LPN starting pay $26.50!

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My brother just finished up his LPN school a few months ago, he got hired here in the metro detroit area in MI for $26.50 starting.

I am attending the same school he went to, I am half way done and will be graduating in 9 months I was hoping people in other states could help me guide my search for high-paying LPN cities in different states.

Specializes in LTC, Alzheimer's, Home Care, Pediatrics.

hmmm im making 21.00 in north jersey for an agency with no benifits I must be nuts!

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Specializes in OB.

BburgNurse,

Just curious where you work? I am looking for work in a LTC here in Indy.

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Specializes in Coronary Rehab Unit.

When I met my wife (whitewater rafting for 8 days 7 nights through the Grand Canyon), she lived in suburban Detroit...... I mad many flights out tosee her before moving there, and whilst we were doing our long distance romance thang, she slipped a t-shirt into my carry-on which read "I'm so BAD I VACATION IN DETROIT !!!"

At that time, I was living in suburban Philly, and, beings as everyone thought the worst of The Motor City, the shirt was a big hitwhenever/wherever I wore it...LOL. We've since moved south, but Detroit is just another big American city, for better and for worse. Suburbs are suburbs....... My only gripe with living in the Metro Detroit area was that winters were insufferably long and dreary .... who feels like shoveling 12" of snow to get your cars out of the driveway, only to come home to find a wall of frozen street snow having been plowed back up into your driveway after the streets got plowed (this was a suburb thang - I don't thini Detroit had the $$$ to plow all their sidestreets, just the main thoroughfares...). Not to mention that Detroit apparently sits atop a major salt mine, so salt is cheap and HEAVILY used on the roads..... I must say - life in Tennessee is far more agreeable - pay rates are lower, but so is the cost of living, and the weather is a LOT nicer :yeah:

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Specializes in LTC,HOSPITAL,HOME CARE,TRAVELING.

I made $28 and change for working a weekend program at teh hospital.That was weekend bonus for just working weekends and night shift.We also got a bonus every 3 months.If the holiday didn't fall on the weekend you didn't work it.After 5 years though the 45 min ride one way bout killed me.Northeast ohio.

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keenay....have you found anything.

I am sorry, nothing yet still looking. I have my ny license now. My job search just started. I am sorry to take so long to answer you. I didn't check allnurses for a long time.

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Specializes in A little of this & a little of that.

My area, CT, the per-diem pay is around $30 and regular pay with benefits is around $24 an hour. But, the cost of living is extremely high here. This is for nursing homes. Not many hospitals hire LPN's here.

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Specializes in LTC (LPN-RN).
per diem in Chicago is 27 or so an hour

I am interested.

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Specializes in ICU, Telemetry, Cardiac/Renal, Ortho,FNP.

Good news...your in the right profession!

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Specializes in Mostly geri :).
I made $28 and change for working a weekend program at teh hospital.That was weekend bonus for just working weekends and night shift.We also got a bonus every 3 months.If the holiday didn't fall on the weekend you didn't work it.After 5 years though the 45 min ride one way bout killed me.Northeast ohio.

Wow....can you tell me where please? PM me if you don't want to say on the boards, that sounds so nice..................

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I'm in Iowa, work for the state, just graduated. Starting pay $18.63, free insurance for worker and family, plus other benefits. However, I beleive this is the hightest starting pay for LPN around Iowa I have heard of.

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Specializes in LTC.

I'm a new grad LPN making 22.50 an hour. This is the most money I've ever made in my life so I'm very happy.

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Specializes in long term care, nursing home.

what facility do your work at? I am lic pending and looking for employment

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