Can salary change, after one year experience?

[ANNIENURSEANGEL]

THIS DECEMBER, I WILL HAVE MY YEAR IN AS A RN. IS THERE A BIG SALARY DIFFERENCE, ONCE SOMEONE GETS THEIR YEAR EXPERIENCE IN?

[tojal1989]

depends on your hospital, and whether it's unionized. where i work we have 1% raise every year we work there

[DutchRN09]

No....

[Lunah, MSN, RN]

Where I was a new grad, one year meant going from an RN1 to and RN2, which came with a 10% raise. You should ask this question to your employer; as you can see from the answers so far, it's not the same everywhere.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

THIS DECEMBER, I WILL HAVE MY YEAR IN AS A RN. IS THERE A BIG SALARY DIFFERENCE, ONCE SOMEONE GETS THEIR YEAR EXPERIENCE IN?

Over the past three years, an increasing number of healthcare facilities have not given any pay raises to staff members while citing a 'difficult economic climate.' Interestingly enough, many of these same facilities are posting record profits that enable the CEOs and people in upper management to receive nice raises in pay.

[abakrn819]

Our facility gives raises every year to all staff that qualify (good review, have worked at least a year). So, because I have been hired at our facility for a year, I got a raise, and also a bonus this year. But, it really had nothing to do with "having a year of experience as a nurse," mainly just working for the company long enough! Like everyone else has said, ask around to other nurses to see what happened to them, ask your supervisor, ect to get specifics about where you work.

[xtxrn, ASN, RN]

Yeah- it has more to do with how long you work for the facility. When/if you go work somewhere else, you should get 'credit' for being experienced with a pay difference- but it's not a huge amount per year.

What I was making 7 years ago (with 19 years experience) is laughed at here by new grads in some areas. It's very different between areas of the country, rural vs urban, and also hospital vs LTC vs office.....

[joanna73, BSN, RN]

We receive about 2.25 per year. Once you reach the 9 year mark, you're capped, except for standard cost of living increments.

[CCL RN, RN]

Union here-we get a raise every year. Caps at 30 yrs...

[MrChicagoRN, RN]

Where I was a new grad, one year meant going from an RN1 to and RN2, which came with a 10% raise. You should ask this question to your employer; as you can see from the answers so far, it's not the same everywhere.

At least two large medical centers have clinical ladders that allow the new nurse to apply for promotion after 1-2 years of experience.

8 & 10% respectively, in addition to yearly merit raises.

Both are Magnet & non-union

[Lunah, MSN, RN]

Yep ... in the hospital system that I left in March, we couldn't even apply for RN3 until we reached RN2, so you needed to have a year in before you could do the clinical ladder. I spent about a month as an RN2 before I submitted my packet for RN3, and was awarded the RN3 and a 6% raise. :)