already Gone:
I used to get less than a dollar an hour premium for afternoon or midnight shifts.  It was NOT subject to time and a half or double-time.  Straight time for the first 8 of the scheduled workdays (except Sunday which was time and 1/4).  Overtime was time and a half on those days (time and 3/4 on Sunday).  We got time and a half on the sixth day (time and 3/4 if Saturday was day 6 and double time if you worked over 8 on a Saturday day 6) and double time on day 7 (double and 1/4 if Sunday was day 7).  We got paid 8 straight on holidays plus time and a half for working the first 8 and double time after 8.
We also got 5% above our pay grade for working at the nuclear site until they came up with new pay scales just for the nuke plant.  On a regular week of rotating shift, there was a hidden extra hour (40 minutes at time and a half) for the week to accommodate turnover time, but it never showed on the pay stub or the timesheet.  We just got the money in the check except for vacation and training weeks.

That was 10 years ago, but backshift differential was never a big part of the paycheck.

UncaBuffalo:
Shift Differential = $1.65/hour

Plus, if Sunday is an assigned shift, there is a 35% Sunday Differential.

These are cumulative...assigned Sunday backshift = Pay Rate + 35% + $1.65  :)

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