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State RNs get big pay boo$t$ in Monroe County
By SHERRY HALBROOK
Most PEF Region 3 nurses who work in Monroe County are receiving a new $8,000 annual pay differential, effective last month. Increased shift pay will boost the total for some of them up to $11,000.
“The Region 3 Nurses Committee should be commended for its hard work in mobilizing and advocating for these differentials,” said PEF President Roger Benson. “The combination of a significant grassroots mobilization, combined with effective staff work again demonstrates the value of our coordinated efforts.”
These geographic salary differentials are set by the state Division of Classification and Compensation to aid in retention and recruitment for specific jobs and shifts at locations where the regular state pay is proved insufficient to compete in the labor market.
All of the new differentials are retroactive to August 4 for nurses on the state’s administrative payroll and to August 11 for those on the institutional payroll.
The new $8,000 basic differential applies to the following nursing titles on all shifts and at all state agency worksites in Monroe County (which includes Rochester): nurse 1, nurse 2 (including all parenthetics), infection control nurse, community mental health nurse, nurse 3 psychiatric, and nurse administrators 1 and 2 including all
parenthetics.
Technically, some smaller pay differentials were rescinded at the same time. These included the $1,200 evening and $1,600 night shift differentials for psychiatric nurse 3 and nurse administrator 2 positions. However, the state has informed PEF that no one in those titles has been working those shifts, so no one was receiving those pay boosts.
Plenty of people will qualify for new, bigger and broader shift differentials. They are $2,000 for working evenings and and $3,000 for working nights and apply to: nurse 1, 2 and 3, and nurse administrators 1 and 2, including all of these titles with
parenthetics.
“We know these pay raises are very well deserved and have been a long time in coming,” Benson said. “PEF is glad to see these nurses finally receive them, but the union also recognizes that such piecemeal solutions are inadequate to address systemwide shortfalls. That’s why we must continue to press for the across-the-board improvements in pay and working conditions that all of our nurses and other direct-care health professionals deserve.”
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