BSN New Graduate Salaries

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Question for all of you nurses. What is the salary range for BSN new graduates for 2016? I'm currently in the Midwest, Saint Louis area but looking to return to Seattle, Washington after graduation.

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Specializes in Pedi.

It's highly variable depending on your location. I'd hazard to guess it's higher in Seattle than St. Louis, if you can find a job that is. Seattle seems like somewhere that would have a glut of new grads and a lot of heavy competition, especially with UW consistently ranked as one of the best undergraduate nursing programs in the country.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

Same as the ASN salary range.

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A shade over 26/hr in an Atlanta metro area hospital

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.
Question for all of you nurses. What is the salary range for BSN new graduates for 2016? I'm currently in the Midwest, Saint Louis area but looking to return to Seattle, Washington after graduation.
As a new grad, your job prospects would be better in the Midwest than in Seattle. I wouldn't relocate without a firm job offer.

Anyhow, St. Louis facilities start new grads in the low to mid $20s per hour, whereas Seattle facilities pay slightly more due to high costs of living in the Pacific Northwest.

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Specializes in Tele/Med Surg/Psych.

$27 an hour Chicagoland, average

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$23/24 in central Virginia area. My suggestion is STAY in school but work as a RN and get youself into a MSN-FNP program. Many places it's one day a week of school and after a few quarters 180 hours of clinicals a quarter. So work F,S,S night 7p to 7a. Make your money with having health insurance, use you time of for school and clinicals during the week. Suck it up for 2 more years and now make real money as a provider. My wife is 4 weeks away from being a Family Nurse Practitioner with her MSN. She already has 4 offers all of them in the 6 figures.

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As a new grad, your job prospects would be better in the Midwest than in Seattle. I wouldn't relocate without a firm job offer.

Anyhow, St. Louis facilities start new grads in the low to mid $20s per hour, whereas Seattle facilities pay slightly more due to high costs of living in the Pacific Northwest.

And people on this site are always talking about how nurses make such great pay. Not.

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.
My suggestion is STAY in school but work as a RN and get youself into a MSN-FNP program.
What if the OP doesn't want to be a FNP? Seeing 30 to 40 patients per 9-hour day is not everyone's idea of a good gig, no matter how great the pay is.
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It's $34 at the Philadelphia teaching hospital that my bf just started at. Probably pretty standard for the downtown area since the hospitals are pretty competitive with each other.

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What are you talking about? What Family Nurse Practitioner is seeing 40 patients per 9-hour shift day in and day out? Your very misinformed. NP's provide high quality primary health care and never resort to just 10 to 12 minutes per patients when in practice.

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.
What are you talking about? What Family Nurse Practitioner is seeing 40 patients per 9-hour shift day in and day out? Your very misinformed. NP's provide high quality primary health care and never resort to just 10 to 12 minutes per patients when in practice.
Never say never...the FNP who sees me spends 10 minutes with me at the most (often less), and she must remain at the doctors office until the last patient has left.
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