Is US30 per hour in San Francisco a good starting salary?

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I am being offered $30 per hour in San Francisco, is that ok or not? I am not familiar with the cost of living in SFO.

Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

$40 to $50 hourly is decent money to work as an RN in San Francisco. I would not accept $30 to work in SF as an RN because I know of LVNs who work in the San Francisco Bay area at pay rates of $27 to $30 hourly.

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How is the commute from the family friendly areas to the hospitals? Do people drive?? Also... are they actually affordable..and Im talking a house (even a rental)..not an apt. ...

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Your offer in LA was a lot higher than this USD30, wasn't it?

Geena

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Yeah, but that is not a closed deal and somebody warned me that the hospital's location isn't a safe place. I gotta shy away from that $32-LA offer.

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I am being offered $30 per hour in San Francisco, is that ok or not? I am not familiar with the cost of living in SFO.

This is a good example of how these corporate hospitals are reaching out to foreign nurses and undercutting the pay. If only they could oursource the patients, there'd be no nursing jobs in the US at all.

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This is a good example of how these corporate hospitals are reaching out to foreign nurses and undercutting the pay.

I have to agree with this. $30 in San Fran is so outrageously low, that it does seem to prove that they do pay foreign nurses a lot less. People keep saying that the law requires them to pay foreign nurses the same but, when you read the rates posted by foreign nurses on this board ... it really seems like they are being ripped off.

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I am a foreign nurse. After reading your ongoing rant about how foreign nurses bring down the salaries - I just cannot help but to join - I was offered 45 plus benefits. Did not expect that much but who am I to argue - I took it. They are happy - I am happy.

Guys, let's not genaralise. It's boring. Geena

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Sorry ... I didn't mean to overgeneralize. It's just when you read $30 in San Fran as well as other low rates posted by some foreign nurses ... you can't help but think something is wrong.

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Sorry ... I didn't mean to overgeneralize. It's just when you read $30 in San Fran as well as other low rates posted by some foreign nurses ... you can't help but think something is wrong.

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However, these foreign nurses are naive and undereducated about pay rates, so many will jump for joy and think that a $30 per hour job offer is a whole lot of money. $30 is average for the Los Angeles area and horrendously low for the San Francisco Bay area. Never in a million years would I work as an RN in San Francisco for $30 per hour when new hires without experience start at $40 per hour.

LVNs in San Francisco earn $27 to $30 hourly. Common sense should dictate that RNs in that area are to earn more.

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I am a foreign nurse. After reading your ongoing rant about how foreign nurses bring down the salaries - I just cannot help but to join - I was offered 45 plus benefits. Did not expect that much but who am I to argue - I took it. They are happy - I am happy.

Guys, let's not genaralise. It's boring. Geena

Let's not generalize. Lets's be quite specific. I feel that as long as there is an American that is qualified and wants a job at the 'normal' rate----that the job should go to an American (I'm talking about in America of course). I know of no other country that gives jobs to foreigners like the US does. Then to top it off, many slots in our schools are saved for foreigners. At the tuition they pay, you can see why.

I've worked in many fields and I see nursing going the way of the construction industry. If the 'business' of health care could outsource it they would. In many of these third world countries, they need their nurses more than we do. "Reading your ongoing rant"----a little hyperbole there wouldn't you say?

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However, these foreign nurses are naive and undereducated about pay rates, so many will jump for joy and think that a $30 per hour job offer is a whole lot of money. $30 is average for the Los Angeles area and horrendously low for the San Francisco Bay area. Never in a million years would I work as an RN in San Francisco for $30 per hour when new hires without experience start at $40 per hour.

LVNs in San Francisco earn $27 to $30 hourly. Common sense should dictate that RNs in that area are to earn more.

I hear you. Good exchange of information on this site - plus links to other sites - should give some indication to what to expect moneywise. I found the link to the salaries adjusted to the COL most interesting.

I suspect that a foreign nurse would take the biggest pay cut if there is one of these agencies involved in the hiring process. Many of them target the nurses in the developing world. The nurse gets offered what sounds like a lot of money - the agency provides a facility labour at a lower rate and on the side makes a ton of money on the nurse as well as the facility. Bad business.

Sorry Liz and the Commuter - didn't mean to be blunt. You are 100% right.

The information is out there - and accessible all over the world.

Sorry I'm off topic now.

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The pay is low because the hospital is going to pay for all the immigration expenses, that's what I am thinking.

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