cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/2933587
- How much extra do you get paid for being on an call rotation?
- Is the salary/benefits the same for inconvenience of being on call and working on an incident?
- What other rules do you have? Eg. max time working on an incident, rota for highly unsociable hours?
- How many people are on the same schedule with you?
- Where are you based, EU/US/UK/Canada?
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I’ve been on-call in 3 of my past jobs in Germany, most of it was pretty similar, 1 week per person, 600-800€ per week and some extra pay on incidents. Current job:
- ~500€ for a week and I get an extra day off after each week on-call, but no extra pay for incidents
- With the extra day off it’s really nice. Our team is light on incidents too.
- Not much past that. The standard German worker protection laws would apply, but pushing those would not help me much and it might not be the best career move.
- 5 others
- EU
Policy is 7 day rotation, 24h a day. Must be available to respond within 30m.
- ~$800 US a week. More if there are holidays. Get paid even if no incidents occur.
- I get phone and Internet reimbursement that normal devs don’t get.
- There’s supposed to be a policy where if I get paged between 10pm and 6am, I don’t have to show up to work for 11h. It’s not strictly followed in my team, but I always try and get my value from it.
- 7 others, so I’m on-call for 1 week every 2 months.
- Job is US based, but company is EU owned.
I’m an SRE though, so our on-call is different from on-call for our product devs.
In Germany you must be able to have an 11h break between shifts by law.