Nurses New Nurse
Published Dec 14, 2011
You are reading page 12 of Your Starting Salary?
heronurse
135 Posts
$24.65 RN position in LTC, my first job. High pay for an average working person, but low for an RN position but I'm not complaining it's my first job anyway :)
twiddlywinks
8 Posts
$24 in KS in a med/tele acute care unit in a hospital. $4 diff for nights and $2 for weekends.
Gisellee
9 Posts
$28/hr at a LTC in PA. $5 differential and +$3 for weekends. New grad with no experience. average benefit packs with no raise & no 401kmatch. But I am satisfied with the salary itself.
Friskee, BSN, MSN
83 Posts
27.15 plus differential (I mostly work weekends, 7-3 is 2$ extra and 3-7 is 4.50 extra) I work in a LTC/ rehab in the Chicago suberbs.
Also BSN degree
angel_rockz87
1 Post
37$ in Long Island NY
barcode120x, RN, NP
727 Posts
Southern California new grad nightshifter on the DOU/telemetry floor at a regional hospital. $34.70 starting with $4.00 night differential and a 5% weekend differential.
ashrose1992
69 Posts
New grad northeast Indiana base pay $21.20/hr. 3p-11p shift dif $2/hr. 11p-7a shift dif $3/hr. Weekend dif 2.25/hr. $1,000 sign on bonus for two year contract. Drowning in 50k+ student loan debt knowing I will need to work lots of overtime in hopes of ever paying it down. :/
chwcbesteph, RN
109 Posts
New grad RN (with ADN)
22/hr base pay +$1 for nights and $0.50 for weekends. Typical benefits package.
Critical access hospital (med-surg)
South Dakota :)
Jbgood
11 Posts
This is really sad but his thread started in 2011 and it seems the farther I scroll along the less the starting pay is as the years go on. I realize it depends on what area you live in but even in the Midwest I see nurses starting out at way more money per hour 5 years ago then now. I'm in the STL area and started on a post op surgical floor earlier this year making $23 base pay with $3 diff for night shift as an ADN. I left that job due to stress and high patient load to start in a psych facility on days with base at $21. I have to pick up extra shifts and work overtime every week just to make ends meet for me and my 2 kids. This is not the lucrative career I thought it would be, what I'd read and what friends told me, and the amount of stress is too much for such little pay. Now I don't even want to finish my BSN and am considering a degree change. I could be an accountant starting at the same pay and actually be able to take lunch breaks and not have to deal with unappreciative or downright violent patients.
PMFB-RN, RN
5,351 Posts
I don't know where STL area is. But you can indeed be well paid as an RN. But you have to choose where you live and work, and what kind of work you do carefully.
New grads start at about $32/hour where I work. After 5 to 10 years of experience $100K/year not counting OT is normal, for those work at least some nights and weekend.
I know RNs with 20 plus years experience who work strait nights and every other weekend making $140k/year with no OT.
This is in the Twin Cities area of MN. Cost of living can be very low if you are willing to drive 45 min to work, even in the city it's not too bad. Plenty of nice 3br house for
We are looking for good and dependable nurses. PM me if you are interested. I'm just a staff nurse, not a recruiter or anything.
Nursey1108
20 Posts
NEW grad RN (ADN), BSN 8/2017 in northern Jersey area... work in Subacute/LTC 34.60 no benefits, with benefits 25.75