"Courtney El Refai may call Sweden home, but every six weeks the 32-year-old commutes some 5,300 miles away to work at a San Francisco hospital as a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) nurse. While some may call it crazy, El Refai said it's all worth it for her dream job. Making over $100 an hour on a per diem schedule, she only has to work four, eight-hour shifts every four weeks."
""The commute is absolutely outrageous, but imagine having six weeks off after working 10 days on a repeated pattern," she said in a TikTok video that's racked up over 500,000 views. Because the cost of living is lower in Sweden than the Bay Area, she said her paychecks cover her bills-plus the $450 roundtrip plane ride to and from work, she told Business Insider."
Courtney El Refai lives in Sweden and travels about 5,300 miles to work in a San Francisco NICU every six weeks. She earns over $100 per hour on a per-diem schedule and completes four eight-hour shifts every four weeks by stacking shifts to finish work in a few days, allowing roughly ten days in California followed by six weeks off. Lower living costs in Sweden cover her expenses and the $450 roundtrip airfare. Her husband and daughter moved to Europe in December, and she describes feeling like a stay-at-home mom while remaining a working mother. Supercommuting, defined as travel over 90 minutes for work, is growing as workers weigh stability, family, and cost-of-living against return-to-office mandates.
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