Right now, we are paying her 11/hr plus medical benefits plus 2 weeks vacation and overtime. We started with 1 Back and 1 Front, 4 years ago. Newer hires come and go, but these two still with us. We are thinking to give her a raise to 13 or more soon.
Our front girl likes David said 'wearing many hats', but she is excellent, currently going back to school part time. I have been out of office for mos at times and she could keep the office running smoothly (holy c, simple running AC 3,4). But those hourly employees mentality seems like that 'hourly'. Probably in TX, they don't care if you hire hourly or salary, our friends, husband and wife doc team, just like you Dave, told us that their 'hourly' employee time had been over longtime ago, now all salaried employees. One full time and one part time might be less costly but not worth it in the newer EMR time. Data lost is hard to track. They forget to enter data or enter them wrong or not checking their messages.... we all know now that techno causes more problem and stress.
Bert in his usual 'cool' did tell me to have new iPad toy to play with but even my hands no longer having that steady grips. I slipped my coffee cups more than one, imagine an expensive techo toy like iPad, it is heavy and not like books, $600-800 a drop.
