I know this question gets asked a lot both here and in other CNA FB groups but I'm looking for more specific answers because I feel that this information is often misleading or inaccurate. If you google "CNA starting pay" you'll get a lot of figures like "the AVERAGE pay of a CNA is $13hr" but "average pay" is not the same as "starting pay" and most of us have probably been shocked a time or two when we get offered a low ball pay rate thats closer to $9.50hr instead of the average pay we found on Google.
So here is my more specific question about CNA starting pays: how much was your starting pay at a new facility, with and/or without experience? Were you promised a pay increase after a certain period of time like a 90 day probation period? How long before you got your first raise and how much was it? I'll start...
My starting pay was $9.50hr with three years of home Healthcare experience but no CNA experience. I was told I'd get a pay increase after a 90 day probation period and I never did. I got my first raise after my one year anniversary at this facility and it was for .15 cents. I live in southern Colorado and we house on average 72 residents while working with the minimum amount possible of CNAs. Our green unit CNAs often work the hall by themselves most of the time because we're so short staffed and our benefits are crap.
I make $14.40 an hour base pay at a hospital on the MICU floor with 1.5 years experience. Shift differentials are 2.15 for evenings, 3.10 for nights, and 2.50 for weekends. I live in southwestern Connecticut.
I work at a large hospital in GA. As a PCT, making only $10.38 an hour. I was very disappointed in my starting wage, but it seems I work in a state that has a low cost of living, and work for a hospital that doesn't pay the employees very much, I was shocked to learn that some of the RN's they hire only start out at slightly over $ 22.00 an hour, which I feel they are way underpaid as well.
My state stinks when it come to pay. I'm in IN. In 2012 in was a new CNA making $9 +$1 evening shift diff...I lasted abt 6 weeks and started on a Med Surg floor at 10.85 + 1.25 night shift diff. I left that job and made more working as a lab assistant. Now I make 13.50 including shift diff. Took a pay cut to come back as an aid in the hospital.
At a state facility in Louisiana CNA start with 8.06. Of course there is shift diff for evening, nights, and weekends. But still not nearly enough for all the work we do.
I start working in 2012 and I make like 9 dollar in South dakota, but then I start working in the night and I believe I was making 11 30 differential include and years of experience too, in 2014 I work in NorthDakotaand I make 14 90 and that was more than expected comparing that with SD,then I make in Nd in another place like 15 plus 1.50 differential and I move to MN and Now I make 16.77 no differential still better than the other places so I'm very happy specially because I always live with somebody so that allow me to save a lot of money.
I work in an assisted living community where AL is optional. I had zero prior experience to getting this job. I started at 11.50, and now I make $12 an hour, with a dollar extra per hour on the weekends.
I definitely don't have it as bad as some communities do. The majority of the work I do is medication assistance, showers, and dressing.
Michigan Nursing home chain 11.50 starting (union building), if I was in a non union building I would make 13.00 starting with no CNA experience. Michigan Hospital home health care, 12.20 starting with no CNA experience, normal shift premiums.
I became certified as a CNA in August 2015, applied to the Nursing Home/Rehabilitation of a private hospital on Long Island, NY..and my starting pay (per diem) is $19 an hour
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I make $14.40 an hour base pay at a hospital on the MICU floor with 1.5 years experience. Shift differentials are 2.15 for evenings, 3.10 for nights, and 2.50 for weekends. I live in southwestern Connecticut.