How much do new BSN nursing grads make?

[gonnaB37nursedoc]

Hi everyone! I am just wondering how much fresh nursing grads with a BSN degree make. I started a post earlier asking what nursing students make and from the responses it seems like they dont make much at all. Makes me wonder what a nurses salary really is.

[Racer15, BSN, RN]

In KY, new grads make around $19/hour. In my area at least.

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

Uhm...no they don't make $33.00/hr and a BSN grad makes the same as the ADN new grad as you are both new grads. You might be able to find $26.00 but the average in this economy will be about $23.00 around the greater immediate Chicago area with a spattering of a maybe $27.00 for new grads....then add shift diff..... Eventually you might get around $33.00 to $35.00 with a couple of years under your belt...and certifications. Union will pay more than non union......and they will pay for surrounding demographic IE: battle pay for rougher areas...at least they did when I worked Cook Country.

There is a surplus of nurses right now so nursing starting salaries have dropped somewhat. Your $17.00 an hour job is great pay and as I mentioned in your other thread you will not find that as a nursing student.

One should always investigate the realities of a profession and not go on what someone thinks.....however your potential for earnings goes up with experience and time.

But it isn't the yellow brick road the media paints it out to be.

In Boston where I live now new grads downtown are about $28.00/hr at the union facilities but experienced nurses in critical areas are about $60.00. or higher But a one bedroom in downtown will cost you about $1800.

[khone904, BSN, RN]

here in California, in the central valley, new grads, BSN or ADN, starts at 25-30 dollars an hour. My place starts at 30 and some place starts at 25.

[Meriwhen, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN]

Depends on your local job market. Remember that a new grad has little to no experience and likely will not command a high salary even with a BSN.

In addition, some facilities--not all--will offer an additional diff for having a BSN. At my facility, it's either 25 or 50 cents extra per hour.

[PacoUSA, BSN, RN]

In the New York area, you're making upwards of $37 an hour to start in the hospitals as an RN (ADN and BSN differences are quite nominal, about $1k-2K per year). Add overtime to that and you're definitely pushing the $100K/year mark. And with a little creativity, one can live just as simply in New York as one would in the midwest. You don't have to break the bank to live in this city, just be smart about it.

[mommy2one]

Im a new grad starting in Atlanta, I was offered $23/hr in a hospital with $5.00 differential nights and $3.00 differential weekends. I hope to work nights so $28/hr with diff.

[applewhitern, BSN, RN]

I work in Florida. Here a BSN does not get paid more than an ADN. We get paid about 50 cents more per hour for a certification; for some reason, they value certifications more than a BSN. I have worked places where I got paid about 50 cents per hour for my BSN, however, that is not the norm. If you are looking to get rich, it won't be in nursing.

[Palliative Care, DNP]

Where I work it is $20 on days and $25 on nights. Welcome to the south! BSNs & ADNs make the same here.

[hi616]

My cousin who graduated with BSN got hired at a magnet hospital in Chicago about two years ago for about $35/hour if I remember right. Not sure about shift differentials.

[turnforthenurse, MSN, NP]

Thank you everyone for your responses. This is really disheartening! I currently make $17 per hr in a non-nursing field and the thought of not becoming financially liberated EVEN after working so hard to get my BSN is depressing. I live in the chicagoland area. I was thinking that BSN grads make over $33 per hr over here. I did not ask anyone but that is what i thought.

Don't forget that a lot of this is your base pay. Most new grads end up working nights for a year or two or sometimes more since the nurses who have been there longer typically want a dayshift position (but not always). Nights typically get a shift differential, and that also varies by hospital and the area. A hospital that I used to work at in Ohio only offered an additional $1 for night shift staff. Where I work now (TX) my shift differential is nearly $4 from 1900-2359 and from 0000-0659 it is roughly $6 on top of my base pay. Then they may also factor in weekend pay which may be an additional $1 or two.

[dirtyred3]

In the Atlanta area, new grads at hospitals make $20 on up and SNF they make about $22 and home health $32.

[MunoRN, RN]

salary.com is pretty good source for current pay info. According to them, about $27 an hour is the starting rate in Chicago, which doesn't include healthcare deductions, figure a few dollars less once that's taken out (or even more than a "few"). If you're in an area where you have an advantage with a BSN for hiring then you do sort of make more than an ASN, since no job=no money. Although that varies by region, my hospital has had a hiring freeze on BSN's for 5 years now, we only hire ASN new grads.