? About Good Pay Rates For Seattle/tacoma As Travler

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I am a first time travler looking for a company. This website is awsome. I am trying to figure out what a good hourly rate is for WA state. I am a cardiac nurse working in the cath pre and post area in Virginia and have no idea about what would be a good or great pay for a travler there. I don't want to get underpayed. Thanks

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Specializes in Cardiac tele, stepdown.

I am currently doing a travel assignment at UW med center in Seattle. This is my first assignment with HRN (There is a local branch in Seattle) but it is my second assignment in this area. I love the area because of the Scuba diving opportunities here.

Another local travel company that I have considered that was started by a couple local RN's and they primarily do Per Diem is Phoenix Healthcare. They pay 45$/hr but do not do housing. I dont know if they have insurance.

I worked with one of the founders and she was very nice.

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Wife is going to Bellingham in July. She will be making 29.75 plus paid furnished housing and full benefits.

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Specializes in med/surg, tele, CCU, ICU, travel nurse.

I was a traveler for 2 years. When comparing the pay of various companies you need to compare apples to apples, oranges to oranges. My advise to you, and what I always did, was ask the company what the MAXIMUM pay is. What this means is, what will you get GROSS PER MONTH for forgoing everything? (no housing, no insurance, no car, etc.) A high paying agency will tell you about $7000.00 per month for a 48 hr work week. I did it this way because the companies vary so much on all the other variables such as housing, overtime, bonuses, etc. This was the only way I could compare them all evenly. You'll find that California and a few places back east are the highest paying. Mountain states tend to be the lowest. I'd say for Seattle depending on how desperate they are, you could probably get $7000 per month out of them only because the housing might be pretty expensive. Do research on the area and come up with a number in your head. Tell them this is what you want and if they don't give you that you will go somewhere else!

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Pay, insurance, housing all vary from company to company - determine what you need and what company can best give it to you!

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Specializes in Medsurg, Tele, ICU.
Wife is going to Bellingham in July. She will be making 29.75 plus paid furnished housing and full benefits.

For what area? Med surg? Tele? ICU? By the way, I just came back from a visit to that area. Beautiful!

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Telemetry.

I know a traveler that makes $32/hr for night shift in Seattle (Plus furnished housing)

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