What was your hourly wage at your first job as a new grad?

Back in the dark ages (1977) when the minimum wage was under $3/hr, I started as a GN at $5.35/hr in a large teaching hospital in the south. It was the most money I'd ever made in my life, and by the time I got my board results I'd managed to save over $5000- alot for a 22 yr old just out of college. After I got my RN I made $8 & change/hr. I am now at $34/hr, at a small ambulatory facility in the midwest. Gosh I feel old!!

I graduated in 1992 and started a job at a Nursing Home making $10.98 and hour. I don't know what that same job start at today.








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I completed LPN school in October 2005 and started working in February 2006 at a small nursing home for $17.75 hourly. I now work at a larger nursing home for $18.50 hourly.

started 2001 at 16.55

I started at $7.50/hour in 1980, in a hospital.

I started 2 months ago at 19.55/hr in a small nursing home.

When I started as a nursing assistant (1976) I made $2.05/hour and I lived on my own! That was with night differential too!

When I graduated with my LPN (1992) - I was making about $9/hour in LTC. When I graduated with my ADN (1994) - I made $13/hour - VA hospital.

My first LPN job - 1992: 15.00/hr, in MD.

My first RN job - 1993: 13.18/hr, in TX. (Like Trauma above, this was with the VA hospital system)

Boy was THAT an eye opener. Who'd a thunk I take a serious pay cut to become an RN.

That was the difference between working as an LPN in a LTC facility in trouble with the state for poor staffing and willing to suffer not having an immediate relief here and there, and then working as an RN in a hospital environment that was staffed. . .

~faith,
Timothy.

I finished in 1997 and made 12.00/hr in South Carolina though I live in georgi and they only strted out at 9.00/hr.

Presently, I make 17.00 at my full time job and 25.00/hr at my weekend opt job