How SRE Teams Use On-Call Compensation to Prevent Burnout

Most SRE teams talk about incident response and automation, but fewer talk about the human side of on-call: how to pay people fairly for the disruption. Lucas and Luna dig into a 2025 survey of 500 SREs that found 62% feel on-call pay does not match the cognitive load. They compare models — flat stipend versus per-incident pay — and discuss how companies like Honeycomb and PagerDuty structure their on-call compensation. They also explore the link between fair pay and retention: teams with transparent on-call comp have 40% lower turnover. Listeners will walk away with a framework for evaluating whether their own on-call setup is sustainable. #SRE #SiteReliabilityEngineering #OnCallCompensation #BurnoutPrevention #IncidentResponse #CognitiveLoad #TechWorkers #DevOps #Honeycomb #PagerDuty #FairPay #Retention #WorkLifeBalance #SREBestPractices #Technology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #TheSiteReliabilityPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo