School Nurse Salary?

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Please state your state and salary as a school nurse. Thank you!

Not sure https://allnurses.com/what-school-nursing-salary-t503745/

dfs1961 Whereabouts in MA are you?

Specializes in School nursing.

MA, 1st year, $41K. On teacher's scale, so hopefully will get at least a little raise if I stay a few years. Have non-nursing BS and BSN.

NC-

Will be making roughly $29,000 until I get my national certification and then it goes to $33,000. This is my first year as a school nurse, but you can't beat the schedule. I have three young children and my oldest is on the autism spectrum, so being able to be more of a help at home is PRICELESS!!

California

Work Mon/Tues/Friday (0.6 FTE)

We are on the same pay scale as teachers and I make 44,000 (first year).

Western NY state. I was just hired 2 months ago and my starting salary is $33,000/ year (sept-june) which sucks. I am in the teacher union but starting teachers make $39,000 so clearly i'm not on the same scale. I work Sept-June, no pay in July and August so my paychecks during those 10 months look decent enough if you forget that I won't get paid at all in the summer! My hourly rate comes out to $23.67 - I can work 10 days in the summer and that's the rate I get paid at then. My day starts at 7:20am and I leave at 2:45pm, not too bad, and I actually get out on time LOL. I'm at the high school (it's actually my alma mater lol) - the HS and MS nurses are "just" RNs. The nurses at the elementary schools are "nurse-teachers" and make a good deal more because they need their Master degrees.

I still have to work every other Saturday at the hospital to earn a little extra money. I was making $23.50 (3-11:30pm shift, fulltime) at the hospital which was about $46,500/year for 12 months. So technically I make slightly more an hour at the school, I just work so many less hours which is why my annual salary is so much less than at the hospital.

The school job is worth it though! So many vacations, waaaay less stress, I'm a lot happier, love what I do, less hours, no horrible management over my head all the time, and I am in state retirement so I can retire in 30 years with a FULL pension. I also get a 2.5% raise a year, and union representation (altho they take out $32/paycheck for the union and $47/paycheck for my retirement, yuck!) I'm due with my first baby in 2 months so this job was just so much more "family friendly" too. My insurance is only $50/month vs $300/month at the hospital (and would have gone up with the baby - and since I make less now I qualify for the state children insurance program) so it's really not *terrible*

Specializes in School Nursing, Public Health Nurse.

Southern California. Full-time 35 hours/week, 2 high schools (plus 1 small continuation school), and I work summer school which comes out to about 210 work days/year. I'm currently at the first step because I'm still under one year of experience: $60,540/year salary. I'm not on the teacher's scale because I'm not in their union. I'm considered an Administrator. Also, because I work summer school my pay is divided by 12 months and not 10 or 11 like the teachers. I do get the California Teacher's Retirement pension which is awesome.

Southeast Virginia. Full time, paid over 10 months, first year, $34k. Not on teacher scale but on a similar one that will increase yearly.

Decrease in yearly salary but increased hourly (if you work it out), and all the vacation - and being on the same schedule as my wife who's a teacher - is invaluable. Already looking for a summer job to make up some of it!

Specializes in Med-Surg, Neuro, Nephrology, Pulmonology.

Cleveland school nurse 5days a week 8-4:30 I make roughly 1,400 bi-weekly.

I am a school nurse in Western Mass. I'm an RN at a Charter School. I work M-F 8-4:45. My first year I made 39,000/year. This is my second year and I am making 43,000/year. I have the option to get paid 10 months or 12 months. I chose 12. I can tutor on Saturdays which would be $30/hour. Also on Massachusetts Teachers Retirement. Can't complain. :)

Specializes in School Nursing.

Ohio $24/hr

Specializes in Pediatric, Obstetrics, Public Health.

TX - $52K/yr

Oh my goodness! I came here to ask the same question and the replies have me very nervous. I took a pay cut when I left hospital nursing but it was fine since it wasn't an apples to apples comparison and the days are much shorter (8 hrs vs 12). When I hired into my district they gave me half credit on the teacher's experience scale. So for 14 years of nursing I got 7 yrs experience pay. I'm in north Texas now and I have my RN/BSN. We are looking to move to TN and I found a school RN job there but the pay is approximately $24K/yr. There is no way I can take a $28K/yr pay cut for the same job. I was hoping it was just a fluke in this one TN district but it appears school nurses are grossly underpaid/undervalued across most of the country. God bless you all for what you do. No job is more important. I have 1,000 kids and 70 staff members under my care, any one could go into cardiac

arrest/anaphylaxis at anytime, and they have. Why don't schools value us???

Specializes in Peds, Oncology.

Northeastern Indiana- 37K salary spread through 12 months, first year as a school RN. Subbed last year, and had 2 years of oncology/med-surg experience. I have my BSN. My hospital pay was actually less than my new salary. I was getting paid just less than $19/hr 36 hrs a week at the hospital to work a horribly understaffed day shift. I hated it. I work Mon-Fri 7:30-3:30. I have two schools which are a block away from each other. An elementary school (425 students) and a middle school (800 students). We have a school nurses union in my district, which is a part of the teachers union. Get state teachers pension. The benefits are great.

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