CA wages?

I'm from Central CA, but I travel up north frequently

http://www.Mercy.org/intradoc-cgi/idc_cgi_isapi.dll?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=5005954

That's the CHW site for Northern Ca, it includes the hospitals in Red Bluff, Redding, and Mount Shasta. I don't know about salaries, though. There is another hospital in Redding, was a Tenet Hospital, called Redding Medical, but was sold last year, and I don't know what it is called now.

Other nurses here may be able to help you more.

Good luck!

Where are you living right now? Northern CA gets HOT in the summer, and snow down to Redding in the winter, with I-5 sometimes closed down to Redding. Not a bad place to live, though.

Hello.

I too am relocating to California soon. The starting salary I guess depends n where youre going...however I believe the salary starts at 26.00. Try my salary.com. That will give you a ballpark figure.

i'm down in southern CA, new grads start around $24-26/hr and I know in northern CA its a little more (higher cost of living!)

in the bay area the starting wages are about $33-36 due to the cost of living...with differentials it is even more.

I was looking on another site, and someone had posted that some facilities pay in the $40-50 / hr range. I wonder where that is?

Thanks for all of the info everyone! I sure appreciate it!

i know nurses in the bay area that make about 40-45 an hour. but that is because it is so expensive to live here! i love living in the bay area though and would not want to live anywhere else.

i know nurses in the bay area that make about 40-45 an hour. but that is because it is so expensive to live here! i love living in the bay area though and would not want to live anywhere else.

I heard that it's pretty expensive to live there. I doubt if those kind of wages exist anywhere else though. It would be nice! :)

Here is the current salary scale for UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. We are in the midst of contract negotiations, so wages should increase in a few months :)

http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/hr/hr/cna_steps_04_05.htm

I imagine UCSF has a higher pay scale.

It is known that the UCLA per diem RN pay is lower than that of other area hospitals. Is it the same at Davis?

I imagine UCSF has a higher pay scale.

It is known that the UCLA per diem RN pay is lower than that of other area hospitals. Is it the same at Davis?

Really????? Are you talking about being on the float team @ UCLA (1 yr of adult/1 yr of peds experience minimum) or simply per diem? The float team (in-house registry) gets paid pretty well IMO....I can't imagine other area hospitals paying much more than that unless they are further north...

I was looking on another site, and someone had posted that some facilities pay in the $40-50 / hr range. I wonder where that is?

Thanks for all of the info everyone! I sure appreciate it!

I can't speak to salaries, except that one hospital who came to a job fair in the San Francisco Bay Area said they were starting new grads at $30. Down toward Watsonville; this was 2 years ago.

I absolutely, absolutely would come out and look at houses like you were going to buy. Most people who come to California think they are prepared for the housing prices until they find out that the houses they are buying are so much smaller than they are used to.

I bought into my first house, with a partner, in 1981. At the time, I thought it was expensive. I bought my second house (by myself) in 1988. My house is now worth about 3x what I paid for it. Salaries have not gone up accordingly, and, amazingly, even though we had the "dot com bomb", housing prices have continued to soar. California has one of the highest state income taxes in the country and one of the poorest public school systems (49th out of 50th). We also have a frighteningly huge budget deficit. Don't get me wrong; I love where I live--but if I were coming from somewhere else, I might have a lot of adjustments to make. People buy houses 2 and 3 hours out from the San Francisco Bay Area and *communte* to work in the Bay Area.

Some people have been known to accept a job, maybe even work here for awhile, and realize the lifestyle is not what they bargained for. The Silicon Valley culture has been pretty much a "workaholic" culture--even if you have more time, many of your friends will not.

Don't mean to be so negative, but please be prepared! I remember a while back somebody did a survey and some very huge percentage of Californians were thinking of moving out of the state.

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I imagine UCSF has a higher pay scale.

It is known that the UCLA per diem RN pay is lower than that of other area hospitals. Is it the same at Davis?

I can't speak to the specifics of per diem pay, but a recent Sacramento Bee article did a comparison of wages for staff nurses with 10 years of experience, placing UCDMC on the lower end and Kaiser on the upper end. However, I think the appeal of working at UCDMC lies less in the hourly wages and more in the benefits, all RN staff, collegial nurse-physician relationships, etc. There are many opportunities to go beyond bedside nursing if that is one's interest.