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Working ER and trauma in Seattle Wa., my base pay, including premium for eve shift and weekends has been around $37.00/hr with 15 yrs experience.

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I work at a 330-bed community-based hospital in CT and last May's new grads received $24.50. This was an increase over previous years, however, requiring the hospital to give a raise to the previous year's new-hires (so as not ot have the new-grads earning more than those with a year's experience). Evening differential is $1.50, nights and weekends are $2.50 each. Overtime is (I believe) time-and-a-half and bonuses are offered to nurses who pick up at least 4 additional 4-hour shifts in a 4 week long schedule period. (I'm a nursing technician in this facility and I make $12.50/hr base working perdiem. I get the same evening, night, and weekend differential rates.)

I'm still in nursing school, and we recently had a "job fair" to allow us the chance to talk with recruiters in the area (CT, MA, NH, NY, and RI). The base salaries quoted to me for new grads (and yes, I did make sure it was a base quote - before differentials, bonuses, education stuff) ranged from $25.15 - $27.50. It is important to note, of course, that being CT, the cost of living makes these quotes seem less impressive...

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Originally Posted by angel

I know that pay scales vary around the usa; but was wondering about the va nuses pay scale(title 38)...we have been under a locality pay act for 10years now & do not get cost of living like all other federal employees.In fact some years got a cut..this year they receive 4.8%....what about the rest of the USA what is your COLA????....maybe it is time that we organize for uniformity of pay throught the usa...

I have worked at a VA for 2 1/2 years now. I make $16.00 an hour. upon employment, you are hired at a rate depending on experience. I had only been an LVN for 8 years when I started working for the VA. the Government pays you on a step and grade scale. you can look on the internet under Government pay scale and find out what they pay according to the step and grade. I started out grade 6, step 1. We did recieve the cost of living. Of course RN's get increases when the LVN's do not. I

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Hi! Minnesota here. $23/hr base pay for evening Urgent Care.

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Originally Posted by Lisa Lisa RN

I live in the southeast suburbs of Chicago, near the Indiana border. I'm currently in LTC-facility w/approx 150 residents. My $$ is 19.50/hr. + 1.00/hr diff for house supervisor duties. Our facility does NOT offer shift diff. for 3-11s, 11-7s or w/e shifts. We get time and a half for ALL hours over 8 hours/day..NOT 40 hrs/wk. which is great! Full-timers do NOT get any holiday pay..but if we work holidays..pay is DOUBLE time and if we work 16hrs (double shift)--we get double time and a half..which adds up nicely!! Our cost of living in Cook County Illinois (chicago) is very high..our gasoline is about 1.58/gal. Our retail taxes are 9.25% on everything - including groceries..we jump to Indiana for purchases..NO tax on groceries, and 5% on ALL other purchases... It is so very interesting to see how the salaries differ through the country... The facilities in Indiana, which borders my area, pay much less than in Illinois...d/t cost of living..... Agencies and hospital registries in Illinois are paying near 50 and just over 50 bucks/hr for midnite/evening/weekend shifts in critical care areas. Just saw an ad for 50 bucks an hour at Little Company of Mary in Evergreen Park, IL... Move here and aleviate our shortage !!! Keep Smiling !! :-)

I know they pay 27.80 for rn's on 3-11

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I just had to say that this is a fascinating thread that originally started almost 10 years ago.

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omg,yur right 10 yrs,wow,that's crazy

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Originally Posted by askater

Michigan $18-23. But it probably depends on what hospital and location. My first R.N. job I made $15 something that was 4 years ago. Now I'm at a different hospital.

I'm contigent. So without insurance I make a little more.

I'll add that differentials can add up in the right hospital. for my experience level I had a base of 26.50 plus 6.50 in differentials- this was in CVSICU,day shift. Night shift would get a $10,000 bonus after 2 years on top of all the other differentials. I loved that place-- sadly I had to leave

"on-call" pay for Cardiac Cath

How does my hospital compare? For hours spent "on-call," i.e., available to work for a specified time, e.g., 12 midnight to 8 a.m. (and able to get to the hospital within 45 minutes), we receive pay as follows: 3/4 time PER HOUR if not called in and TIME-and-one-HALF if actually reporting to the hospital for emergency work--PLUS, if I am called in, I get paid for a minimum of 4 hrs at the overtime rate. Thanks!

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nyforlove, that's pretty good call pay. My hospital gives $2.25 per hour beeper pay, then when you actually come in it's time and a half. The minimum is 2hrs even if you're only there for 30 mins.

In North FL RNs with 5-10 yrs are making $28-$29 for critical care. I started out at $17.25 8 years ago as a GN.