If an employee chaperones an overnight kids trip, how do they get paid?

IRS Looks at it as you have to sleep anyways while your at home are a way from home just like driving to your place of work is considered commuting miles because you would have to get to work any ways and its the same for sleeping.you would be able to get a per Diem per day what the IRS allows if your job pays you a certain amount and it don't add up to what IRS allows you can make the difference up when you file your taxes.

Sounds to me like the chaperone has a beginning day and time and an ending day and time so I think they should be paid by the day an amount agreed upon by all parties. A 24 hour period of this nature is usually paid per job as opposed to hourly since sleeping is part of the deal. Check out what other chaperones get per hour and per day and you will come up with a reasonable pay :o)

I think you should be the chaperon, with the glasses and everything, and I'd be the loner in the back of the bus with a desperate look on my face every time a person walks by...or I could put a bag on the other seat and become anti-social. But we would need a HUGE bus, like the Magic School Bus styled and everything. : )

i used to work for a caregiver agency that sleeping hours were minimal$ but you were on call. there should be a set amount of dollars already set up for these trips..don't know enough details.most times chaperones are for the most volunteers.

This case concerns volunteer firefighters, which is not exactly the same thing as you're asking about, but scroll down to questions 2, 3, and 4 and you'll see cites for the exact regulations that govern paid and unpaid sleep time:

http://www.dol.gov/WHD/opinion/FLSA/2002/2002_08_1...

hi judy. if i was in his place i wan not accept stray pay only, i will ask over time plus a money from be away from home the nights. so i will prefer to get a gut for over time plus the pay, plus the night some extra money, on less you going to be as a tourists with other person (have nice day judy).