FNP - How to make enough $$$ to pay the bills?

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As little as I like to admit it, most days my only motivation for going to work is to support my family. I am a FNPS and will be graduating in a year. I am currently located in Louisville KY, but am willing (and interested) in relocating for my first FNP position.

I am becoming concerned due to the salary data that I am able to gather, as it stands now, if I were to begin working as a new grad at 40 hrs/week in this area, I would take a 30-40% pay cut. (I work 60-70 hours/week now as the sole-income for my family)

I am willing to do pretty much whatever to make this work, I just don't have a great understanding of the opportunities afforded to Practitioners (PRN, Locum...) for supplemental income on top of a 40 hr/week position. Overall my goal (requirement) is to make $6,000 take-home monthly.

Anyone have any success in this environment?

Thanks!

It's the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. This is from studentaid.ed.gov: https://studentaid.ed.gov/sites/default/files/public-service-loan-forgiveness.pdf

1)Relocate to California if you want the highest nursing salary.

2)Here's something I've observed (though many may not agree with), NP salary nationwide will continue to decrease until it's just about the same as average RN salary. (Due to many reasons, but mainly because there are lots of NP schools and universities are in it to make money just like everyone else; and NP schools are in demand)

Specializes in Med/Surg, Tele, Psych.

I hope not!!!

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1)Relocate to California if you want the highest nursing salary.

2)Here's something I've observed (though many may not agree with), NP salary nationwide will continue to decrease until it's just about the same as average RN salary. (Due to many reasons, but mainly because there are lots of NP schools and universities are in it to make money just like everyone else; and NP schools are in demand)

Somehow I doubt that across all specialties...I moved from an extremely high cost of living area on the east coast to a much lower cost of living area in the southwest and make $30k more as a new grad NP than my RN job with 6 years experience (and we were the highest paid nurses in that city). There is a shortage of NNPs and it's only getting worse with the average age of a NNP pretty high.

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