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How much are you making in 2016. What was your starting pay out if school?
Where are you working?
I am in South Florida. There are lots of Drug detox's and treatment facilities that pay so much more then LTC. I started out making $17.50 at a none profit. Now I am making $23 - $26 depending on where I want to work. I have some LPN friends that are making $28 working at a detox over night. LTC is not the only way to go, and they pay less for more work.
I'm a new grad working in LTC in Metro Atlanta. I'm getting $18+1 (for the first 4 hrs) shift differential with +$0.30 every hour after on the weekdays and $19+3 (again for the first 4 hours) with +$0.50 every hour after on the weekends. Time and a half on holidays and for overtime. I feel this is a good start.
When I first started (I think it was 96 or 97) I made $10 an hour and thought i was making BANK! Of course $10 an hour in 1996 went farther than now. AT least it felt that way. I was single, no kids. i thought I hit the big time in 1998 when I got a job at a derm office in 98 making $12 an hour!
I now work at a psych facility making $28 an hour. It was supposed to be $27 but the day before my orientation I played a bit of poker and told the nursing home I chose another facility that was offering my $28 (they weren't). The facility said they would match it. So now making $28, and boy are they making me work for it.
Wow, reading these comments just makes me feel very underpaid. I started as a Ward Clerk/CNA on the Med-Surg floor at my hospital and they paid for me to go to school for my LPN. I graduated in June and currently work at a walk-in clinic "Urgent Care". I am only making 12.64/hr. The most I know of anyone in my state (WV) getting paid as an LPN right out of school is 18/hr on a telemetry floor in the larger city.
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