How much do you make?

charlee55 · Feb 17, 2002

RN

2+ yrs

Home Health

No. Calif.

$28.56/hr casual (no benefits)

& $18.00/hr part time Shift work (24/7 pt, no benefits)

It's important to post where you live. Around here the "average home costs $150,000.

RN-PA, RN · Feb 17, 2002

1. RNC (Certified, Med-Surg. No extra pay for cert.)

2. Eight years as an RN.

3. Med-Surg staff nurse, part-time.

4. $24.55 with $2.40 evening shift differential ($26.95/hr). We don't get any extra pay for working every other weekend, and I receive no benefits. We get time and 1/2 for working every other holiday.

5. Suburb of Philadelphia, PA.

6. ADN

calililly · Feb 17, 2002

I will also post a reply although I am not yet an RN (still a student...2nd semester):

1. Pharmacy Technician

2. 4 years

3. Retail Pharmacy in a large chain

4. $14.67/hr (but I'm part time while I'm in school-I have benefits

under my husband's plan and he works at thesame place I do!)

5. Suburb of Los Angeles, California

:)

calililly

mario_ragucci · Feb 17, 2002

Dave/dplear - I know what you mean - and I know this thread has a purpose, and I am with it.

Sometimes when money gets thrown into an equasion, it breeds jealousy, resentment, greed, all that kinda stuff. Again I say money is important, and I am a student, who ain't trying to buy a home (yet).

I am glad to see folks are disclosing what they make. In previous jobs it was always a secret, and you had to have a special "political talent" in order to negotiate more money with a boss. You know what I mean.

Mario is also coming to the realization that many health care corporations are "for profit" corporations. I can't touch that one with a 10 foot pole yet, but a core understanding I have now is that caring for someone is not in the same boat as $profit$, or money. Just my additional comments, and I hope no one will get mad at me for talking about it, or think I am too long winded.

Teshiee · Feb 17, 2002

I work in NICU 2 YEARS 29.00 hr

Registry 38.00 Level II/III NICU

Inland Empire California

I agree nursing is a business. We all have choices in this profession I work with staff nurses that player hate registry nurses because they make more. I turn around and simply say "Don't hate the player, hate the game!" They can go to an agency or quit and find a better paying job. I am proud of Dplear make that paper why struggle for pennies when you can make dollars.

California's cost of living is high too and I know a good friend of mine made 120k in working registry! It is all up to you. So many nurses settle for raggedy wages. When I came out of nursing school I took a low paying new grad position to learn my specialty then I resigned and started working registry. I made 61K last year and I didn't have to work that hard so you see either you be a HAVE or HAVE NOT! Don't hate the ones that have!

sgavette · Feb 19, 2002

1. RN

2. 1 year LPN; 3 years RN

3. Charge ER

4. $14.90 plus shift differential

mario_ragucci · Feb 19, 2002

Hey Teshiee, don't get all fixated on money, now. Money is just part of this game. There probably are not many nurses at poverty level :-) And if you want to make and save money like a squirrel, that's cool. Much of the reason Mario is going into nursing is for the non-tangable aspects. Don't get me wrong; The money IS important, and i would not want/allow nurses to be treated unfair/taken advantage of.

Nursing is a business - okay. Nursing is an industry - okay. Helping other people is like working on an assembly line - now its getting out of whack, see?

I'm not trying to be Mr. Crusader who works for free, just talking. :-)

I wonder how much the nurses who take care of Ronald Reagan make? What are their bennies like? :-)

Peppurr101 · Feb 19, 2002

1. BSN

2. 19 years

3. ICU/CCU

4. Base rate $28.17 per hour plus night and weekend diff and $8.00 per hour extra shift bonus. Total last year with a LOT of overtime=$80,000

km rn · Feb 19, 2002

RN

17 years

24.00 per hour

benefits - health insurance, poor dental insurance, $15,000 life insurance.

live4today, RN · Feb 20, 2002

1) RN

2) Since March 1987

3) Nurse of many trades, last one being pediatrics

4) $42,000/year made when last worked in year 1997

P.S. I must say that I am sooooooo SHOCKED to see such low wages from when I last worked in nursing until today. Seems like salaries are standing still in nursing, eh?

KKERRN · Feb 20, 2002

RN

18 YEARS EXPERIENCE

28.95/HR EVERY WEEKEND 12 HR SHIFTS

ER

SOUTHWEST OHIO

nursedawn67, LPN · Feb 21, 2002

1. LPN

2. 2 years

3. LTC in Michigan

4. $13.97/hr

:roll