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replies are from nurses with 10 or more years experience, or the threads are years old and the starting salary is long outdated.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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Depressing to hear what nurses are paid nowadays. Here's a link related to starting pay, has anyone heard of this one, yet?: https://allnurses.com/nursing-first-job/lower-pay-during-903278.htmlone

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Depressing to hear what nurses are paid nowadays. Here's a link related to starting pay has anyone heard of this one, yet?: https://allnurses.com/nursing-first-job/lower-pay-during-903278.htmlone

This is funny. When I started in 1999 I was paid $16/hr.. I think the salaries sound appropriate for first year out and geographic area..

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Starting salary was 20.00/hr in upstate NY. Night diff was 5.00/hr in the year 2000. Now, with 14 years of experience and no BSN, I make 46.13/hr. Night diff 6.25/hr. Boston area.

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I work SNF as a new grad in PA started at 26.14/hr - 5.00 second shift diff and 3.00 third shift

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Ahh, you guys will laugh...Starting pay for me is $18.28/hr, $3 for night differential and $3.50 for weekends. This is in TN, near Nashville. Not what I was expecting, but better than the zero money I am making now.

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Starting at 28/hour. Chicago area.

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This is funny. When I started in 1999 I was paid $16/hr.. I think the salaries sound appropriate for first year out and geographic area..

$16 per hour in 1999 is the equivalent of about $21.50 per hour now, so you were doing pretty good, back then. But that doesn't take into consideration the fact that today's nurses might have $50,000 or even $100,000 worth of student debt. All that considered, many nurses today are starting jobs that pay maybe 1/2 or less of what you started at in 1999. If that's funny, I missed the punch line.

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I am an RN working at a home health agency in Los Angeles, CA and I would get a stipend per visit I had done and no mileage reimbursed unless it was a far drive around 1.5-2 hours away I would get double the stipend for that visit. Now I started working in the office as a RN Case Worker and I get $25/hr.

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New grad ADN in Los Angeles,Ca.

Medsurg

Base pay-30.54

Night differential-3.00

After 8, time and a half; and on the 4th day time and a half and double time after 8 hours.

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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

Which health system in dfw? I make $24 base $4.5 night $6.5 weekend time and a half ot and $10 bonus I work with Methodist

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where?

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New grad RN, currently in a RN to BSN program, working at a LTC/ rehab facility about 20 miles north of Seattle.

Starting salary $28/ hr, on call/ part/time (that's what I wanted). No healthcare bennies but I still accumulate sick leave and vacation PTO.

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