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What's a fair compensation for being on-call?

What's this blog post about?

This guide discusses various approaches to compensating employees for being on-call, including no pay for on-call, pay as part of base salary, pay per incident, and pay by time. It also provides advice on choosing the best compensation method based on factors such as organization size, criticality of service, and frequency of incidents. The guide emphasizes fairness in compensation and suggests that paying by time is a sensible default for most organizations.

Company
Incident.io

Date published
March 22, 2022

Author(s)
Chris Evans

Word count
1647

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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