How much do you make?

patadney · Feb 11, 2002

It's amazing the diversity of wages offered and the pay is so low some places it's a wonder there are any nurses at all!I have been a nurse since 1976 and have learned 1 thing-if you take a low-paying job it will haunt you for the rest of your career-no hospital will raise you much over what you were making! I am now working psych for $18.20 an hr plus $2 per hr shift differential and $1 per hr charge,but am picking up extra hrs per diem at a higher pay scale. My benefits are very good also.

jayray · Feb 11, 2002

1. LPN

2. 5 YRS

3. lONG TERM CARE

4. $17/HR

5. MICHIGAN

Janelle, RN · Feb 11, 2002

1) BSN, RN

2) 2 years

3) Home Health

4) 92,500 a year, just kidding! LOL:chuckle , i make $25/hr .

5) New Jersey

CelticNurse · Feb 11, 2002

1) RN

2) 4 years

3) Trauma Intensive Care

4) £24,000 p.a. (approx. $33,000)

5) London (England)

momrn50 · Feb 11, 2002

RN, 7years, LTC charge nurse 3-11 shift, $16.30/hr.:roll

debRNCN · Feb 11, 2002

1. RN

2. 6 yrs

3. Med-surg charge nurse

4. 24.41/hr

BABYGIRL_RN · Feb 12, 2002

WORK AS AN RN

WITH 3 YEARS EXPERIENCE

WORK IN CCU/ICU

BABYGIRL_RN · Feb 12, 2002

WORK AS AN RN

WITH 3 YEARS EXPERIENCE

WORK IN CCU/ICU

MAKE $36.00 AN HOUR

LAST YEAR CLEARED $46,000

GREAT PLACE TO WORK. ALSO FIXING TO GET ANOTHER RAISE, AND RETENTION BONUS.

ALSO STARTING TO GET DOUBLE OVERTIME WITH NICE BONUS PAY!

P_RN, ADN, RN · Feb 12, 2002

BabyGirl, is that $36 straight pay per hour? How many hours per day/ per week? When does overtime start?

Is that with or without benefits?

That sounds wonderful.

mattsmom81 · Feb 12, 2002

Interesting to see how salariesand conditions vary 'round the USA. As for me, last job ending Sept. 2001 (currently on sabbatical by choice):

RN CCRN 25 year nurse (3 LPN, 22 RN)

Charge/staff CVICU

Fort Worth Texas

FT base $23 hr plus $1 hr charge (whoopie) and $3.75 hr night diff = $27.75 weeknights. Weekend diff adds another $3.75 hr.

Includes benes for me only--gotta pay extra for family.

Critical care PRN's make $28 hr base plus diffs ($3.75) Great deal if you don't need benes!

Agency of course pays the best - up to $40's hr base. Great if you like the variety and can be flexible.

Yeah, Houston and South Texas pays well but I'd never want to live there or raise a family there myself...gotta look at those issues too :) Cost of living here in Fort Worth is reasonable and it's a good place to live. There is a nursing 'shortage' here but only in hospital bedside care if ya know what I mean. We import a lot of Fillipino, African and other foreign nurses. So language barriers can be a challenge here in the hospital... added to our high native Spanish speaking population. We are a right to work state, very anti union. My experiences in the North (I trained in Minnesota) were better from a professional standpoint but overall I guess I can't complain too much, ya'll!!

Michelle_nurse · Feb 12, 2002

RN (assistant head nurse)

Geriatrics (VAC)

$50 430/yr, (Canadian) equals out to about $26/hr plus we have premiums for nights/evenings and weekends.......will be getting a 6% raise soon.

full benefits

less than a year experience. (I'm in the first echelon)

hogan4736, BSN, RN · Feb 12, 2002

RN

Urgent Care, nights

My week: Wed 10 hrs; Thurs 15 hrs; Fri 15 hrs (all is charge/nite diff)

$25/hr base, $2/hr nights, $0.80/hr charge, $0.50/hr wknds (thursday 0000 - monday 0800...23 hours for me/week)

12 days/month...59,000/yr

I'm due for a whopping 2% raise this year...HMO

:cool: