Pay rate of a Rn State Surveyor. Any surveyor

[refreshmentnarco]

How much to expect as a State Surveyor? What is the job like? Does the pay rate go up. I do know it is salary and benefits are good. Im just wondering if the pay is on par with the work? I work in a hospital and can't complain about the pay but bedside work is the deal. Anyway am looking into the survey job.

[elkpark]

I worked as a hospital surveyor for my state and CMS for several years in the early 2000s (acute care hospitals, not LTC, which I would hear was an entirely different world). The salary was ridiculously low, although the benefits were good (sort of like teaching jobs in nursing vs. clinical positions). We used to "bond" with the newer nurse surveyors by swapping tales of how big a pay cut we took to take the job. I enjuoyed my job v. much; I left because our team supervisor retired and the person who was hired to replace her was a train wreck, and the job sort of fell apart after that (everyone left, not just me), and some things going on in my personal life at the same time.

Also, the state legislature was dealing with a state budget deficit by putting a freeze on all state salaries, so none of us got raises. I left after four years making not a penny more than I had been making to begin with, despite having taken on additional responsibilities during that time and winning a "Surveyor of the Year" award. State jobs are vulnerable to that sort of thing; although that's also possible in the private sector, I've never heard of a situation where no one got any raise (no possibility of a raise, even cost-of-living) for that long.

I don't know anything about what kind of position you're applying for, but mine involved a lot of travel (being away from home at least one night every week, typically more than one night). A lot of people didn't last because they found they didn't care for the travel and being away from home so much.

[VivaLasViejas, ASN, RN]

I made less than $5K/month, which was considerably less than I'd made as a DNS. The benefits were great, though. I didn't stay because it wasn't a good fit for me; there was much more travel involved than I'd been led to believe, and since my husband has cancer I didn't want to be away from him so much. The QIS computer software is extremely complex and I just could. not. grasp. it. But everyone is different, and some people thrive on the lifestyle.....as long as you don't have a family or pets, it's great.

[madwife2002, BSN, RN]

Depends where you live-I know in Ohio the pay for a stet surveyor is very poor