Re: Iowa - RN Pay Originally Posted by Lylesmom 
I am a recent new grad..as of Nov. last year. I accepted a job at the U of I. They pay salary, then you get shift diff on top $3. for evenings, and $3.50 for nights, when you work a weekend you get $2. an hour, and if you work an extra shift you get $10. an hour. all on top of your base salary. My base salary is $47980. which equals out to $27.76 an hour, as a NEW RN. I'm sure your wife would make much more than that. Plus you get awesome benefits, like IPERS, which is state retirement. hope this helps!
Just curious to know how is working for U of I now with the budget cuts and recent lay offs. I have friends who work there (grads from 2008) and they hate it because of these cuts. The hospital is not replacing nurses who have left and they're getting overloaded with patients. They are so desperate to leave their jobs but won't because they know with the economy the way it is, they won't be able to find another one right now. I also hear the starting pay is no longer the same as you had quoted before. Pay is lower and they don't even have any jobs for new grads right now and according to the nurse recruiter, there won't have any for a while. It's amazing what a year can do!
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