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 LTC.

OKlahoma starting pay for an LPN in a LTC facility is 15.00 hr

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$18.75 here in Melbourne FL for Full time RN! With Night Diff I was at about $23.00 and hour! Florida Health care pay sucks! Gotta be willing to travel!

Stephan

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Specializes in Surgical Intensive Care.

I am in the Texas Panhandle and last year I started as a GN @ $19.50 and hour. The good thing is that I get a review and raise every 6 months, so I have already had a raise and more to come toward the end of the year. I think that it's good pay considering the cost of living here and considering that I make more than some experienced nurses- now that's pathetic! They should pay for experience, but unless you leave and move around, you will never be paid what you are worth...

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It's $22.21 as a GN, then shoots up a dollar once you're an RN where I'm working in the Detroit area, pluse night and weedend differentials.

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Portland, OR, my hospital starts at $26.99/hr.

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In New Jersey, I started at $32 and they paid $30,000 of my tuition (but I have to work for them for 2 years)

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San Jose, Ca

My facility- $37/hr plus $6/hr for night and $1.5/hr for weekends. We are also about to have a pay raise this next paycheck...$2/hr I believe.

The county hospital starts nurses off at $41/hr plus extra for nights.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

I live in the Western Pa area, and my starting rate was 20.19. I have friends that work at the famous big UPMC hospitals, and their starting rate is 19.00. They can do that because everything in Pittsburgh is basically UPMC, so if you live near Pittsburgh, you have to take what they offer. God nurses deserve so much more!

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Specializes in peds and med/surg.

I start at $21.27 plus $2.10 shift diff from 3-7p and $5 from 7p-7a and $2 on weekends. I have 4 patients. I will not get more after I pass boards. I will get a $5000 sign on bonus, plus $6000 tuition reimbursement (1/2 after I pass, 1/2 next year) and I had to sign a two year agreement.

For what it costs to live in SW FL, that is nothing.

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hmm... for some there is despair, for others opportunity. i'm making 27 an hour after the first year. i don't feel at all rained on or cheated.

my first year in nursing i worked in long term care and i made 100k. not bad. the secret to making money in this business, even as a newbie, is to work nights and be willing to pick up overtime.

this year i'm cutting back, and i'll only make 80k.... again, it's not bad, especially considering that i'm getting my mba. :).

i think this is a great career full of all sorts of opportunity for those willing to work and learn. yes, it is hard work.

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As a new grad in Pasadena, CA , Operating Room, they start me at 23.10 base pay and after 6 months 24.75 - very low for California - but OR is hard to get in ..so I took it. And since it's 1 year training i'll be working mon to fri /8 hours so I don't get night/weekend differential and no 1.5 after 8 hours

Other hospitals like med/surg unit or DOU offers around $27-30 an hour plus night/weekend differential

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Minnesota range for new grad RNs is about $25-29/hr with various shift diffs.

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