Starting pay at Beaumont

Don't quote me if I'm wrong because I'm just going off memory from previous posts, but I believe it's around $23-24.

If you search through the Michigan threads, I'm sure you'll find your answer

It is $ 24.06/h.

wow. i currently live in california, and i am surprised that michigan wages are so low. i was investigating because my family is in michigan and i was thinking about moving back there.

since we just boomed to crazy housing prices maybe it is still worth it; not sure if i could deal with the pay cut from 100K (average nor-cal wage) to 60K (average MI wage?). thanks for posting up the numbers guys. it helps me do my pros and cons.

The cost of living here is so much lower. You might find your 60,000 in michigan will buy you a lot more than your 100,000 would in northern california.

Use this neat tool http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/costo...form&x=51&y=14 It's this neat calculator someone once posted. According to CNN money 100,000 in san francisco is comprable to 56,000 in metro detroit so you'd actually come out ahead if you moved back in theory.

oh, that is a nice tool; helps me put some numbers together

i'm working at a magnet hospital and was looking at beaumont since i think it is magnet also. although, i do dialysis and so most of the work in michigan (like here in california) is probably contractual (eg. davita)

Not sure if you have kids (or intend to in the future), but if you'd be willing to live in SW Michigan, I recall seeing postings lately for one of the dialysis centers in the Kalamazoo area, which is where the Kalamazoo Promise will pay up to 100% of your kids' college education (four years at any public school in Michigan).

Typical price for a standard 3BR house is in the $80K-$150k range here. Friends in Cali say that my house (approx $130K market value here, with .5 acres, inground pool, 2BR/1.5ba) would go for roughly $500K where they live. HUGE difference! A 2BR apt runs around $500+, to give you an idea of the rental market.

We're less than an hour from the Lake Michigan beaches, and halfway between Chicago and Detroit on I-94. It's a nice little area to live in - not so small you feel like a redneck, but not so big that you're dealing with traffic and smog, either.