I have been reading that many feel most RNs make about $60,000. a year, or $25-$30/hr.
Here are the stats on what nurses really earn from The U.S. Dept of Labor:
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Median annual earnings of registered nurses were $44,840 in 2000. The middle 50 percent earned between $37,870 and $54,000. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $31,890, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $64,360. Median annual earnings in the industries employing the largest numbers of registered nurses in 2000 were as follows:
Does anyone know what an RN earns doing home health care in Ohio, billing the counties direct for MRDD. As a home health aid I can earn considerably more than working as an aid through an agency. I am persuing my BSN I have 2 years left just wondering if this is a good avenue for RN's.
As a new grad working fulltime nights (3-12's) I will be grossing a little over 56,000 without overtime. Add one overtime shift a month and it's 61,000. I think that is pretty good just out of school.
Whatever you do don't come to WVa. I make $21.75 and have 33 years experience, mostly in ICU. And cost of living is comparatively high. Groceries are high, taxes are high, gas is high and real estate is high compared to where I used to live and made several dollars an hour more. Nursing wages are flat! I am making a couple of dollars an hour more then I made in 1993. My daughters, all recent college graduates are making quite a bit more than me in other fields.
As a new grad working fulltime nights (3-12's) I will be grossing a little over 56,000 without overtime. Add one overtime shift a month and it's 61,000. I think that is pretty good just out of school.
hogan, what part of the country do you live? Are you in a specialty field of nursing? Wondering how you can make that kind of $$ working only a few days a week! Lucky you! I only work a few days a week here (Wisconsin) and will be lucky if I gross $20,000 this year.
hi lilpoo
i second that emotion . . .
i live in wisconsin too . . . where i live a new nurse starts at around $20/hr give or take a little depending on the shift
i live in a rural area and the hosp where i work is going through a funk with low census and last week i made $0 . . . this week i worked three night shifts
part of me is ok with some of this since i've never really liked the idea of full time or year round work (this is my first real job since 1986)
so, while some of the other staff are kind of freaking out about all the down time, i've been out fishing and goofing around and more or less enjoying the slack time
the best way i've found to enjoy a rich life is by learning to live on less and staying in a lower tax bracket . . . like someone else said, if you calculate the point of diminishing returns related to taxes and such, overtime generally is not such a good deal
the hosp where i work also notified us it has been losing money and that they are instituting an emergency cost cutting program
i wonder if this is a temporary lull or a sign of the looming health care crisis . . . more and more people around here are losing their health insurance and the cost of health care keeps rising
sometimes i think all this administrative costs associated with all the paperwork and satisfying the gov't and the joint commision and all that along with the insurance middlemen taking their cuts is driving the system to the brink of disaster
i don't know about where you work, but it seems like health care is top heavy with a lot of high paid people who produce very little actual services
oh well, glad i didn't get into nursing for the money . . . i love the patient care but despise the growing pile of paperwork
I just found out that the place where I'm doing my externship will be paying the new male nurses more money than they will for their female hires. Is this happening everywhere are just in the south?When questioned they have a lame reason stating male nurses are usually head of households and need more pay, wish I had that one on tape. I know more female head-of-house-holds than male now days espically in nursing !It seems the ones talking big bucks here are mostly males, unless using male names for safety. Anyway it burns my but--
I doubt this to be an accurate account of what is really taking place. With females making up the majority of nursing, a company would all but go under trying to find enough male nurses to work. Obviously a new female grad would not want to work for someone who valued them so little. If the female nurses on this post actually think male nurses earn more they are misinformed.
I guess I'm a little concerned that $$$ seems to be such a motivator for so many nurses and nurses to be.
There's a whole lot more to this career and nursing jobs than $$$. Not just quality of life/cost of living of the area; but culture of the hospital, staffing, support...the whole environment of the place and how it feels to the individual. Knowing what makes you tick and where you are happy is a biggie in this field!!
All I'm trying to say is that if $$$ is one's main motivator, one may be a bit disappointd with this particular career.
Some of the hospitals with higher bonuses and pay are not ones I would want to work in. A word to the wise.
Remember mama telling us $$$ won't buy happiness?? She was right. Gotta be more to it than that.
Whoa! Momma wasn't kidding when she said I needed to go back and get my RN. I'm an LVN in Texas, but in San Antonio, where the cost of living is even less than Houston. Gas prices are also a little lower than Houston, etc etc etc...
Anyway, I am stunned to hear how much you guys are making. I started nursing 8 years ago and barely made $15K working dialysis (13 hour shifts 3 x wk). I was very excited to get my raise to $8.50/hour. Fast forward to recent years and the most I have made in one year was $35K. That was working one full time job and two agencies. I now work in an insurance agency as an auditor (HMO) and make just over $30K without overtime. I'm looking into going back into nursing but so far haven't found a place where I can make as much (hah!) and get the same benefits like medical, dental, 401K, PTO, STO, STD, LTD, tuition reimbursement (up to $4K/yr), and a special little program where we can get reimbursed up to $500/yr for things not normally covered like vet bills, auto repair, alternative medicine...
One RN I know here is going to break 100K this year but he is working weekend nights as charge in a specialty unit in the hospital 40 hr/wk.
For those of you making all those big bucks, wow!!! God has blessed y'all and I sure hope He turns that blessing to me! :chuckle
Guess my next step will be returning to school....
lyno
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Does anyone know what an RN earns doing home health care in Ohio, billing the counties direct for MRDD. As a home health aid I can earn considerably more than working as an aid through an agency. I am persuing my BSN I have 2 years left just wondering if this is a good avenue for RN's.