What does a Respiratory Therapist in KY start out making?

Does anyone know the answer to this?

I always thought that RT's made decent money, but a lot of the RT's at my hospital are going on to nursing school. Do we make more money than they do?? I'm seeing other threads on this BBS that lead me to believe that they make better money than nurses, if not more.

So why make the switch? The stress of being an RT, perhaps? The stress of being such a key, KEY player in codes?