[MsLady06]

Originally Posted by baylay

The State Board of Vocational Nursing has it posted.
$14 - $18 per hour
$29,120 - $38,016 per year is what they show.

http://www.bvnpt.ca.gov/factvn.htm

Ouch!

[lllliv]

i'm in las vegas and am an lpn. i make $ 24.34 with full benefits.

raise in process this month. not sure how much it will be yet.

[jelorde37]

i was offered 20.50 at a sub acute floor in so california but i ended up working in palm springs at a LTC for 19.50 with benefits.

[postmortem_cowboy]

Registry work tends to be more money as well, but with registries you also run the risk of not working steady hours. I've worked for a registry that paid 25 and change per hour on 12's and OT after 8. However, doesn't really help when you make your availability for 4-6 shifts a week and get cancelled for all but 1 of them. A nurse straight out of LVN school here in california with no IV/Phleb cert would probably make around the stated 17 an hour however, a condition of your employment would be that you get IV/Phleb certed within like a month or two. Also a good idea to get EKG certed, ACLS/PALS certed, unless of course all you want is to work in a SNF, TCU or rehab, then it won't really matter, but for all of your acutes, they'll want the certs.


Wayne.

[scallywags]

I am in the Bay Area. I am currently a student, so I can not speak from personal experience. I have a friend who recently went from LVN ($28/hr) to RN ($55/hr). She works at a hospital in SF.

[caliotter3]

In the SF bay area an agency will pay one nurse $15/hr, while paying another nurse $22/hr. Benefits, of course, only avail to person scheduled often enough to qualify for them.

[BigB]

Nothern California rates

Regisrties pay the LVN's $30 - $32/hr here...they generally don't take out taxes and offer no benefits.

Nursing homes = $23/ hr or so.

Department of Corrections pays their LVN's $19/hr - $24/hr.

I make $26.50/hr as an MTA (LVN/Peace officer) at the Dept. of Mental Health and will top out at $36/ hr in about 4 years. DMH is the best deal out there for an LVN in California. Plus the retirement is amazing.

[swtxtc03]

I get paid $22/hour with benefits as intake nurse in a Home health agency and $27/hour without benefits in a SNF.

[gentlegiver]

In Massachusetts you get paid $15.00 for a new grad in LTC. Forget hospitals, they don't hire us in them.

[melissa1171]

Which LTC in Massachusetts is paying 15?