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I am about to start nursing school and a good friend of mine said her sister went to LVN school and could only make 9 per hour and decided to quit being an LVN. I told her that hourly rate sounded more like MA or CNA in southern CA but she said it was definately 9.00 as LVN. She is Latino and she said it was probably racial descrimination if 9.00 is too low. I told her I had not seen that anywhere and that in OC LVN's usually start at 17-19 per hour or more.
Am I way off base here? Do Hospitals hire LVN's at 9.00 per hour or any rate this low? What's the lowest hourly rate any of you have seen in Orange County for LVN's?
No Way, unless it was a private person offering that little amount of money...or the person just did not hear right.
I know that Mission Hospital starts in the 20's and I heard with no benefits or prn or float pool, it can be higher. Our education dept that will help find us jobs after graduation said travel nurses here, full time with no benefits will pay in the 30's/hr.
I plan on getting my RN straight away, rolling right into another program, but I also want to work as an LVN, so I am just praying that the estimates of starting pay for LVN's in OC is $41k per year.
Better be close to $41k per year!!!
Thanks,
Deb
Don't listen to everyone out there. I found tons of good jobs at pre op and PACU depts for same day surgery from 18-30/hr depending if you were with a registry or not. Don't listen to all of them, do what you want to do. I start school on June 18th. Stanbridge, and the avg salary in OC, is 41k per year, non nursing home jobs.....mission hosp. is hiring, probably not 30/hr, but better than 15/hr.
take care
deb
ps, I quit nursing school for the same reasons some 15 yrs ago, I will never let someone else keep me from what I know is my dream of becoming an RN one day. I already would have been if I had not gotten scared off by gossip!!
She wasn't an LVN.
$9 for all of that responsibility?? You must be kidding me.
You can check online to see if she has her LVN license.
http://www2.dca.ca.gov/pls/wllpub/wllqryna$lcev2.startup?p_qte_code=VN&p_qte_pgm_code=9110
chuck1234
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I live in New York, but I don't think an LPN gets $9/hr...I know New York and California are the states that pay the nurses the most.
I was an LPN before becoming an RN, and I was working for an agency that paid me $25/hr, and that was a few years ago.