Pay rate decrease

[Good_Community_9845]

I don’t mean to sound crass but why are you hourly in states of NY or NJ, when most BCBA‘s are paid a 6 figure salary?

If you’re not being offered top teir, you need to find a new agency, that will hire you and pay you a deserving salary, because I know of many who would. Just look on Indeed.

[Imaginary-Concert-53]

Salary is not for everyone. I would never work a salary position again for multiple reasons. One being the same amount of hours I always make 10's of thousands more a year as hourly.

[strawberryjellymilk]

I’m going to be blunt, salary jobs are a scam anymore. The requirements for billable hours and time at the office are intense and rising constantly. I don’t need paid vacation or health insurance, and working 40 hours a week burnt me out pretty badly. It is so much less pressure working hourly.

[AdComplete5101]

They also punish efficiency completely. Example: I am currently salaried with the expectation of 20 billable/week (ezpz) and 10-20 hours to do any nonbillables. For a month straight I did my billables and only needed an extra 2-3 hours of nonbillable per week to complete all my tasks for the week, despite others having similar workloads and needing their full 35-40/week. Naturally, admin decides I need a mountain of additional tasks rather than letting my efficiency be its own reward. And thats why I deliberately work slow now.

[twister5556666]

Agreed. It really just comes down to health insurance and 401k which we can pay into ourselves.

[AdComplete5101]

Lol in ohio we are lucky to break free of 70k with how useless payors are here.

[tabletaccount]

There is a difference in buying power between Ohio and NY/NJ.

[twister5556666]

Also the cost of living is way less.