Tools for Healthcare Workers
Pay and contract arithmetic for nurses, therapists and anyone else working shifts — worked out in your browser, with nothing sent anywhere.
What is deliberately not here
Nothing clinical. No doses, no drip rates, no triage, no risk scores, no assessment instruments, no interpretation of anything about a patient. Those need clinical validation, regulatory review and a named clinician standing behind them, and none of that applies to a general-purpose tools site.
Nothing that asks for patient information. These tools are about your pay and your contracts. There is no field here for a patient, because there is nothing here that needs one.
No tax, and no advice. Every figure is gross. Whether a travel stipend is untaxed depends on your circumstances rather than the offer, and it is the most expensive thing in travel healthcare to get wrong — ask someone who knows your situation.
Why these two first
Both are arithmetic problems where the correct answer is not obvious and the common answer is wrong.
Overtime is not one and a half times your base rate. Under the federal rule it is one and a half times the regular rate, which includes your shift differentials. Work a run of nights into overtime and the difference is real money, every week, and it does not announce itself. The calculator shows both figures so you can hold them against a payslip.
A weekly package and an hourly rate are different units. A travel contract quoted at $2,400 a week is mostly stipend rather than wages; a staff job at $48 an hour is all wages and comes with benefits. Comparing $66 to $48 is not a comparison. Converting both to what they pay per hour worked — benefits, unpaid commute, one-off costs and the weeks between assignments included — usually narrows the gap a long way.
And the figure almost nobody models: what happens when the hours do not turn up. Depending on three words in a contract, one cancelled shift a week costs somewhere between three and twenty-three thousand dollars over a thirteen-week assignment. Same shift, same census, same hospital.
- Caseload, visit-frequency and documentation planners — these need de-identified patient slots, and doing that responsibly means memory-only storage, session clearing and identifier warnings before a single page ships. Worth doing properly or not at all.
- Nursing shift workload and assignment balance — useful, but a workload figure sits one short step from being read as a staffing-safety judgement, which it cannot be.
- Handoff and incident tools — the highest privacy risk in the category and the lowest search demand. Not a good trade.
- Continuing education and licence renewal tracking — genuinely low risk and probably next.