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!

Specializes in Adult Acute Care Medicine.

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI - $21.37/hr for GN....excellent benefits though...for every 1$ I put away they put away $2.

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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!

Greetings,

It's been a while since I've visited this site due to completion of the ADN nursing program here in Illinois. I am a GN nurse as of 6/11/07. I've been hired on the cardiac unit and have successfully passed the RN licensure boards on 6/06/07. Starting pay-$24.69 in the Chicago area. there is a 10% shift differential for afternoons and midnights and a 25% weekend differential for all shifts. I think it's pretty decent, but the work and responsibility is overwhelming!

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Northern CA- New grad $31.22 base pay, $3 hr NOC diff and $1 hr weekend diff

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i'm in northern virginia (kinda) $24.50 base pay (up to $27 after passing the NCLEX)

Pay differentials: $5 evening, $8 nights, $3 weekends, and up to $10 for critical need

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Northern Vermont: GN's start at $23.53 and go up within one year of hire to about $1 more an hour.

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Base pay in the Hartford, CT area is anywhere from 25.25 to 26.75/hour not inc. differentials.

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Specializes in OB, lactation.

S. Central FL around $19 base.

My hospital differentials are about 7% evenings, 15% nights, NO weekend differential. Call pay $2.

The FL cost of living has risen a lot in the last couple of years (everywhere but especially in non-coastal areas that were formerly pretty cheap) & pay hasn't caught up.

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Yeah, I live in Jacksonville, Fl and the starting rate is the same...:(

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!

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wow. I feel great that i started at 23.00/ hour plus shift diff.....In central PA! Of course I only have ONE chance to pass boards, and I don't get a raise once i do. But working evenings, and assuming I pass boards, I'll be making 25/hour in my first year, which isn't too bad with an associates degree. I have 4-5 patients who are on non-monitored telemetry; the unit is mostly neuro med-surg. Most infectious diseases come here too. Yuck, but take the precautions, and no big deal. The nurse:patient ratio is one of the best, from what i have heard. Mandatory overtime though. But managable.

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I'm in central Virginia starting at $20.35 base plus $3-6 differential depending on shift. Sign on bonus is $2000 plus another $2000 at 24 months if you stick around. Patient ratios of 4-7 in a large teaching hospital.

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20.35 here in Charlottesville, VA--add in differentials, and it's not bad...

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$31.52/hr Suffolk County, New York

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