r/Residency • u/Pedsgunner789 PGY2 • 2d ago

VENT Call stipends are a scam

Just submitted my call shifts for reimbursement last month, and I calculated that the average pay I had while on call was $6.80CAD/hr, which has been illegal in my province since October 1, 1995. That’s before I was born.

I don’t claim to be some kind of hero but I do think I deserve to be paid the same for being up all night trying to stop patients from dying, as the coffee shop barista who was up all night preventing me from dying.

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u/MontyMayhem23 2d ago

Is your call stipend any different than your normal stipend or are you just saying the hourly rate for your call weeks is criminally low when averaged out?

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u/Pedsgunner789 PGY2 2d ago

The second one.

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u/MontyMayhem23 1d ago

We don’t get paid extra for call in the US 😭 but when you average the hours out for a month spent on call it’s really on par with minimum wage so I feel ya.