The £25 ceiling
June 17, 2008
by Shaun Hockey
Why do locum pharmacists ask for £25+2? There seems to have been a glass ceiling at £25 per hour since the fallow year of 2000. I’m not sure why locums started to add travel time instead of increasing the rate to £30, £35 or above, but I believe that as locums, we have shop ourselves in the foot.
Human nature means that people don’t like paying for a service they don’t receive e.g. travel time. After all would you pay a plumber 2 hours extra pay because they had travelled 50 miles to get to your house? Of course you wouldn’t. They don’t mind paying a premium for a service and we have found pharmacies wil pay £30 or even £35 per hour for a good locum. However bring up the subject of travel time and the shackles come up on the back of pharmacy owners and area coordinators necks.
I’ d like to hear other locums views on this subject.
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Sri Kanaparthy | June 18, 2008 at 6:54 pm
I would completely agree that locums should not be asking for travel time. Instead the hourly rate should be 30-35 depending on the abilities of the locum and the needs of the pharmacy.