How much do you make?

OBNURSEHEATHER · Apr 4, 2001

RN

OB

$18.54/hr, days, 8 hr. shifts

2 years exp.

ucavalpn · Apr 4, 2001

1. LPN

2. 9 years

3. Home Health

4. 17.43 hr. - day shift

e-nurse · Apr 4, 2001

RN

3 months

CT Surg

20.20 + 3 and change night diff

Navy Nurse · Apr 4, 2001

The pay in South Texas is that good right now. I was offered a job a manager of a NICU starting at 125,000 with benefits and with a 10,000 sign on bonus. My wife was offered a staff nurse job in the NICU starting at $35.00/hr with the same sign on bonus plus benefits.

kidzrn2001 · Apr 4, 2001

I am also an RN in Texas. I work the NICU (level II and III). I make 28.00/hr. I have 7 years experience. There are nursing agencies here paying 45.00/hr. and I am planning to do agency work part-time.

buck227 · Apr 5, 2001

1.Position held.(RN,LVN/LPN)

2.Years as a nurse.

3.Area of work.(M/S,ER,LTC,etc.)

4.Current hourly wage.

This should be interesting. Thanks.[/b

Old job (i just quit last month)

1.Staff Nurse RN

2.5

3.Trauma ICU (Level 1)

4.$16.50/hr base pay. But I worked Night weekends for a year and I made 53k with bonuses included. Trauma burned me out along with the management so I quit

New Job

1.RN

2.5

3.Chronic Dialysis

4.$17.50

oramar · Apr 5, 2001

Originally posted by Zee_RN:
Area of country/world I think is important too...regional variations make a difference:

1. RN
2. 6 years exp.
3. ICU
4. $17.96 / hr
5. SW Pennsylvania

Boy Zee, wages around here really stink, that is what I was making when I left hospital work 1 year ago.

ShannonB25 · Apr 5, 2001

Sounds like I need to move to Houston What do new grads make around those parts?

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Jay-Jay, RN · Apr 5, 2001

92K!!! No wonder so many Ontario nurses have gone to Texas!!

I just got a pay raise. I started in community nursing 2 yrs. ago at $18.25/hr. After about a year, it went to $18.75, now, with the last cheque, I'm up to $20.00/hr.

No benefits, and I have about 4 yrs experience. Agency and hospital nurses do a lot better, I'd say about $22-27 dollars an hour.

How come home health pays so poorly, when we don't get benefits, don't get paid breaks, and have far more responsibility than hospital nurses?? There's no MD just around the corner to help out, and we have to handle EVERYTHING - medical, surgical, peads, palliative, transplant pts, you name it!! One of the nurses has a 9 mo. old baby on her caseload, who just had a liver transplant. I may have to look after him this weekend, when I'm covering for her! I have NEVER done pediatrics, and, never having had kids, have next to no experience with babies!!

Chris-FNP · Apr 5, 2001

92K!!!

That sounds a little fishy. NOT THAT I DON'T BELIEVE YOU!!! However, family practice doctors make around 100-150K. Something seems a little odd here. How the heck can an institution afford to pay these rates? It makes no economical sense. Are all staff nurses making 50-100K? If so, then good for you, that's great. I'd love to make 92K as an NP, but that's a lot of money and you don't make that unless you work in some up-scale surgical clinic. Even then, 92K is pretty much not possible.

Chris

NurseJenn · Apr 5, 2001

1. Rn

NurseJenn · Apr 5, 2001

1. Rn

2. Med/Surg/Tele

3. 1 yr. experience

4. Small hospital in E.Texas

5. 15.05/hr