New Grad Salary at Our Lady of Lourdes or any Jersey Hospital.

As a new grad RN without experience, you have no leverage for negotiating salary. It's basically take what's offered. Don't know what they're offering in south Jersey, but in central/north, it runs from around $27-$32/hr or so plus differentials. Travel time & staffing play a role as well. I'd rather make a little less, be very close to home and work in a friendly, well staffed hospital than make a couple bucks more an hour and be miserable.

i started as a new grad at OLOL in camden working nights and made btw 26 & 29/hr. the salary at OLOL is pretty competitive. hope that helps!

All Virtua campuses are UNION. There is no negotiation...period. It goes by union payscale alone. Believe very little of what you hear from others, do your own investigation, and do check the facts before posting.

I agree with the first poster....there is very little "negotiation" for Staff RN positions in NJ (at least at "decently-run/"fair" hospitals). Salary practice for Staff RN (bedside/acute care) in NJ is to pay on "years of experience" as an RN (or 1/2 yr credit for LPN). In other words, whether Union or Non-Union, there is generally a "starting new grad RN BASE HOURLY rate", that really doesn't deviate (at all, or much) from one person to the next. That said, there ARE add-ons, such as shift differential, weekend diff (at some places), perhaps a BSN differential. But any hospital worth "it's salt" isn't going "to pay Joe one rate, and Jane a different rate" if they are both new grads coming out of nursing school.....or else they'll have chaos and an unhappy workforce on its hands. There are USUALLY, and I say USUALLY some general rules with Staff RN compensation: inner city, very large or MAJOR teaching hospitals usually pay more, than smaller, community non-teaching hospitals. Unionized hospitals GENERALLY, NOT ALWAYS PAY MORE. (Non-Union hospitals near a unionized hospital will usually try to pay a competitive, eg: "close to", rate, bkz they want to keep the Union out. Plus, at a Unionized hospital, it is COMMON to anywhere from 1% to 2% of your ANNUAL SALARY in union-dues, by payroll deduction.....you have no say in it. North of the Driscoll Bridge (Woodbridge Garden State Parkway Bridge near GSP Exit 127), hrly rates are GENERALLY higher. Below that bridge, rates generally lower....until you get to the Camden, NJ area, bkz those hospitals in South Jersey compete with Philly for Staff RNs.

Also, when "peers" quote their "hourly rates", very often they are (incorrectly) ADDING IN, things that are NOT part of the "base hourly rate", such as shift diff, BSN diff, etc.

I hope this helps. And I'm not going to say there will NEVER be differences in new grad starting rates, but as a general rule, you can take the above info "to the bank". (I used to help set RN rates in a past life......)