BSN New Graduate Salaries

Hoosier_RN, MSN · Feb 19, 2016

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.

Mine too. She complains about it regularly, and has been at it for 10+ years. Area market is saturated with FNPs

LeChien, BSN, RN · Feb 20, 2016

$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.

I make that ($24) as an LVN with no degree in southern California.

t.houck · Feb 20, 2016

If you can stand it, try looking at jobs in slightly smaller cities in Washington. Work for a year or two, get some experience then move back from Seattle. I work in the tri-cities and make $29/hr with my BSN. And the cost of living is much cheaper here than in Seattle and the pay is comparable.

sergel02, BSN · Feb 20, 2016

I heard Seatlle is a fantastic place to be a nurse but can be tough to get a job and expensive to live in. Ive heard of folks finding good work in the Midwes though, and Nevada too.

Region affects pay quite a bit. A lot of the hospitals in Northern California can pay $40-50 an hour. One new grad program in Sacramento pays close to 100k. One nurse i personally worked with is from the Northeast and says her pay was much less than in the West.

they_see_me_rollin · Feb 20, 2016

Depends on your location. Around $25/hr in Detroit area

kalevra, BSN, RN · Feb 20, 2016

Northern California, average low end of the start rate for new grads is $40.

We hire a lot of travel nurses. I highly recommend getting your foot in the ER or ICU experience for 1 year.

Get in with a travel company, pick up an assignment in Northern California. I have travelers that are taking home $2,000-$3,000 a week (after taxes). Living stipend can range form $1,000-$1,800 a month, which is given to the traveler for their housing and food costs.

I have had many Midwestern and Southern travelers state that working in California is much easier compared to their home states.

It is a very good time to be an ICU or ER experienced nurse at this time.

plinytheRN · Feb 21, 2016

$21 for new grad in Baton Rouge, LA.

nurse1990 · Feb 21, 2016

Canada here so might not be helpful lol 31$. We get taxed more I think than the states tho

DoGoodThenGo · Feb 21, 2016

New York City middle $70k to low or mid $80k per year. Shift differentials and so forth can make a difference.

DoGoodThenGo · Feb 21, 2016

Canada here so might not be helpful lol 31$. We get taxed more I think than the states tho

Come on down to New York in particular NYC and talk about taxes! *LOL*

Figure about 33% give or take from each paycheck total taxes (federal, state, local,)

At least you guys have a single payer national health scheme to show for your taxes.

MunoRN, RN · Feb 21, 2016

Canada here so might not be helpful lol 31$. We get taxed more I think than the states tho

Actually the tax burden in Canada is quite a bit less. In Canada the tax burden is $17,500 per capita, in the US it's $20,300 and that only counts a portion of our healthcare costs, with those costs figured in it's about $25,000 per capita.

2mint · May 20, 2016

Come on down to New York in particular NYC and talk about taxes! *LOL*
Figure about 33% give or take from each paycheck total taxes (federal, state, local,).

Here in SoCal, with my first paycheck, roughly $1K goes to taxes per paycheck...that $23K in taxes....:***: