Re: Pay Scale

Dear friends!

I read many your posts and understood that I don't understand does nurse in
US have good(or bad) salary or not. Because I don't know, what you can
buy if you get 22$/hour if you work full time.
For example, I have 4.7$/hour, RN, full time, plus 65$ bonus. 90$
government taxes and med. insurance, rent( apartment 1 bed-room) 350$,
100-120$ electricity, water, municipal tax, 70-80$ telephone, mobile phone,
100$ my bank-loan and so on. My salary is very low, most RN have 1300 up
to 2000$ net, but their spendings also many more.
700 g bread - 1$, 1 kg hen-meat - 4-5$ ... and so on. If that is interesting for
you I can tell you more about our prices.
What do you can do with your salary? Does it big? Is it good for you?

Re: Pay Scale

Originally Posted by dan_haifa

Dear friends!

I read many your posts and understood that I don't understand does nurse in
US have good(or bad) salary or not. Because I don't know, what you can
buy if you get 22$/hour if you work full time.
For example, I have 4.7$/hour, RN, full time, plus 65$ bonus. 90$
government taxes and med. insurance, rent( apartment 1 bed-room) 350$,
100-120$ electricity, water, municipal tax, 70-80$ telephone, mobile phone,
100$ my bank-loan and so on. My salary is very low, most RN have 1300 up
to 2000$ net, but their spendings also many more.
700 g bread - 1$, 1 kg hen-meat - 4-5$ ... and so on. If that is interesting for
you I can tell you more about our prices.
What do you can do with your salary? Does it big? Is it good for you?

Hello, dan,

Sorry, but, your post is a little difficult to understand. Are you wanting to know if an RN makes enough to cover everyday/monthly/yearly expenese?

Re: Pay Scale

Originally Posted by pinkfloydfreak

my cousins lives in canada and work in michigan as rns .with the higher exchange rate for us dollars and the universal health care , sounds like they got it made. wonder how good is this "universal" health care though.

Well, I live in a small town on the border with Canada, and there are clinics here that specifically cater to canadian clients b/c the wait is so long for procedures and tests up there, and not just elective items either!!! all kinds of things, those that have the money up there purchase thier medical care here.

I would be curious though how the pay differs from Vancouver BC to Seattle.

Re: Pay Scale

Originally Posted by dan_haifa

Dear friends!

I read many your posts and understood that I don't understand does nurse in
US have good(or bad) salary or not. Because I don't know, what you can
buy if you get 22$/hour if you work full time.
For example, I have 4.7$/hour, RN, full time, plus 65$ bonus. 90$
government taxes and med. insurance, rent( apartment 1 bed-room) 350$,
100-120$ electricity, water, municipal tax, 70-80$ telephone, mobile phone,
100$ my bank-loan and so on. My salary is very low, most RN have 1300 up
to 2000$ net, but their spendings also many more.
700 g bread - 1$, 1 kg hen-meat - 4-5$ ... and so on. If that is interesting for
you I can tell you more about our prices.
What do you can do with your salary? Does it big? Is it good for you?

Simply put, I think you would have a higher standard of living in most areas of the US at 21/hr than you currently have. Although your rent is low (about 1/2 - 1/3 of most rents in the US) 4.70/hr is about an 80% + paycut so even if cost of living is overall double or triple here, than you still are ahead.

Re: Pay scale

Originally Posted by ginger86

I live outside of Toronto, Ontario - Canada and most hospitals have a union and our payscale for RN's starts at $22.00 and top of the pay scale after 9 years is $33.75/hour and it does not matter what department you work at in the hospital as a nurse. If you are the clinical resource nurse (fancy name for charge nurse) you receive an additional $1.20/hr.

ginger

USD or CDN ??? Big difference

Re: Pay Scale

Boy, pay here in NC is lousy!!! I have been an RN (BSN) for 14 years and only make $23.50/hr for night shift! New grads start out around $19/hr. My daughter wanted to be an RN - but I think I have convinced her there are MUCH better ways to make a living!!! (And better pay and hours!)

Re: Pay Scale

I just got hired here in Montana. I have just over a year of experience. My base pay will be $20.48/hr and I will be working full time (80 hrs every two weeks) and accruing paid time off. Evening diff is around $1 and nights is $2 or so. No weekend diff. When I was fresh out of school in summer 2004 in North Carolina I started at $17.75 and then we all got a 25 cent cost of living increase. I got a raise right before I moved, I think it was about 30 cents, which was the second highest level on the evaluation. But the diffs were better there, $1.50 evenings, $3.00 nights and $6.00 weekends. I also made an extra 20% in lieu of benefits when I worked there.

Re: Pay Scale

Ikes, this is a depressing thread! I work agency in Northern VA/ DC area, and have for a few years, so I have a base rate of $34.00/hr. I looked into going PRN with one hospital in the area, and after much negotiation, they offered $25.00/hr. I declined.

I have fresh open-heart experience, CVVH, SvO2, etc and am surprised that some people with marketable skills work for so cheaply. I don't think I will ever be on hospital staff again.

Re: Pay Scale

Originally Posted by KBrown881

Ikes, this is a depressing thread! I work agency in Northern VA/ DC area, and have for a few years, so I have a base rate of $34.00/hr. I looked into going PRN with one hospital in the area, and after much negotiation, they offered $25.00/hr. I declined.

I have fresh open-heart experience, CVVH, SvO2, etc and am surprised that some people with marketable skills work for so cheaply. I don't think I will ever be on hospital staff again.

My wife found the same thing in the Albany, NY area. She doubled her hourly salary by doing ICU/CCU through an agency. Having a new son, she now gets to work half the hours to bring home the same money, which she loves.

Chip

Re: Pay Scale

I work in NW Illinois and starting wages for new grads run about 21-23 an hour plus evening and shift differentials. I am a new nurse ( boards Feb 05) and work at two facilities . One is an acute hospital and I make 23.87 an hours plus 2.50 evening diff w. 2.00 more on weekends. The other facilty
is a rehabilitation hospital and I make 25.37 an hour plus 2.50 evening and 2.00 weekend differentials.
My family had thought about moving to another area but the wages are not comp. to those that I make now.
It is a same that we are not recongnized for what we do and paid accordingly.
Good luck in your career.
ERoman RN