How much do you make?

hsmom24boys · Jun 24, 2001

I Live in Southeast Alabama. 15 years experience as a RN mostly Peds and OB now working for the largest Hospital in 100 miles as a telephone triage nurse. Our starting salary is (can you believe it) $11.25. We top out at $19.00/hr They only give experience differential for up to 10 years experience. Our shift dif is 8% evening, 16 % nights no weekend or holiday diff, no benefits for prn and no extra pay for prn work. Charge pay is 50 cents an hour and you make 50 cents/hr for a BSN. I have worked here for 2 1/2 years and make about $17.00/hour with benefits for part time work at a higher rate ($ 247.00 month for dental and health insurance) than a full time empoyee and prorated vacation and sick time. Our top merit raise is 4% but no one ever gets more than a 3%. Wanna come work here? :rolleyes:

lactationrn · Jun 25, 2001

RN PRN

Peds/PICU/Mother-baby couplet care

25.54 base

28.54 night shift weeknight

31.54 ngiht shift weekend

Albuquerque NM

9 years experience

Future LPN Sheryl · Jun 25, 2001

CNA, $12.12 an hour. When I graduate as an LPN if I stay at my current job I'll make $21.00 an hour. I get 90% of my medical paid for, I pay $16.00 a week for a family plan. I work for the city.

lactationrn · Jun 25, 2001

The best $$ I ever made was travelling! if you get into a big city like Phoenix for example. you can do travel assignments and never have to move! there are several hospitals there and you can go from one facility to the next making top dollar and have benefits as well as free rent! I miss travelling:)

made 21.50/hr

$900 housing allowance/month

401k

health insurance $50 /mo

end of contract bonuses paid by agency up to $700

end of contract bonuses paid by hispital up to $3500! all for a 3 month comitment!

dont get much better than that!!! :eek:

littlepotato · Jun 25, 2001

I have been an LPN in LTC for 6 years in MN. I started at $9.98/hr as a new grad. I work ON-CALL @ 32 hours a week and currently make $16.44/hr. Because I work ON-CALL I do not get the state approved wage increases, and I am at the top of the pay scale in my facility set for LPN's. I do get a "longegevity bonus" because I have been with the company for over 5 years. That is 3% of your last years wages. I consider myself lucky. My sister and brother have had various jobs, never paying much, and they hate their jobs. I love my job and consider that before I became a nurse I only made $7.25/hr in a factory, which back then I thought was OK. I have taken assessment tests to start the RN program, but i have only done LTC and am fearful of any other area of nursing. I have thought of the military nursing options but am yet undecided. Being that I am at the top of the pay scale, I have to move on and go for my RN.

Magicat · Jun 26, 2001

rn bsn

4 years

base rate $16.44/hr

evening shift differential $18.08

weekend shift differential $22.60

$1.00/hr oncall

med surg and icu

:rolleyes: and i have an extremely long commute......five minutes:p

is this good or bad or what???

cravens'corner

nursing fun

angil · Jun 26, 2001

I've been a RN for 7 years. I work for the State as an Infection Control Coordinator. I make 54,000. + a year, with full benefits.

lalaxton · Jun 26, 2001

NP/CNS

Lousiana

16 years as RN

2 years as NP

$65,000/year

Looks like Texas is not the only place with some high wages, I just saw a job posting on Monster.com for RN's in Cincinatti with a BASE RATE of up to $46/hr plus $4/hr shift diff. :eek:

SusieQ1243 · Jul 8, 2001

Maybe I am missing something (been out of the clinical setting for 5 years... about to go back) but it seems to me if the agencies and travel companies can demand the big pay rates and benefits packages, why don't all nurses join the agencies?

Please be gentle with me... but this just seems like a no-brainer.

Eileen850 · Jul 8, 2001

RN,C (gerontology)

10 yrs as LPN, 18 yrs as RN

Director of Nursing in small LTC facility

$56,000

KC CHICK · Jul 9, 2001

Kansas City, Missouri

1. Graduate nurse - ADN

2. Working for 1 month ( no previous nursing experience of any kind - first job in a hospital.)

3. Surgery - Circulating Nurse (in training)

4. 17.56/hr (36,500/yr) then 17.81/hr (37,000/yr) after passing boards

SusieQ1243 · Jul 9, 2001

LPN

10 years

Self-employed co-owner of assisted living facility (last 5 yrs)

$35,500

Sorry to say, assisted living is not the huge money-maker everyone thinks it is... the people who own them aren't rolling in dough (unless you own several, maybe). Huge overhead.