Wage Scales for Home Health Nurses

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Does anyone work for a home health agency that utilizes a wage scale for their nursing staff? I am interested in suggesting the implementation of a wage scale at our next contract negotiations. I am interested most in how your agency compensates for the following:

-Step increases

-Senority

-Actual home health experience

-Past experience unrelated to home health

-Call time

-BSN or related specialty certification

-Job classifications i.e. RN Case Manager/RN Staff Nurse

-Per Diem Staff

I am also interested in how the rural add-on/reduction has impacted your ability to negotiate a fair contract.

If you're uncomfortable discussing specifics and wages, feel free to PM me.

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

Can't help you as my agency is non union and that info is known by HR, not publicized.

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Specializes in MS Home Health.

I am with Karen, I cannot share that. I only know the nurses I work with are very underpaid for the area.

renerian

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

from us dept of labor:

median annual earnings of registered nurses were $48,090 in 2002. the middle 50 percent earned between $40,140 and $57,490. the lowest 10 percent earned less than $33,970, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $69,670. median annual earnings in the industries employing the largest numbers of registered nurses in 2002 were as follows:

employment services$55,980

general medical and surgical hospitals $49,190

home health care services $45,890

offices of physicians $44,870

nursing care facilities $43,850

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos083.htm

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