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Please let me know what your base pay is in your part of the country. I live in TN and where I work our base pay is 13.00/hr. And if you are a CVICU nurse, do you get paid more for what you can do. thanks

Originally posted by stellaCat4:

Originally posted by Trauma:

[qb]Please let me know what your base pay is in your part of the country. I live in TN and where I work our base pay is 13.00/hr. And if you are a CVICU nurse, do you get paid more for what you can do. thanks

where I work in Florida (Clearwater) starting pay for new grads is $15.30 hr and then we have a pay for skills, so a new nurse with experience could start as high as $20 an hour or more, depending on the skills brought to the job. CVICU does not pay extra[/QB]

oops. reading my last message, I meant a experienced nurse new to the organization could make $20 or more an hour. Our shift diff for nights is $3.25/hr. Florida is a great place to live and work because our cost of living is not too bad. I live in a house that is 1100 sq feet, my taxes are only $800 a year, there is no state income tax, and 7% tax on the dollar. Not to mention great weather and beaches.

Agreeing with VanRN32 from Vancouver:"Also, unless you are living on a boarder town the exchange is relative. When you live in the US you spend in US, dollar for dollar."

Living in a border city does have it's perks even with the harsh Canadian taxation. I now currently work in Michigan and live in Canada, work (contingent/per diem)without benefits @ $31.20/hr weekends only (2-12 hour night shifts)is my standard requirement. The extra (my choice if I choose to)3rd shift per week I make $41.20/hr. Night diff is $2.50/hr. This is a recent change from a different contingent plan making $29.44/hr, $2.50 night diff added for regular 36 hours/week just like regular full-time staff but, of course, without benefits. This is only a benefit with Canada's socialized medicine. Add the net to the 50% U.S. to Canadian exchange and I make pretty good money to support a family of 5 alone. I plan to investigate more, will see Merrill Lynch for planning as I know I'll get hit next year big-time in Canadian taxes. My mother paid last year $17,000 Canadian as she nurses in Michigan also but has no dependents. She still believes it's worth it. Her commute is 30 minutes, mine is one hour.

Benefits aren't easy to get anymore in our socialized medical system because it's hard to get full time work. Lots of casual jobs where you work 60 hours a week but don't get benes cause you're not full time. I definitely wade way more money when I worked in the US.

I work in a 400 bed hospital in southern Alabama that is a regional referral center for the southeast. New grads start out at $13.00 per hour. For experienced nurses they add 4% for every year that you have worked as an RN. There is no extra money for unit work, but there is a $1.50/hour incentive for CCRN and $1.25 for RNC. They pay an extra $0.50 for ACLS certification. Shift diff for 3-11 is 8% and 11-7 is 16%. No extra for weekends...yet ;)

I am working in Australia with 25 critical care behind me , with BA in NURSING, ACLS, TNCC,and POST GRAD in CRITICAL CARE. We get $27.00 an Hour, equal to half in American dollars,plus penal rates we may clear $1200 a fortnight. However if you work agency you get $35.00 for weekdays and $75.00 for weekends. We pay up tp 40cents in the dollar tax plus GST. However it not to bad a pay.

Jane Aussie

I that I had it bad but according to all of you, I'm making a great salary then, if only the staffing and office politics were better I would stay where I'm at. I make 13.60 per hr, all the overtime I want, draw back is I'm the only nurse on duty at night for 110-118 residents. I made $40,000 last year and you know what I'm a LPN. But I'm the only one that likes nights, so I work all the time but you know I think I'm burning out because I've been on vacation for 3 weeks and I don't want to go back but I'm also scared of the job market. It sound tough. I was wanting to relocate up north to wyoming or somewhere but I don't think I can make the same salary. Besides I wanting to get my RN and make a living. My children are grown and its tough being alone in a new place. Anyway, I going to think hard about what I have and if I willing to leave it or not. The stress of office politics is tremendous where I work now. :confused:

Hey Stella!

I've been thinking about relocating to Florida.Tampa sounds good.(my grandma used to take me to the Colonade when I was small).What hospital do you work at?Someone had recommended St.Joes,But it always helps to have an extra opinion. :p

I am a new Grad RN working in a 12 bed ICU/CCU, and make $19.35. After my preceptership on days, I will go to night shift and will receive a $1.75 differential. Pay does not differ by department. Northern Nevada

New nurse in OR- 2 mos. experience. All new grads in any dept. start at 17.56/hr and then get 17.81/hr after passing boards.

I live on the west coast of Florida (Sarasota area) which is about an hour south of Tampa. The salaries here start at $14.90, and I don't believe that you are going to get all that more up in Tampa. I had moved from NY where I thought the cost of living is high, I was quite shocked when I realized that the COL isn't much lower in this area but salaries are really low. I'm planning on finishing my education at least to a BSN here and then moving back to NY.

I don't know where you live but believe me, it isn't as cheap to live in Florida as you think. Whatever you do, make sure that you aren't carrying too much debt, because that'll kill you.

In Massachusetts, the pay scales of course depend on where you are (near Boston or in the nether regions) and if you are unionized or not. I left a teaching hospital in Boston in Oct 99 and the MNA nurses there were making upwards of $35/hr. In a community hospital nearer RI, the pay scale was in the range of $18-25. In RI, I was making $28/hr in 2000 as a cath lab nurse with 14 yrs critical care experience. Now I live in So FL and the pay scales here are awful. The average staff nurse makes about $20. Thank heaven i am a CNS now bacause housing costs are greater where I am than they were in RI!

I have 5 years of nursing under my belt and only 1 of those years is CCU... I get paid $23.33 base with $1.75/hr noc diff. If you are CV trained you get an extra $1.50 and hour add it up!!!! I am not even at the top of the pay scale I believe the top is at 9 years of nursing at my hospital is a base of $28.00/hr:) Wisconsin sounds better than down south but I think our COL is higher too.

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