How much a CRNA really makes ?

[superking]

I have been reading all posts about salary but they are all 5 to 6 years old.I want to know the current situation.Request to all crnas.Please tell your income along with years of experience and location.Appreciated

[ArrowRN, BSN, RN]

Biweekly Check: Around 3000:writing:

Years of Experience:9

Location:Tampa FL

I was making more as a nurse in Wisconsin.CRNAs are doomed from now on.

I dont buy that quote. I can easily make that as take home pay with 1- 2 days overtime as a staff nurse, and I'm in florida. How many hours is that for $3000 biweekly is the question. Maybe you should look for another hospital cause many in florida pay more that that.

[Wolf at the Door, BSN]

An OR RN Clinical Nurse 3 at Norcal hospital in 2 years averaged 423k. Base Salary was 167k. The rest in call, call back pay, & OT. I would never do that much overtime and call. She's been an RN for 20 years. CRNA at that same facility were making average 220k 5 years exp. Hardly none did OT. Makes it hard to do all that studying, student loans, stress, relationship stress, lacking full respect by others, more responsibility etc.

The biggest positive I see in being a CRNA is ability to make good money on the east coast as opposed to being locked inside CA.

[Bluebolt]

An OR RN Clinical Nurse 3 at Norcal hospital in 2 years averaged 423k. Base Salary was 167k. The rest in call, call back pay, & OT. I would never do that much overtime and call. She's been an RN for 20 years. CRNA at that same facility were making average 220k 5 years exp. Hardly none did OT. Makes it hard to do all that studying, student loans, stress, relationship stress, lacking full respect by others, more responsibility etc.

The biggest positive I see in being a CRNA is ability to make good money on the east coast as opposed to being locked inside CA.

I used to work at Stanford in the Bay Area, dated another ICU RN who worked at a competing hospital down the road. Her pay was around $125K a year base and mine was around $130K. Astronomically high I thought until I looked at the real estate market there. A crappy 3 bedroom house that needed renovations was starting at 1 Million.

I had a friend that worked in the cardiac cath lab, pulled tons of OT, always on call, pretty much lived to work and he managed to pull about $160K a year as an RN. Of course, he got raped in taxes, uncle Sam loves when RNs work a lot of OT.

The CRNAs I knew of made 250K or more a year there, working 36-40 hours a week with tons of perks and benefits. Not to mention they're actually doing a career that's awesome and requires little to no physical strain.

I've worked in many different states as an RN and the pay in Cali (especially NorCal) is outrageous for RNs. Move away from that area and your pay drops by about 60K a year. Although as a CRNA you can move to plenty of places and still make 200K or more.

[Drodri555]

I'm currently residing in Norcal and have never heard of anyone earning 423K as a RN, even if you literally live at the hospital, I don't really see this salary as being feasible. Bluebolt's salary assessment is pretty much on par for Bay area RN's. A friend of mine worked in Stanford's transplant OR & indicated he earned about 170K, but he was always oncall & worked loads of OT. I work in the Central Valley of CA & earn just over 100K without much OT at all. OT is usually available though, at a rate of about $1100 per shift, which is taxed at an absurd rate. Some of my coworkers have earned about 150-160K, from working a lot of extra shifts.

[Wolf at the Door, BSN]

A lot of none believers I shall post the pay via screenshot.

@BlueBolt...BTW OR is not a lot of physical strain just saying. You were a travel nurse. You never said you went staff. Stanford is not the right hospital to be at.

[Wolf at the Door, BSN]

forget it.

[Onmyway110>]

@CrnaTx, CRNA

Nice, thats is higher than I hoped I would earn once I graduated, my goal was at least 160k a year. What city in Texas, if you dont mind answering?

[2moYearsofHell]

I dropped my jaw when i saw how much my hospital pays the highest CRNAs, up to 225k for the highest, about 10 above 200k. I have heard of new grad CRNAs starting at 400k in Los Angelos, but cost of living is susbstantially higher too. Travel assignments for a month ive seen 25k.....money to be made

[jj224]

There are no new grads making 400k in LA unless they're working obscene amounts of overtime. Areas like LA have plenty of CRNAs and people who'd move there. There is no incentive for the hospital to pay that much.

[2moYearsofHell]

Just passing on what a friend surgeon asked a CRNA.

[Wolf at the Door, BSN]

removing information that was unappreciated.

[rhinoroc]

I'm finding all of this extremely hard to believe and funny how it's always someone's friend or someone they know making an extremely ridiculous amount of money. It's never the person posting the information.