Could this be true or is this proud papa just bragging.

PennyLane, RN · May 31, 2004

Which one??? :uhoh21: I'm just South of Boston (20 minutes)and haven't seen that price. If they are offering that, it might be worth the horrendous traffic. Local hospitals are offering around $21 for new grads.
I'd love to get $30 when I graduate.
Berta

I used to live in Brighton and I know how expensive Boston is. New grads at the hospital where I work start at $21 and that's considered low for Baltimore. I can't imagine affording to live in Boston and getting only $21/hour. Of course the farther you are from the city, the cheaper it is to live.

leslie :-D · May 31, 2004

I used to live in Brighton and I know how expensive Boston is. New grads at the hospital where I work start at $21 and that's considered low for Baltimore. I can't imagine affording to live in Boston and getting only $21/hour. Of course the farther you are from the city, the cheaper it is to live.

boston is outrageously expensive to live in. outrageous.

1styear · May 31, 2004

It's possible in NYC, actually it's very possible

NeuroICURN · May 31, 2004

My husband tells me that one of his co-workers has a daughter who just graduated from nursing school with ADN. The father claims she is starting at a large city hospital on a cardiac unit at $32 an hour. I am kinda suspicious that someone might be fibbing a wee bit.

Oramar....

Well, first of all, I know that you're from my neck of the woods....

Also, I graduated with my ADN last year....so let me tell you that in ANY of the inner city hospitals here....NONE of them are offering that much to start a new grad!!! And I interviewed with ALL the big ones in our area!

However, my hosp. does have a program where you work Fri, Sat, and Sun, all 12s, and it's $33/hr....if you're interested in something like that, PM me and I'll tell ya where.

So, yes....somebody is doing a little fibbing somewhere! They're desperate, but not that desperate! LOL :rolleyes:

jemb · May 31, 2004

Specialty unit, night shift differential, and non-benefitted might come out to that even if the regular benefitted day shift position would start at 20-30% lower. Many facilities are offering non-benefitted full time positions these days.

I'm not in your area, but where I work, a new grad who chooses a non-benefitted status starts at $32/hr without the $3/hr shift differential. With benefits,the starting rate is $26/hr. (Not guessing --I just looked it up in our union book.)

LydiaNN · May 31, 2004

I was told recently by a colleague that new grads are starting at $70K in our city (San Diego). I don't have direct knowledge of that, but I have no reason to doubt her. Assuming that is for a 40 hour week, it would work out to about $33.60/hr

angel337, MSN, RN · May 31, 2004

in windy city chicago the highest new grad rate is $28/hr , this includes the $6/hr night shift differential.

SmilingBluEyes · May 31, 2004

I believe it. Wages REALLY stagnate with experience. Where else but in nursing would a newbie with NO experience make just $5-10 less an hour than a nurse with more than 20 years' experience? I am not surprised......RECRUITMENT is the key; retention gets little if any, attention at all.

LPN4Life · May 31, 2004

I believe it. Wages REALLY stagnate with experience. Where else but in nursing would a newbie with NO experience make just $5-10 less an hour than a nurse with more than 20 years' experience? I am not surprised......RECRUITMENT is the key; retention gets little if any, attention at all.

That is one well said post...........how many times have we worked through the shortages, then watch the newbies come in and get a sign on bonus of $1000-5000. I talked a nurse into coming over where I worked once when we were really short, and my DON was busy, and told me to call her and offer her a wage that was a dollar an hour more than me (I was the ADON, my friend was going to be a charge nurse)

lady_jezebel · May 31, 2004

Yes, it's possible if she is factoring in shift differentials and a sign-on bonus. Perhaps this is what she has calculated she is making on a weekend night shift.

rollingstone · May 31, 2004

In my neck of the woods, new grads AND experienced nurses usually start around $18.hr.

Well, this experienced nurse wouldn't be working there.

rollingstone · May 31, 2004

I believe it. Wages REALLY stagnate with experience. Where else but in nursing would a newbie with NO experience make just $5-10 less an hour than a nurse with more than 20 years' experience? I am not surprised......RECRUITMENT is the key; retention gets little if any, attention at all.

Truer words were never spoken.