How do you get paid?

[scout mom]

Just curious as to whether the majority of school nurses are salaried or hourly. & what the average hourly pay rate or salary is for rural schools. I'm honestly just curious to see if what I make is average because I'm hourly and I took a HUGE paycut to work at the school.

I'm at an urban Charter School that has its own "District" so to speak, and they do not publish their pay scale to the public. I am salaried like the teachers. Our regular work week is 50 hours/week.

In the district where I live, the pay scale is published and it is based on Bachelor's degree plus one year, etc. up to 10 years. That range is $48, 420- $78,035/year. The Master's degree range is $53,000 - $80,000. The school nurses in my district are only eligible up to the +9 years for some reason so they cap at that wage.

[kidzcare]

Our regular work week is 50 hours/week.

Yikes! Do you do 5 10 hour days?

Yikes! Do you do 5 10 hour days?

NO!! I told them there was no way I was doing that when they hired me, LOL. So I work a "short" day from 7:45-3:30. Still way longer than the nurses in the district where I live. If I were working in my home district, I would be working 7:45-2:30. I am actually trying to decide if I want to just be a sub next year in my own district because these hours are hard- I can't drop my own kids off or pick them up from school and it has been hard not being able to do that

The teachers at my school have NO life. Most are young and do not have families yet. They report to school at 7:00 am and leave at 5:30 every day. Most stay later. I cannot imagine.

[nursmimi, BSN, RN]

Good grief, I need to move out of AR

[aprilmoss]

I'm on a 9 month contract which pretty much says I work when kids are in the building. If I work during the summer, I do so on per diem.

There are a couple of the supervising nurses that are on either ten months (like most teachers and staff) or year-round (like some of the admins).

I always lobbied that we should be on a ten month becuase I usually end up having to work before and after the school year, etc... just like the teachers.

[nurse4vets17]

Here in Oregon starting out I was salary, no experience, $63k/yr with $4k sign on bonus paid out over a yr.

[BrisketRN, BSN, RN]

I get paid a salary. I was offered an additionally hourly wage if I wanted to come in for Saturday sports games. I said no way. PE can use their first aid training for that. I took about $8k pay cut switching to school nursing. Once I get certified it looks like I'll break even or do a little better based on salaries in my area.

[AdobeRN]

In Texas - large district, for the most part well off - Paid a salary spread out for 12 months on the teachers pay scale. We get extra pay for teaching CPR, working summer school and summer registration. All are RN's, Bachelors or School nurse certification is not required. No credit given for prior years working as nurse when hired - your starting pay is just like a a first year teacher.

Good grief, I need to move out of AR

Crazy difference in salaries depending on area. I will say I am hoping at least a lot is due to cost of living. In my town, for example, if you want to buy a 2,000 SF 3-4 bedroom house, you are looking at spending $800-$950 K!!! So hopefully at least, those areas with much lower salaries at least allow people to still pay rent, eat, etc. We have friends that just moved to Texas from where we are (MA) and literally bought a MANSION in Texas for a third of what they sold their 3 BR house here:yes:

[NutmeggeRN, BSN]

Salary and after 25 years and a Masters, Im doing ok!

[JenTheSchoolRN, BSN, RN]

NO!! I told them there was no way I was doing that when they hired me, LOL. So I work a "short" day from 7:45-3:30. Still way longer than the nurses in the district where I live. If I were working in my home district, I would be working 7:45-2:30. I am actually trying to decide if I want to just be a sub next year in my own district because these hours are hard- I can't drop my own kids off or pick them up from school and it has been hard not being able to do that

The teachers at my school have NO life. Most are young and do not have families yet. They report to school at 7:00 am and leave at 5:30 every day. Most stay later. I cannot imagine.

I'm also at a charter, but I have a 9 hour day; 7:30-4:30. But I can leave early some days if I have no after school commitments; we get one "early" day a week and I tend to use it on Fridays to leave at 3:30, because that is the day that we don't have any afterschool programs past 4 PM. (Other days, programs go until 4:30, which is why I am contracted as such).

I'm salaried and on the teacher scale, which means I get the same bump up at certain milestone years as teachers do. This is a newer development, however, but because of it I got a nice little raise recently which helped with the hours :).

[skool.nurse]

I work in a charter school I'm hourly and i get paid 24/hr. I quit a hospital job paying 28/hr. I'm in Pittsburgh, PA and I work 8 hours days, that's the hours the hours that the kids go to school.