It's got to be $25.56 an hour (current NH actually gets $63.33; a year ago it was $55.56) pay increase or people will start leaving, I would imagine. Anything less than $25.56 is a min guarantee pay cut, and an insult to the industry. I hope it doesn't come down to this.
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Squallrider
If it's roller into pay rates and you average 1000 hours (bonus 20k) that's a hourly increase of $20...seems unrealistic to me.