--0000000000005fb6b005e82d05b9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Good morning, Yes, the last competitor shop was done in the summer. We certainly can do another one, but at a glance at the current ads from other companies, the average pay right now is $20/hour plus benefits. I'm busy today with training, but I can coordinate with Anna to do some calls between today and tomorrow. On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 5:09 PM Sharon Speirs wrote: > Thanks for responding Tim as it is late there! > > We did a competitor shop recently for both wages and pricing- I will find > it and send it to you but it was before the summer so might be time again= . > Our rates are $37.50 per hour with credit card and $36.50 if the client > pays by EFT. $40.00 per hour if under 20 hours per week. Our rate for all > facilities is $36.00 including VCH. > We pay caregivers $20.00 if registered but only if they work for the VCH > clients. > Elizabeth and I will discuss tomorrow as we need caregivers right away so > if we have some leeway it could help as we have a pool of deactivated > caregivers that we might be able to entice back. > Sharon > > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 4:59 PM Timothy Thomas wrote: > >> Thank you both for bringing this to my attention. >> >> Firstly i would recommend we do a competitor shop to assess their >> payrates. Perhaps Anna could do this tomorrow? Sharon please ask her as >> chuck is off tomorrow. I=E2=80=99d also like to know if we have shopped = billing >> rates recently, if not lets get that done asap as well. >> >> In the meantime i would recommend increasing your pay scale to $19-$22 t= o >> see what that yields and lets reassess when the shop is complete. @angie >> ill let you make the final call here once the data comes through. >> >> Sharon, remind me the billing rates you're quoting for consumer and VCH? >> >> We dont want to be turning away any business for a few dollars at this >> stage even if we have to take a hit in margin. >> >> On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 7:35 PM Sharon Speirs wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Tim >>> >>> I wanted to let you know that we as well are struggling with a caregive= r >>> pool at the moment as we have significantly more applicants not accepti= ng a >>> position due solely to our rate of pay. We also are losing caregivers t= o >>> other agencies that are now paying more than we pay. We have always bee= n >>> somewhere in the middle but now at $18.00 we seem to be on the low end = of >>> the scale. We do pay $20.00 if our registered caregivers work for VCH b= ut >>> now even that seems to be too low if you're registered. >>> Currently our competition is paying in the range to $18 - 22 depending >>> on skill set or so it seems from our most recent research >>> I know this is down the road conversation on a bigger level but we have >>> an opportunity for 3 assessments coming up and another community 24/7 a= nd I >>> am really wondering if we will be able to staff them. I am currently h