Starting Salary for VA LPN

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My husband is just starting all the paperwork for the VA. I was curious to know where everyone started on the pay scale.

My husband has been working as an LPN since Dec. 2011....so it will be right around a year when he finally starts at the VA.

He will be working in mental health at the VA and has been working as an LPN in metnal health since April 2012 (so for 9 months by the time he starts at the VA).

Any info will be great. I am trying to figure out if it will be a pay cut for him to work at the VA.

Thanks

What VA are you going to work at? I am on military leave from the Erie PA VAMC.[/quote']

Well everything complete just waiting for physical to be fedex back to TX and vetpro to clear

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It will not affect your vacation at all. No employeer can make you take vacation or other benefit time if you are a reservist.

If you have past military service it will depend on if they give your credit for the time served. If they give you credit for time served you will earn vacation time passed on the date they give you. When I went to the VA they gave me 3 years as a military nurse towards my seniority. Which did not effect my vacation time since I was title 38 and not a GS 4/5/6. I am not sure when vacation time increase but lets say you have 4 years in the military and the VA gives 1 weeks of vacation for 1-3 years of seniority and 2 weeks for 4-10 years of seniority. If the VA does not give you any credit you would have 1 week of vacation and if they gave you the 4 years of seniority for your military service you would get 2 weeks of vacation.

Completed medical fingerprint two weeks ago completed e-qip on Wednesday.... Just got a call that employee health wants me to do a chest x-ray just waiting on day to go in and do the xray.. In your opinion when will i get offical offer?

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Specializes in EMT, ER, Homehealth, OR.

Hard to say, the VA moves at their own pace. It sounds like you have the job, just waiting to pass everything.

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Just got my formal offer. The salary was very good. I am a LVN with 15 years experience and the salary offered was wayyyyyy better than any job I have had in the private sector. If you are an LVN the VA is definitely the way to go.

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Hopefully someone can fill me in here. I just accepted a tentative position with the VA in Cleveland. I faxed them all of the documents that they requested. I have been an RN since June 2102 and I received my NSN in 2013 and my MSN in December 2016. When they are calculating the years of experience, do they go from when you got your RN if you have worked full time the entire time? What grade will I fall under. The position says the that salary is 60-112k. When I am looking at it, I think that I fall under nurse IV or V but I am not certain. My position will be RN in the education department as Spinal Cord Educator

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