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My instructor told us that CNAs starting out make about $13-15/hr. I thought that was a pretty high wage given our area.

Any other CNAs wish to share their income and how much experience they have?

Specializes in Med/surg tele, home health, travel.

It depends on where you live. I worked in a LTC facility a few years ago and they started out at $8/hr in 2008 and I transferred to another LTC facility and made $13/hr. I do home care now and make $18 for the first hour and $12.66 for subsequent hours, but in Ohio they are doing away with independent care providers and going all agency very soon because of the changes with healthcare. I am currently paid by Medicaid and have to pay for third party billing and also am in charge of taking out my own with-holdings. The nice thing is I can write a lot of expenses off because I am considered self employed, so it has it's perks occasionally. It's nice getting a paycheck without anything taken out, but I surely need it for gas every week with all of my driving!

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Specializes in CNA.

I work night shift and only make $9 an hour..:no: and I am in Oklahoma.

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That's it! I'm moving to Canada! The most I've made has been $10.25 an hour with $50 flat rate for overnights.

Yeah the pay is good here that's for sure, but keep in mind our CCA course is a full time course for 10 months. It involves communication classes, dementia classes, personal care classes, nutrition classes, safety classes and vital signs, its a lot of work.

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Specializes in DD, Mental Health, Geriatric.

Yeah the pay is good here that's for sure, but keep in mind our CCA course is a full time course for 10 months. It involves communication classes, dementia classes, personal care classes, nutrition classes, safety classes and vital signs, its a lot of work.

We take all those classes, too, but from different places over a period of time like one place will offer only dementia and mental health and another safety, and a different place for nutrition, etc. So, instead of learning it all in one location over time, we have to find and sign up for them individually being taught by different instructors from different healthcare training companies. I've got a pile of certificates from all the different healthcare training classes I've taken on top of the main Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving and CNA courses. Altogether I've racked up over 100+ hours of training so far and that's not counting CE! The way I look at it is this; I may not need a particular class right now, but someday I may be caring for a certain person that I needed to learn about like DD or diabetic clients, etc. So, I try to sign up for and take as many caregiving classes as I can because I never know when the information will come in handy.

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We take all those classes, too, but from different places over a period of time like one place will offer only dementia and mental health and another safety, and a different place for nutrition, etc. So, instead of learning it all in one location over time, we have to find and sign up for them individually being taught by different instructors from different healthcare training companies. I've got a pile of certificates from all the different healthcare training classes I've taken on top of the main Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving and CNA courses. Altogether I've racked up over 100+ hours of training so far and that's not counting CE! The way I look at it is this; I may not need a particular class right now, but someday I may be caring for a certain person that I needed to learn about like DD or diabetic clients, etc. So, I try to sign up for and take as many caregiving classes as I can because I never know when the information will come in handy.

Continuing education is always a good thing. Our health region also offers other classes for CCAs. I personally haven't taken any of them, I did go to all the in-services that were offered before I went back to school instead.

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I just finished clinicals this week and I asked a few of the CNAs at the nursing home what they started out at. Looks to be 9.50 across the board.

I thought a hospital would pay more but I heard from quite a few of the staff members that they pay LESS! I can't see a hospital paying less than 9.50/hr.

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Yeah pay really depends on cost of living in your specific area.

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