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replies are from nurses with 10 or more years experience, or the threads are years old and the starting salary is long outdated.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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[SummitRN, BSN, RN]

Denver new grads are making $21.50-$24/hr + dif in the hospitals, which comes out to 40-45K before the $1.50-$3/hr dif.

... that is for those who can get a job.

[PMFB-RN, RN]

Is your job by any chance with the VA

*** No.

[Calinurse4]

Bay area, California new grads ~$45-$50/hour...some places a bit higher, others a little lower.

[tots24]

"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."

WHAT? I'm in Minneapolis and that does not look like the MNA contract salary I've been looking at/talked to HR about. I make way, way under that doing private duty right now. I have GOT to get into a hospital soon. Good info though, thanks!

[ashleyisawesome, BSN, RN]

RN

23.85 with .75 differential for evenings, 1.00 differential for nights. i work evenings and nights.

hospital, med surg

PA

[sawms]

RN (ASN), New Grad (Prior surg. tech)

OR-Days $32/hr, no differentials since there is no call, evenings, holidays or weekends

Ambulatory Surgery Center, Benefited position (ins. and 401K)

Atlanta

PRN OR-Days (on days off) $38/hr

[coopmke]

New grad (December 2012) in Wisconsin (so no prior RN experience at all, just previously e,played as CNA and Nurse External while in nursing school)

RN, BSN

Working in a hospital setting in the ICU

$24.14 is the base day pay

+ $2.75 for nights making it $26.89

+ $1.00 for weekends

So before taxes annually the salary is between $50,627.20 and $56,269.20 because my job will be day night rotations with more nights, I'm guessing right around $54,000.

This job obviously includes benefits and with the market where it is in my area, it's getting tough for new grads to find jobs.

[CaptScrubs13]

RN (BSN) at a sub-acute floor of a SNF right in Boston

Base for our unit is $27, $2 diff for eves $3 for weekends. 32 hours a week so considered full time = full benefits.

[dylansmom7]

New Grad ADN starting full-time 34.86 in Oncology Acute Care. Per Diem is 45.00 and there are also weekend diff/night diff/evening diff.

[bubblejet50]

I live in Iowa. When I graduated my LPN program in 2010 I worked LTC and was paid $16.50/hr when I worked the med cart, $19/hr when I worked as charge nurse. I graduated from my RN (ADN) program in 2012 and work in a group home for developmentally disabled individuals. My starting wage with no experience under my licence was $20.25/hr. The LTC that I turned down offered me $25/hr and the hospitals here start between $17 and $20.

[owlRN01]

$21.50 Base pay

+ $1.00 for BSN = $22.50

+ $3.25 for night shift = $25.75

+ $5.00 for weekends =$30.75

In Florida

[Slimlady727]

New Grad: May 2012 RN, BSN

NYC private hosptial: Medical Surgical Floor (no exp)

Starting Base salary $79,443 (not including shift diff, which is about another 6k)

Hourly: $40.79

shift diff: $3.50 (+/- some cents)