Any bedside nurses making over 100K ?

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Hi all,

I would like to know if there are any nurses who make at or over 100k per year just working as an RN - not CRNA, Advanced Practice etc., just bedside nursing... and how do you do it, overtime, premium pay etc. or any other combination that works for you and where are you located? I know east and west coasters tend to make more. I'm asking because I want to increase my income so that I can knock out some student loans before going back to school and piling more on. Thanks for any and all replies.

Specializes in Ortho, Med surg and L&D.
Hi all,

I would like to know if there are any nurses who make at or over 100k per year just working as an RN - not CRNA, Advanced Practice etc., just bedside nursing... and how do you do it, overtime, premium pay etc. or any other combination that works for you and where are you located? I know east and west coasters tend to make more. I'm asking because I want to increase my income so that I can knock out some student loans before going back to school and piling more on. Thanks for any and all replies.

Oh, as a cook county IL resident I have heard that due to slow hiring practices and overtime abuses at certain county hospitals that some nurse salaries have indeed been absurdly high. *some* and no doubt there are politics and abuses invovled.

Possilby a google search with Cook County Hospital RN salaries or something along that line will pull it up. I don't know where to find it as it wasn't that important to me to hear another Cook County scandal,,,yawn.

Gen

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Personally I think time with family, friends, and just time to myself is worth FAR more than making lots of money. Working 6 days, doubles, etc???? No way. It's not worth it.

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If I worked FT, I'd make about 80-90,000. I like alot of down-time, though. This is in Texas.

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If I worked FT, I'd make about 80-90,000. I like alot of down-time, though. This is in Texas.

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Well with my new job I will gross much more than 100k this year, but I am not a nurse yet so I don't count.

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Well with my new job I will gross much more than 100k this year, but I am not a nurse yet so I don't count.

Well is this new job a nursing job? If you are going to be brand new what kind of job is paying that much and where? I don't see how a new nurse would be paid that much. Here they start at $15/hr in the hospitals. $17 for nights. And they make it so you can rarely get overtime.

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Specializes in Emergency room, med/surg, UR/CSR.
$46/hr for a new grad? I think I will cry now....

Yeah, but it's expensive to live in California. San Francisco is a beautiful city, but I don't think I would like to live there because of how expensive it is. My fiance keeps telling me about the benefits of living in Alaska. I think nursing shortage up there, the pay is good, and all residences get a profit sharing check each year from the pipeline, so you probably could make good money up there. I told my fiance though that I wouldn't mind visiting, I don't want to live there and be that far from future grandbabies! ;)

Pam

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Specializes in NICU.

If I continue to work the next six months the same as the last six months, I'll pass $100,000 this year. I try to work one extra shift every two weeks. I had almost 4 weeks vacation in that time, with no extra shifts.

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Yes, it's expensive to live in California, but it's not that much cheaper to live in many other metropolitan areas to justify such an enormous discrepancy in pay. I don't begrudge the new grads $46/hr, really I don't, even though experienced nurses in many large areas are still making under $30/hr. I know I'm :deadhorse , but wage compression just irks me no end and I will always rant until it goes away.

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Well is this new job a nursing job? If you are going to be brand new what kind of job is paying that much and where? I don't see how a new nurse would be paid that much. Here they start at $15/hr in the hospitals. $17 for nights. And they make it so you can rarely get overtime.

I think some people may be living on Fantasy Island .

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Well is this new job a nursing job? If you are going to be brand new what kind of job is paying that much and where? I don't see how a new nurse would be paid that much. Here they start at $15/hr in the hospitals. $17 for nights. And they make it so you can rarely get overtime.

If some HR person offered me $15 and hour after all the blood, sweat and tears I put into school, I'd kick them square in the nuts! :lol2:

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I live on the East Coast with 18 years experience and I barely make $50,000./year.

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