How much do you make?

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Now, before I get blown up with comments saying "it's not about money, but patient care". I get that. No need to tell me over and over. I heard CRNAs mainly get hired in rural areas, which kind of scares me. I would simply like to know the average starting salary of your line of work, plus the area you live in, and/or the amount of experience you have as a CRNA. Thank you!

My lord, when did everybody get so sensitive. This is a forum, it is not rude to ask. Good family friend of mine just graduated CRNA school and accepted an offer in philadelphia for $147,000 along with 6 weeks paid vacation.

Specializes in Anesthesia.

You might also seek help on the CRNA and SRNA forum on Facebook. But, job searches on gaswork is probably your best indicator.

If you are a fully qualified CRNA, do the rest of us a favor and don't jump on the first ACT job that offers you $120k/year to be their *****. Search around. You might not be able to get a job in the place you really want to live, but home is where you hang your hat. Do your homework. Find a good prospect. Research it. Go visit them. Talk to CRNAs (offline - buy them a beer after work and shoot the ****). Find a good spot, because you're going to be doing this day in and day out - make sure it's a good one. Don't settle for some super-supervised, salaried work-til-you-drop kind of crap that people settle for first thing. Be willing to move. Pump up your skills. Go for the gold, baby!

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a friend at columbia crna graduate got 180k and from what i understand from columbia crna grads that's typical (nyc might have something to do with it? idk)

I've been a CRNA for 13 yeas, and over the past several our raises have been very low and we aren't getting bonuses anymore. When I started demand was greater than supply and it's switched - there are som many more CRNAs than when I started- also AAs are becoming legal in several states and will make competition stiffer and then our slalaries will decrease. I've been looking for another opportunity for a Plan B. I found a great opportunity as a consultant and it's awesome because I can make good money and am building my business so that I am able to quit and do it full time. It's also appealing to me because I will have control of my schedule, finances, and future instead of someone else.

Local hospital hires hew grad CRNAs at 90K a year. The only way you can make more is if you take call.

Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.

Can you share what area of the country this is? No need to get very specific.

Specializes in CRNA, Finally retired.

NYC - tri-state region. $150,000. Property taxes $16,100 for raised ranch. Think that says it all.

I made $210,000 last year. But I work about 70-80 hours of OT per month. That is in the Midwest in an ACT practice with almost total autonomy.

Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.

This is what is so discouraging to me. In my hospital an experienced (10+ years) critical care RN who works nights and every other weekend will normally make about $115K- $130k/year without working any OT. RN with 20+ years are making $140K or so. This is a reasonable COL area of the upper Midwest.

It makes the investment into NA school seem kinda iffy. I suppose there is the greater autonomy to consider. In addition the CRNA would be more portable with that income level where any of our nurses who move out of the area is going to find lower wages, or high COL or both.

Specializes in ICU.
This is what is so discouraging to me. In my hospital an experienced (10+ years) critical care RN who works nights and every other weekend will normally make about $115K- $130k/year without working any OT. RN with 20+ years are making $140K or so. This is a reasonable COL area of the upper Midwest.

Just have to say - unless it really is the autonomy you are looking for, that's a really good deal and I wouldn't make the jump. I have a coworker that managed to crack 100k last year because she worked sixty hours a week every week and received a lot of incentive pay, but most of the experienced ICU nurses in these parts make under 60k if they're just working full time. I make a hair under 50k with no overtime, including my night shift differential. My day shift coworkers get about 41k/year, assuming they make my base pay. I have seen a CRNA posting with salary info listed at $57/hr here on a hospital website, which comes out to under 120k if the assumption is 40 hours/week with no differential.

Specializes in CRNA, Finally retired.

I have never heard of such a low CRNA salary since the 90's. Which state? The field is getting and it is expected that salaries will drop. I can't imagine that slot would ever get filled. I never lived anywhere with a COL either, so that makes a huge difference. My property taxes were over 16,000 making the dollar much smaller.

Specializes in ICU.
I have never heard of such a low CRNA salary since the 90's. Which state? The field is getting and it is expected that salaries will drop. I can't imagine that slot would ever get filled. I never lived anywhere with a COL either, so that makes a huge difference. My property taxes were over 16,000 making the dollar much smaller.

NC - and I don't think really had problems filling the slots because it never seemed like they stayed up for long. If you want to work in a hospital, that's about what the pay is here, at least starting out.

Here's a good example within a 45 minute drive of where I live - their range is 110k-140k. I also like how the position specifies that CRNAs will NOT earn time and a half for work over 40 hours/week.

Then again, there are six CRNA programs in my state, and I could drive to any of them in less than three hours, so it's not exactly hard to find CRNA grads around here.

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