GN starting rate?

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Hello everyone,

I am just curious to find out your state of practice and your starting rate as well as patient ratio. I am in O-Town (Orlando, Florida ) and the starting rate here for GN's is $19.69. How pathetic!

$40/hr to $42/hr in Norhtern California (San Francisco Bay Area). You should know the cost of living is very expensive though. (A one bedroom apartment is $1500 to $2000/mo. So a lot of nurses share apartments and pay $750 to $1000/mo in rent. You would be hard pressed to be able to afford to buy a house on one income. However, there are lots os great people here, you're close to the beach, the foothills, the weather is temperate, and there's definitely a nightlife and cultural entertainment. The last bonus is that there are nursing patient ratios as mandated by the state. Nurses in acute care take care of 1:5 patients on the hospital floor. Everything is relative.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Transplant.

In Rochester, MN I will be starting at $26.21 /hr. The cost of living is pretty cheap.

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The best I found here in San Antonio is $19 per hour.

Hey fellow Texan! I also live in San Antonio, and have been very curious what the starting rate is for a new nurse! So $19 is the BEST you've found? Yikes! I guess that's not TOO terrible, since cost of living is very reasonable. If you don't mind me asking, what facility pays $19/hr? I would really like to know what Methodist pays new nurses-because I'd love to work there someday. I start nursing school in the fall...YAY!

Jennifer

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Specializes in nicu.
Hey fellow Texan! I also live in San Antonio, and have been very curious what the starting rate is for a new nurse! So $19 is the BEST you've found? Yikes! I guess that's not TOO terrible, since cost of living is very reasonable. If you don't mind me asking, what facility pays $19/hr? I would really like to know what Methodist pays new nurses-because I'd love to work there someday. I start nursing school in the fall...YAY!

Jennifer

University Hospital

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Southern Colorado -21.33 or 21.70 base pay, this is the going rate for the two main hospitals in town.

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Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.

In southern Wisconsin starting pay for new grads is $27-28 / hour with $4 NOC diffs and $2 weekend diffs.

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Specializes in ortho/neuro.

In St. Cloud, MN the new grad pay is $25.02 (that .02 makes all the difference :p I know in the Twin Cities area and Duluth, the pay is anywhere from .30 to $1 more.

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Hi- I just got hired as a GN in Connecticut for 27.75 plus diff.

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Boston inpatient seems to range from $24 to $30 starting w/o diffs. Nursing homes not in the city is lower, ~$22 for new grads. Community health: $22-$26 I think, although that varies.

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I'm starting as a GN next month in Philadelphia, PA starting at $27.85 with diff

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Philly Area is 22-25 plus differentials. Believe it or not you get paid better in the suburbs than in the city. Plus u get killed with city tax on top of low pay.

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St. Louis MO, $18/hr and cost of living is fairly high. It's around $800 for a 1br apartment.

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