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You get paid 50% of your normal hourly salary for every hour you're "available".
You get paid 200% of your normal hourly salary for every hour you're working on an issue, incident, outage, or problem.
So being on-call is pretty lucrative, given that you'd usually do it for a seven day period. (i.e. 9am Monday to 9am the following Monday.)
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You get paid 50% of your normal hourly salary for every hour you're "available".
You get paid 200% of your normal hourly salary for every hour you're working on an issue, incident, outage, or problem.
So being on-call is pretty lucrative, given that you'd usually do it for a seven day period. (i.e. 9am Monday to 9am the following Monday.)