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.
Specializes in Certified Vampire and Part-time Nursing Student.
My base wage is $8.50, and then I get a 50 cent differencial for working the weekend so it turns out to be $9.00. I am disappointed in the base pay which is barely above minimum wage in my state, FL, if I didn't need the patient experience hours for graduate school I would not be working here. I am going to look for another CNA job in a hospital or a better ALF this summer when I have time off school and time to job hunt.
The job itself is not bad- when we are not understaffed- but we have been chronically understaffed lately and it's getting ridiculous. CNAs quit after about 6 months of working there because they don't get paid anything, so they just constantly hire more new aids and they don't give any of the good ones any sort of pay raise or incentive to stay, so the cycle continues. I wonder why my facility has paid to put in call bells if they can't pay enough CNAs to answer them so they're all on all the time...
I live in NY and I have been working at a nursing home so far for 8 months. My starting pay as a CNA was $15.08. Then after 3 months it raised to $15.62. And I just recently got a raise to $16.08 (but this last raise is from the union that I'm with).
drthomas
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My starting pay in 2005 in Wisconsin, was $10.51....know with over 11years experience in the HOSPITAL, my pay is $18.03.