Salary: Including or excluding Overtime/Differentials??

[lancerRN2b]

There is alot of discussion on the poor salary rate for nurses. Many say that salary.com even overestimates the $$ nurses make a year. Im wondering if salary.com considers differential pay and overtime pay into the equation. Say a new grad makes 18/yr - which is about 35k/yr. But aren't there differential pay? Say 2-6 dollars extra per hour for working weekend or nights? So that could add 5-10k per year. Plus if you work 10 hours OT per week with time & 1/2 that would be another 10k. So factoring all this a new grad who works nights and works an extra 10 hours a week could make around $55k. Does this make any sense or am I looking at this wrong?

[patwil73]

My first year I made over 60k, base pay was 22/hr, 3.50 night diff, 4 weekends, worked 12 hr shifts with usually 1 day of overtime a week. This was in seattle, wa.

You can make good money here if you look for it. The hospital I work in now offers their employees (I'm agency) incentive shifts, which are 1.5x + 20/hr, most base pay is between 25-30 with differential on top of that. I hear lots of talk of poor pay and am just glad I don't live there.

Pat