ONTARIO Canada LPN Salary & Perks

In Ontario they are called RPNs. I am a new grad and I make $25.37/h. I am part time and I work 8-9 shifts per pay usually. I am eligible to contribute to the pension plan since I have worked over 7oo hours. My employer will contribute $1.26 for every buck I put in.I work in a small hospital.

Hospitals here in Ontario start RPN's at about 22 per hour plus a shift premium which may bring it up to 25 to 27. per hour. Some areas use RPN's a lot in hospitals and others don't. At the moment (June), most hospitals are hiring mostly new grad RPN's for the summer because the government is paying the hospitals to keep them for 7.5 months on full time to get experience. An RPN friend of mine got hired at one hospital, casual for now and was told at another hospital that they were only taking new grad RPN's and that they would put her on a wait list. Nice eh! Choose your hospital carefully, a few are very supportive to RPN's and others are not.

My advice if you are coming to Ontario would be to get your RN so that you have higher wages and greater job security if it is indeed a hospital where you want to work. There are some hospitals that will use RPN's but really they are few. Where I live, the push is on for RN's mainly and the school has doubled it's RN seats because that is what they feel is needed as the hospitals in the area will not give RPN's much of a scope of practice. I am not saying I agree or disagree with this trend but that is what is going on in my neck of the woods.

It is funny, I really want to move out west to either Alberta or Saskatchewan but my spouse says NO. Hope you like it here. Cheers.