ER nurses make $144,000 a year!

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http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/career-articles-staying_power_5_careers_with_bright_futures-493

Specializes in ER.

How to solve the nursing crisis? By sorely misleading the public...:eek:

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Specializes in Emergency.

I can tell you this, this ER nurse on his best year isn't even close. I would guess maybe overseas like Saudi or Dubai maybe OR contract/agency like someone said killing oneself with OT. Though I did get a PM the other day with a offer of $90 hr in northern Canada.

Rj

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Specializes in ED, ICU, PSYCH, PP, CEN.

I have a friend who only does agency and one location pays 56 an hour for nights and weekends.

Multiply that by 2000 hours a year and you get 110,000, add in 500 hours of overtime and you get close to 130,000.

I doubt many places pay 56 an hour though

Shame on these reporters for misleading so many people.

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Specializes in CNA, Surgical, Pediatrics, SDS, ER.

That's about 4x what a nurse actualy makes:eek:, shoot I don't even make the 44,000/yr:cry:, I would be very to earn that amount.

That has to be a typo, doesn't it?:confused: Even management around here does not even come close to earning that salary.

The salary in nursing is so great that's why alot of nurses I know including myself have a second job. That 144,000 is just not enough for us!

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My sis is a nurse practitioner and doesn't even make that much... she makes a lot closer to it than I do.. :chuckle but still not that much...

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I know an ER nurse who made 6 figures. She worked 6-7 days a week, 12+ hours shifts, overtime up the ying yang. She was burnt out, horrible to the other staff and drank on her days off. Sure you can make that much, if you want no quality of life whatsoever and plan to work, sleep and drive to home/work again.

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when and where....

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Specializes in med-surg, BICU.

a friend of mine who works in manhattan makes over 150K--nights, perdiem...and this friend almost literally kills theirself with OT every week!

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Specializes in med-surg, BICU.

ps--this friend of mine happens to work in the same hospital i work in and 150K is very true

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Specializes in ER, Infusion therapy, Oncology.

I worked in the ER for 12 years and never came close to making that much money, even with OT. There are agency nurses making 40-45$/hr that if they work a lot of OT could top 100k, but you would also have no life.

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I think this figure has to come from states like NY and California. Rates for nurses can be 45hr to 55 hr depending on the hospital. If a nurse works 6days a week for 12hr shifts she can reach these rates. Since most people who post here are from other states besides these two states those rates do seems outrageous.

You dont have to be an ER nurse though to make that rate. I know a nurse who works few night in ER. Works per diem for a VNS and he clear that amount and does not even feel stressed. He works in VET ER at night and not very busy and consider the VNS a breeze so in big cities as a nurse that pay is possible but your putting in a lot of hours.

Angela

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Specializes in LTC/SNF, Psychiatric, Pharmaceutical.
a friend of mine who works in manhattan makes over 150K--nights, perdiem...and this friend almost literally kills theirself with OT every week!

I've noticed a common theme here: most of the nurses that are making the "average" salary listed on Yahoo! seem to be wrecking their physical and mental health with excessive overtime. I'd have to work 55 hours a week, EVERY week, with NO time off whatsoever, to earn $44,000 a year. No thanks.

It's probably easier for a nurse to get OT than almost any other occupation. You can earn a king's ransom by living like an 1870's nurse that is practically a slave to the hospital.

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