Anyone here work in Michigan?

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Specializes in ICU.

What is the starting salary for a new nurse with a BSN in the Detroit Metro area? What should I expect per hour? What is the cost difference in a hospital vs a doctor's office? What are different areas to specialize in and what are the pay differences?

I am a dental hygienist contemplating a career change into nursing for various reasons, and would like to get an idea of what kind of pay I should expect should I change careers.

Thanks in advance!

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Specializes in Psychiatry.

http://salaries.com/

Try that

I work at the Ann Arbor VA and I made $50k/yr fresh out of nursing school

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

I've moved this thread to the Michigan Nurses forum in order to amass some responses from people who live and work in the aforesaid area. Good luck to you!

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What is the starting salary for a new nurse with a BSN in the Detroit Metro area? What should I expect per hour? What is the cost difference in a hospital vs a doctor's office? What are different areas to specialize in and what are the pay differences?

I am a dental hygienist contemplating a career change into nursing for various reasons, and would like to get an idea of what kind of pay I should expect should I change careers.

Thanks in advance!

I'm curious what kind of pay dental hygienists make? One of my fellow nursing students worked as a dental assistant and said that hygienists make the same as nurses. Is that not true?

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Specializes in MPCU.

Just a thought. The salaries calculators seem a little wrong. I think it has to do with overtime. If I don't consider overtime, I fall in the under 10% category. If I look at a years wages including 12 hrs a pay period average overtime, I'm in the upper 90%.

Chocokitten's figure for the Ann Arbor area holds true for the Detroit Michigan area.

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Specializes in ICU.
I'm curious what kind of pay dental hygienists make? One of my fellow nursing students worked as a dental assistant and said that hygienists make the same as nurses. Is that not true?

Hygienists supposedly make around $60,000 in MIchigan, however there are too many of us and not enough jobs, and this is driving the wages down everywhere. There is practically no full time, and rarely any benefits. The hourly wage is a bit more than it would be for a nurse, but there are no benefits, and not really any full time or overtime, so in the end I think that it would all equal out.

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