Your Starting Salary?

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For nursing students like myself, I thought it would be helpful and intersting to see what type of salary is out there for graduating nursing students for different area's. Looking around the site, I see different salary threads, but many replies are from nurses with 10 or more years experience, or the threads are years old and the starting salary is long outdated. I thought it would be more helpful to have a thread with nurses who are fresh out of school and what their starting salary is.

List whether you are an LPN or an RN

What your starting salary is/was after you graduated

Whether it's a hospital or LTC

What state you live in

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Portland, OR

New grad RN BSN

Base pay about $34/hr

Evening shift differential $2/hr (until 11p), night shift differential $6/hr (11p-7a)

Large teaching hospital

Specializes in ICU.

20.98 for new grad in New Mexico.

Specializes in Medical Oncology, ER.

new grad RN BSN bay area, CA

$36/hour in acute rehab

evening/weekend shift $2/hour differential

Specializes in Perinatal.

New Grad ADN, Labor and Delivery at a county hospital.

East Bay Area, California.

$41.62 base pay, with 15% NOC differential...$47.82.

New grad in NY, ADN with BS in non-nursing field. I'm working nights, which is 20% differential for weekdays and 30% for weekends. Depending on if I do 8 or 12 hr weekends and holidays worked etc, my salary will end up being between $57-58,000 the first year. Salary goes up significantly after that first year.

What part of NY? And may I ask what field are you working in?

Started as a BSN new grad in January 2013. Starting wage was $25.70/hr, with $1.50 PM differential. One year in and am now making $26.21/hr. I work in an outpatient surgery center in Wisconsin.

Specializes in M/S, pedi.

New grad ASN outside Boston, MA

Small community hospital

28.07 days 3.00 diff for eves and 6.00 on nights. W/e diff 2.50.

new grad RN

starting salary $21/hr, no differential for eves/noc/weekends

LTC

rural county outside Olympia, Washington

This thread is kinda depressing because it seems EVERYBODY is making more money than me. Most of the classmates I graduated with got their first jobs in LTC; the highest pay I've heard of for them around here is $24/hr with a $3 night shift differential, but they are worked to death and hate it. A few of my classmates got residencies in the big teaching hospital in Olympia and are making $27/hr base pay. I work at an assisted living facility that's licensed as a boarding home, so it's not sub-acute care and that's probably why it pays less. But I am grateful to have landed a job with no experience right after graduation, and hey, money is money!

2010 LTC new grad pay for LPN in Tennesse was 16.50/hr with $3/hr for nights, $1/hr for weekends, and $1.20/hr for evenings

new grad in dfw at $24.25/hour, on an increasing pay scale for the first 18 months as an intern before moving to the RN pay scale

there is also a $5/hour night differential and an additional $6/hour weekend differential

Depressing, and shocking.

Specializes in CDI Supervisor; Formerly NICU.
Depressing, and shocking.
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