[icedchai]

At a previous company (3 employers ago), we got like an extra $500/week for being on call. It was optional and about 7 or 8 people were in rotation. Some weeks, there would be no alerts. Other weeks, it'd be a total nightmare.

At another company, I was the only person on call for about 4 years, no additional compensation. I controlled all the alerting, so I'd just turn down the alerts to the bare minimum. Unless the site was completely down, I didn't get paged. Everything else waited until morning. It was a B2B SaaS business and very little actively happened outside of US working hours.