Yes. To clarify, it's completely reasonable to pay someone working 30 hours a week less, it's even okay to pay them less per hour. Make an offer! A problem is

Yes. To clarify, it's completely reasonable to pay someone working 30 hours a week less, it's even okay to pay them less per hour. Make an offer! A problem is that almost nobody will offer any salary at all to a nurse willing to work 30 hours per week. It's a testament to the flexibility of our market, or the lack thereof. If a nurse is willing to perform 30 hours of skilled labor and our economy cannot extract any value from that, what does that say about our economy?