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replies are from nurses with 10 or more years experience, or the threads are years old and the starting salary is long outdated.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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Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.

In my area (DFW) new grad RNs (both BSN and ASN) make between $21.50 and $24.00/hr base in a hospital setting depending on the hospital. My pay is somewhere right smack in the middle-ish of that with stacking shift differentials.

Houston, TX

LVN

Private duty/non agency/ self employed

$25 hour

I negotiate directly with the family on a fee for service basis.

And yes I know, I got a sweet gig!

I fell into this job...It is contract so I pay my own taxes and it offers no health insurance or vacation and if something were to go wrong it would be my license but I work directly under the families Dr's and office RN staff...as far as liability and am about to purchase as well...

but being that I can pick and choose my own cases (and there are more than you would think out there who need one on one nursing and can afford to pay out of pocket for it)...so I take those that I feel I am qualified to handle based on my scope of practice and what I am comfortable with. I would probably not take on a pt that needs constant high skilled nursing ...I would take on the chronically ill pt w/ a predictible outcome -hence complying w/ my BON.

I work for a private family right now...I am thinking that I will continue to network and stay w/ the home health venue as I like not having 20+ pts to one nurse in LTC and I'm not running my ass off for $19 hour.

I recently talked to a 4 yr degree RN. She makes $1.50 an hour more than I do.

and works for a MAJOR hospital in the med center. Now THAT is just way wrong...!

Specializes in NICU.

I live in Michigan and started at 26.57 an hour plus 1.50 shift differential for nights in a large magnet hospital.

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

Not a new grad here but I can access my hospital's pay scale so know what new grads make. Base is $64,000/year. All new grads work every other weekend and get 25% diff for W/E. Also those who work nights (most new grads do) get 10% night diff. In addition all nurses get pait for 10 holidays. This means a new grad makes slightly over $78K/year before taxes. Within 4-6 years most are making well over $100K/year. Most RNs who have worked here for 15-20 years are making $120-140K/year. This is for RNs reguardless of degree in Minneapolis MN.

I just graduated with my BSN.

As a new grad, my range is $37-$40.

Start is about $31, ~$3 variable differential for all shifts (may be cancelled 1-2 shifts a payperiod, scheduled 36hrs/week), ~$3 NOC shifts, and ~$3 weekends.

Working Mobile Unit Critical Care (ER, ICU, NICU, IMCU, Tele, etc).

In Wisconsin...so not super high cost of living like the New York one posted previously.

Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.
I just graduated with my BSN.

As a new grad, my range is $37-$40.

Start is about $31, ~$3 variable differential for all shifts (may be cancelled 1-2 shifts a QUOTE]

*** I don't understand how if your range $37-40 as a new grad but you are only being started at $31? Just wondering if this is in Madison?

Specializes in orthopedic/trauma, Informatics, diabetes.

dang! New grads here in NC 20-22/hour some diff. for weekend and/or nights.

I am a C.N.A and a nursing student here in NYC and making 20.91 and hour

Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.
I recently talked to a 4 yr degree RN. She makes $1.50 an hour more than I do.

and works for a MAJOR hospital in the med center. Now THAT is just way wrong...!

If you add up FICA, tax rates as an independent contractor, paying your own social security and add it to the loss of medical insurance, vision, dental, life insurance, HSA, 401K, shift differentials, paid time off and other benefits, you actually are earning far less than your counterparts. Never look at compensation merely as the hourly rate. There is a lot more to it than that. If you look at just the tax/FICA/SS/Medicare portion you are earning less than average for your area, not including other perks like shift differentials, critical need pay, paid time off and general benefits such as insurance. Even if you don't need/want those things, they do count as compensation. You can't compare your hourly rate to those of an RN at the hospital and say you are ahead of the game when you aren't counting all the compensation that nurse is getting that you aren't.

31+3+3= 37 (weekday)

31+3+3+3= 40 (weekend)

Madison.

So far in Ohio for an RN, ASN this is what ive seen- $21-23/hr at a nice hospital w/benefits in smaller areas or Nursing home.

$23-25 in larger cities.

$27-30/hr at a correctional institution, no benefits.

Slightly lower than what most others have posted, i'm guessing that's due to cost of living.

Not a new grad here but I can access my hospital's pay scale so know what new grads make. Base is $64,000/year. All new grads work every other weekend and get 25% diff for W/E. Also those who work nights (most new grads do) get 10% night diff. In addition all nurses get pait for 10 holidays. This means a new grad makes slightly over $78K/year before taxes. Within 4-6 years most are making well over $100K/year. Most RNs who have worked here for 15-20 years are making $120-140K/year. This is for RNs reguardless of degree in Minneapolis MN.

Is your job by any chance with the VA

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