California HD RN & labor law

NurseRies, BSN, RN · Nov 13, 2015

California RNs get time and a half pay after 8 hours and double time pay after 12 hours. I believe that it's state law, probably because most of the hospitals or all of them are unionized. I worked in southern California briefly.. it seems that acute dialysis nurses make in the $40-60 /hr range. I wouldn't accept less then $40 in CA. This probably sounds amazing coming from Illinois, but just important to keep in mind that a house likely will cost $400-700,000 for a middle class family home. Not to mention that gas is much higher, groceries, and well it seems like everything. I think there's a lot of job openings for acute dialysis nurses in any large market area. California is a very densely populated state, so there are a lot of openings. The nurses I worked with were quite unhappy because Davita sort of required them to work 18-24 hour days.. I'm sure the overtime pay was great, but who wants to live like that just to afford a $5/gallon tank of gas?

GlennGanza · Nov 15, 2015

Thanks for explaining the labor law OT reasons. I believed Cali RN are well compensated base on standard of living among other big taxes high standard of living states such as IL, NY, NJ. I must say the housing is too much if you decide to buy a house in Cali. Otherwise, I can say, we, in IL RN are not compensated because we have higher taxes than Cali, our groceries have taxes unlike Cali, starting salary at 23/hr, real estate taxes are high here also (but cheaper median housing price) and if San Francisco has $5/Gal gas, Chicago has it too. Our OT kicks in after 40 hours. I appreciate the reply.