pay freezes

Nurses Activism

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  1. Have nurses at your facility received raises in the past five years?

    • 8
      merit based pay increase
    • 5
      across the board nursing competitive increase
    • 1
      one time bonus for nurses only
    • 2
      hospital wide bonus
    • 6
      hospital wide cost of living increase

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I work in a 700 bed hospital system in North Carolina. Nurses have not received a merit pay increase for the last 5 years. This coincides with the arrival of our current CEO who has received a bonus and pay increase each of those years. Last year the health system announced it would no longer publish the CEO's bonus or pay increase. I can only assume they thought it bad for morale. Nurses did receive an across the board 2% increase two years ago to remain competitive. As someone who has always been an overacheiver, clinical ladder, certification, etc., it is hard to maintain the enthusiasm to go above and beyond with no reward other than personal satisfaction. During this time our maximum PTO accumulation has been cut by 100 hours and PTO accrual cut by 20% per pay period. Hospital match for our 403B was cut for one year but has been reinstated. Are other hospital systems going through the same situation? I am interested to know.

I'd rather not say. Need my job.

Gotcha :)

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

PP is correct about 990's. You can create a free account on Guide Star (GuideStar nonprofit reports and Forms 990 for donors, grantmakers and businesses) and look up information on any not for profit in the US. It's all public record. I have also used 990's to obtain information about grants that are funded by various organizations. Interestingly enough, I have found that the top tier of 'highly compensated executives' rarely includes the Nursing Executive.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

We still get raises, but they are paltry 2-3% barely keep up with inflation. Occasionally they will give the newer nurses an additional competitive raise, but they prefer to give senior nurses a smaller raise with same merit score, apparently this is legal even though one would think this would be age discrimination! I've heard some of the hospitals in the area have had a hiring freeze for at least one of the years. Pensions have been eliminated in some of the hospitals. Mine the pension has been cut twice in the past five years and the 403b match was eliminated a long time ago! Overtime is still an option, but the bonus has been cut for that as well! Overtime is about the only way to make more money these days! Every year our health insurance get worse, with thousands out of pocket! The CEO makes several million a year while the staff get peanuts!

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Specializes in LTC.

1 solution to this. Unionization.

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