Oncall Compensation for Software Engineers
Google's oncall compensation structure is phenomenal.For tier 1 oncall (5m response time), for each hour oncall outside of working hours, you are compensated for 40 minutes, which you can either take as time off or at your current pay rate (i.e. you are compensated at 2/3 your usual pay).For tier 2 oncall (30m response time), the compensation is 20 minutes per hour outside of working hours.For a tier 1 rotation, the team has a staffing requirement of 12 people, split between two sites. There's a max of 80h oncall, outside of working hours, per person per quarter. Because oncall is split between sites, you are never oncall overnight.