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replies are from nurses with 10 or more years experience, or the threads are years old and the starting salary is long outdated.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 Med/Surg.

RN for 1 year. Rehab at LTC. Part time 21.50 base. 1-4 dollars more for evenings and weekends. This is northern Colorado. Just hired for med/ surg unit in hospital @ Cheyenne, Wy. Base 27.31 with 8 and 12 % for nights and weekends.

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Specializes in Managed Care/Advisory Services/Transition Planning.

LPN here in the Puget Sound area of Washington. Starting wages were $24/hr as agency in a clinic and $21 in LTC.

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Central Ohio here... New grad...21.65/hr +3.25 for nights +2.50 for weekends.

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RN, BSN, new grad

Central California, hospital

$36.58/hr

+$3 night

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New grad ADN

25.53/hr

3.25/hr nights

3.00/hr weekends

Central Washington, hospital

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Specializes in Psych.

My first job out of school was $21 an hour at a non profit community mental health agency serving low income clients with severe and persistent mental illnesses. M-F 9-5, no holidays, 8hrs PTO per pay, 401K, okay insurance. My job now (left the first job after 9 mos) 22.83 + 4 hr diff on evenings, 7 hr diff on nights (which I never work), 401K plus matching, better and cheaper insurance, 10 hrs per.pay PTO. Private psych hospital. Both in MD. I am a RN ADN.

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New BSN grad in May 2012. Medical oncology in Missouri.

Base $17.75/hr + $1 BSN differential + $3 night shift diff

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Specializes in EMERGENCY.

New Grad, RN, NSN

Central Valley, CA

per-diem (working FT hrs)

$43.75/hr base pay for first 8 hrs

Time & a half for anything over 8 (I work 12s)

$1.50 mid shift differential

$3.00 night shift differential

Overall, I average about $51/hr without benes

I've got health insurance through my husband & like the freedom of essentially picking my own schedule - so Per Diem has worked well for me!

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Specializes in Psych/med surg.

New grad ADN Columbus, Ohio. Community health psych nurse, $55k plus $.565 mileage. Mon-Fri 8 to 5, no weekends and I get paid holidays.

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I am in HOU TX.

- level 1 trauma hospital, nights = $30/h + $1.00 weekend diff.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, OB/GYN, Informatics, Simulation.

2013 BSN Hospital 29.00 in CT

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May 2013

Southern Ca

BSN prepared both New Grad positions

OC Hospital

Base: $30.50 for first 8 hrs; $45.00 last 4 hrs

Night: +$3.50

BSN: +.50 cents

LA Hospital

Base: $32. 80

Night: +$7.00

Both offer benefits, no weekend diff, holiday pay time and a half

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