CRNA Salaries - Will They Drop?

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Just a quick question regarding the salaries of CRNAs. Currently, they're very well compensated for the job they do, and for good reason. However, I've heard in recent months that the salary of the average CRNA can be expected to drop a good deal over the coming years. I've heard reasons cited, but I forget what they were.

Is there truth to this? Is there some reason CRNA salaries will be dropping?

Specializes in ER/ICU, CCRN, SRNA (class of 2010).
without causing another thread to be re-opened or any anger .....There is another group out there that may help aleviate the shortage(jobs) of Anesthetist...this must be included in your outcomes ( whether salaries will drop)

Over thirty years they have yet to aleviate the shortage!!! Maybe in another thirty years???? Maybe when the number of schools educating them reaches double digits??? Or maybe when greater then 75% of the states recognize them??? Then you could include them.

There is very little thunder in that argument, just a lot of alarmist mentality. Nothing against AAs but I fail to see how they will impact salaries.

-Smiley

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I doubt AA's will make salaries drop, at my hospital they are doing and making the exact same thing as the CRNA's.

Not that I think they would make the salaries drop, but that they should be added into the "supply and demand" points that were made in other post.......

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Just thinking about this post. What comes to mind is the sacrafice that one takes on to become a CRNA. I dont think many people would quit their job and take on a debt load of 100k to 180k to enter a profession that paid any less than what it does now.

If the salaries were comparible to NPs then the educational programs would have to as well. For example part time classes, low cost classes, night classes and so forth.

Currently it makes sense to quit working, take out loans, and endure an intense educational environment to become a crna. If the financial rewards were less well then it would make less sense.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Emergency.
Just thinking about this post. What comes to mind is the sacrafice that one takes on to become a CRNA. I dont think many people would quit their job and take on a debt load of 100k to 180k to enter a profession that paid any less than what it does now.

If the salaries were comparible to NPs then the educational programs would have to as well. For example part time classes, low cost classes, night classes and so forth.

Currently it makes sense to quit working, take out loans, and endure an intense educational environment to become a crna. If the financial rewards were less well then it would make less sense.

not that i'm defending AA education or downplaying CRNA education, but i'm sure there's sacrifice with AA education.. i mean, you have to have pre-reqs to take the MCAT (not sure if ALL AA programs require), but the program itself is at least equally challenging academically.

i'm CRNA bound, but i don't discount either profession..

i don't feel "threatened" by the rise in AA population.

just my thoughts~

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Specializes in Anesthesia.
........Nothing against AAs but I fail to see how they will impact salaries.

-Smiley

36,000 CRNAs today vs a few hundred AAs. Next year we will graduate more SRNAs than all the AAs of thirty years past combined.

Fuggidaboudit..............

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I doubt they will drop. AA's require supervision to apply anesthetics, that makes CRNA's way way way more marketable. They are not limited to what they can do with a MD present.

36,000 CRNAs today vs a few hundred AAs. Next year we will graduate more SRNAs than all the AAs of thirty years past combined.

Fuggidaboudit..............

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