RN Salary Survey 2013: Post here!

[ItsColduphere]

Greetings!

After reading past informal survey posts on allnurses, I wanted to pose this question for 2013. The intent of this post to to give myself and others a good range of pay for nurses across the US right now based on experience and location. This will be an informal guide for me to start a masters paper on (Subject: area cost of living and nurses salary). Several years ago I believe Houston was voted for best place for a nurse with cost of living adjusted, but I think this might be changing.

Things to note while reading other's salaries:

-Generally, high paying locations relate to high cost of living (SF, NYC, etc). The reverse seems to be true as well (lower cost of living=lower pay). 65$/hr may be the norm in San Francisco, but the average 1br apartment is $2800 without parking and a house costs well over $1 million. Please take this into account. We live in a big country and cost of living varies widely (especially housing costs)

If you post, please state your:

1. State you work in

2. Years of experience

3. Specialty/unit and work setting (clinic, hospital, prison, etc)

4. Hourly Pay (base rate) or salary

5. Differentials (if any)

6. Union?

[2011_RN]

1. State you work in. IN

2. Years of experience. 1.5 years

3. hospital, telemetry

4. Hourly Pay. 26.00

5. Differentials, night 3.00 Weekend 2.25

6. Union? No

[hollie91999]

Job 1

1.Northern CA

2. 2 years

3. NICU/Peds

4. $ 36.92 base, $2.00 eve,$4.50 noc. I pay $400 a month for medical and dental

5. CNA

Nice homes can be bought for &250,000-$300,000

Job 2 (starting soon)

1. Northern CA

2. Adult med/Surg combined with Peds

3. $52.00 base, $13.00 on-call differential, $5.62 eve, $9.00 noc. No out of pocket cost for dental /medical for whole family.

4. CNA

[gmondina]

1. California

2. 8 years LVN 5 years RN

3. SNF

4. $47.00/Hr + 1 - 2 hours OT

[gmondina]

1. California

2. 8 years as an LVN, 5 years as an RN and ongoing

3. SNF

4. $47/Hr, 1 - 2 hours required OT everyday, no shift differential

5. Non-union

[gmondina]

1. California

2. Still on orientation! (6th week to be exact)

3. Inpatient surgical floor in a 300+ bed hospital

4. $49/hr (hired as per diem)

5. $7/hr per diem differential; $2.70 = PMs, $4.60 = NOCs, $1.60 = Weekends

6. Yes, California Nurses Association

Where do you work?

[gunrock]

It seems like the west and east coast get paid the most? Although I've heard MN also pays well.

[registerednutrn, BSN, RN]

1. Texas Panhandle

2. 7 years

3. Med/surge

4. 29.00 2.50 nights 4.00 weekends 3.00 preceptor 2.00 relief charge

5. No union

Cost of living here not too bad. I own my home so not sure about rent but I know a basic 2 bedroom apartment is around 700 to 1000 month depending on location a house usually around 1000 to 2000 depend on location

[ChipNurse]

1-Ohio (Northeast, Ohio; large magnet status hospital)

2-New Grad

3-SICU

4-24.25; rotating day/nights, every other weekend. $1 shift diff for nights (used to be $5, but they got rid of it right before I started); no diff for weekends (they also just cut the weekender program), $0.65 for ICU (but they cut that just recently, but I am grandfathered in). Also, I have to get my BSN within 5 years (per my contract), they have a $5000 tuition reimbursement (just waiting for that to be cut)

5-No union

Cost of living isn't terrible. A 3 bedroom house, 1500 sf house in a suburb is around $125-200,000 (depending on which city); taxes ~$4000; Gas $3.50/gallon; food is outrageous though

[Nursequestion]

1. CA

2. 6

3. MS/Tele

4. Hourly pay: 39.10

5. Nightshift diff=4.25/hr. no weekend diff. on call pay 6.25 hr

6. Union=Yes

[cp2012]

1. TN

2. New Grad

3. Occupational Health

4. $28/hr

5. None

5. No

[MercyRN2007]

1. MD

2. 6 yrs

3. Ambulatory Surgery Center Manager

4. 87500 salaried w/ bonuses

5. None, but excellent benefits - fully paid family medical premiums, 80% tuition reimb., etc., no nights, wkends, or holidays.

No.

Previously -

1. MD

2. 6 yrs

3. OR

4. 31.10/hr

5. $2 evening, $4 night and weekend, time and half with min. 3 hrs for call-ins when on-call.

6. no

[AlphaPig]

This is depressing me - so many of your make more $$$. But, I guess in general the cost of living is relatively low in FL (no state income tax) but in this urban area houses and gas and food is expensive!

1. State you work in - FL

2. Years of experience - 4

3. Specialty/unit and work setting (clinic, hospital, prison, etc)- 450 bed urban hospital med/surg

4. Hourly Pay (base rate) or salary- $26.60 full time or $32.50 PRN (I'm currently PRN but thinking of switching to full time for the benes)

5. Differentials (if any)- Not sure about night shift (differential starts at 1900 so I never see it) weekends I think is only $1.25/hr

6. Union- Nope!