First RN job & it's pay

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Hello everyone,

I would like as many responses as possible. I am located in Houston, Texas but looking to working to work anywhere in the US. I am about to get my RN license and I have started looking for a job. What should I expect my salaray or my wage/hr at my first job as a RN with no experience? If people would tell me their personal pay they received at there first job would be helpful. I've researched the web and found just a scattered range of pays. Your responses will be very appreciated. Thanks!

I'm in the outskirts of Minneapolis/St. Paul area. I work in home care and started at $23/hr but after 1.5 years am making 27.50/hr. Local hospitals range from about $27-29/hr starting for ADN

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Specializes in ICU.

I'm a new grad in Seattle. I make $27.50/hr plus a $4.25 night diff/$2.50 evening diff and a $4.00 weekend diff, which I have to work 4 weekend days a month. I work 12-hr nights so from 7pm-11pm I make $30/hr, and from 11pm-7am I make $31.75/hr, plus the extra $4.00 if I'm on weekends.

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Specializes in LTC, OB/GYN, Primary Care.

SW Ohio New grads start out $22-24. My facility is $24 plus shift diff & weekend pay but it is LTC. I know hospitals are slightly less. This is pretty decent for the cost of living here above average for as associates right out of college

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Specializes in I'm too new to have a specialty.

wow, thats great starting pay!

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Specializes in I'm too new to have a specialty.
I am not a new nurse but when I graduated from nursing school 20 years ago starting pay was $20.00. I see starting pay has not increase dramatically. Just curious how much did you expect to get paid. $40,000 starting pay out of college is not bad! Nurses often don't get raises every year and when they do it is very little!

20 yrs ago 20.00. Wow, that was a lot more then than it is now as cost of living you know. Well, economy is bad so lucky to be offered a job, much less over 20 an hour, much less the people who cannot get a job at all. I am appreciatative of the oppurtunity to go on an interview in these times, Im lucky. Thanks for the info, interesting to me.

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Do you plan on going to school or is making $40,00o sufficient enough to you?

40,000 w/ no experience in an economic time when there are literally NO jobs is great. 40,000 is much better than 000,000.00 if you ask me.

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An ADN is an RN

Ahahaha I am an ADN too. I am surely an RN too. Lol!

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.
I hear if you work PRN, they pay more because of the savings to the company/hospital in terms of benefits. Have you all found that to be true?
I currently work PRN and receive a pay rate of $36 hourly. If I were to accept a full-time position with the company, my pay rate would drop to $25 hourly. I would have difficulty accepting $25 per hour as an RN because that is a lower pay rate than what I had been earning as an LPN/LVN.
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at my communitry hospital in lowell, ma the pay is 25.50 for new grad nurses. +3 diff for evenings, and +5 for nights. i work eves so i'll be getting paid 28.50

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Specializes in ED, ICU.

I am a new grad BSN and started working in a LTC facility in Massachusetts at $23/hour. I am starting a new job at a community hospital in the Berkshires tomorrow that pays $34 (after my evening differentials). Good Luck!

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Specializes in Long term care, Sub-acute, Hospice.
I started as a new grad with BSN at a VA in chicagoland and started at 29.30 without differentials. Other new grads in my area were starting in the 27-28 range. After 2 years experience Im at 33.50 without any differentials. This year I will make around 83,000 before taxes.

THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. I LIVE IN CHICAGO TOO :yeah: :nurse:

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Specializes in Long term care, Sub-acute, Hospice.
I work in Northern CA and started my first job almost a year ago....pay was just under $42 per hour. With night diff it's about $47 an hour.

I know California has some of the highest paid nurses in the country because of the cost of living but also because they have one of the most difficult NCLEX exams. Illinois is very picky too. It was definitely worth graduating. :eek: :yeah:

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