How much is your pay?

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I'm just curious...

Salaries varies from state to state, as well as the years of experience, and the area of specialty, right? How much is your pay per month? :heartbeat :nurse: :heartbeat

When I started a new job on day-shift in MS, my pay is $20.80/hour and that was with over four years experience. I had no other options for better pay in this area. I am now probably looking at much lower pay since I cannot work the floor with full-load of patients due to health.

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Specializes in Rehab, Neuro, Travel Nurse, Home Care.

I have been a RN for 6 years and work 12 hour nights. I make $39/hour. Work in PA

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Another opinion.

If you like your workplace and coworkers, you could get a union in, to make salaries more equitable.:mad:

My wife was in a union for 5 years working as an RN in a hospital in Northern New Jersey. She has no desire to ever be in a union again in the future. For all the union dues she's had to pay they've done nothing for her. Take it from us, unionizing is NOT the answer. The only ones who get rich are the lawyers and the leadership. Not the employees.

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This information is from 2004 but will give you a general idea regarding salaries in comparison to the cost of living for each state. For instance California may have the highest average salaries but after factoring in the cost of living it drops to #44.

http://www.ga.unc.edu/NCCN/research/quickfacts/Salary%20Adjustment%20Table.htm

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Specializes in Med Surg, Case Management, OR.

$23.60 hourly for Home Health case manager. I took a $3 per hour pay cut to leave the hospital. But I do get a company car for my travels (average 60-115 miles daily). The company pays for everything associated to my company car.

I have 7 years nursing experience and live in the midwest.

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Specializes in home health.

LVN LTC 5 years at this place. 22.00/hr. No shift diff at all

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I will start as an OB nurse (new grad) nights in Aug and the pay is about $21/hr with shift diff. After reading a lot of the salaries on here, I feel woefully underpaid!! :bugeyes:

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$80k a year but I work nights and that includes differential. If I wanted OT I could crack 100k with ease. 13 years exp. middle of NC. No bonuses for BSN or certification. I work in various ICU's.

Holy frig! $80k? NC? I need to move to your part of the state! You don't have to tell me where you work but some hints would be great... :wink2:

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Specializes in Psych , Peds ,Nicu.

ADN RN with 20 yrs experience central valley CA , $47 / Hr , Night Shift diff $6/ Hr . Median home price $250k ( from zillow.com). PTO accrual 10 - 15% depending on time with employer .

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Specializes in OB, HH, ADMIN, IC, ED, QI.
My wife was in a union for 5 years working as an RN in a hospital in Northern New Jersey. She has no desire to ever be in a union again in the future. For all the union dues she's had to pay they've done nothing for her. Take it from us, unionizing is NOT the answer. The only ones who get rich are the lawyers and the leadership. Not the employees.

This is not the subject of this thread, and may need to be placed in another one, possibly entitled "Unions: Blessing or Curse?".

What made me respond, is that no specifics regarding the union's involvement have been given, like what the wife or others at the facility where she works, earned previously, without a union, and what the earnings, working conditions or other issues became afterward. Also why is her husband writing for her?

I've worked in both union represented and non union involved circumstances, and can tell you that I earned much more in better conditions when in a union.

The union was usually the state's Nursing Association (California), and politics can be difficult to deal with, as they can reflect the "You got your request last time, now I want mine".

Certainly the union represents its own interests as well as the workers'. It wouldn't exist if there wasn't a win-win-win reason.:twocents:

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Specializes in Psychiatrics.

Here in Iowa we are at the bottom of the national payscale. We on average get paid about $8,000 a year less than the national average of 47,000 a year. This is RN's I'm talking about.

I got started out at 14.00 an hour when I started as an LPN, when I got up to 17.00 an hour--these were at a LTC facility. When I moved to a hospital I got bumped up to 18.42 an hour. Now I work for a staffing agency and I make anywhere from 22.00-25.00 an hour depending on the facility/hospital that I work at. I still won't make the national average even with the major amounts of overtime that I put in. I won't come close to the $47,000.

So..........If anyone is thinking about relocating and they are wanting a payraise......don't come to Iowa. The hospitals are great, the LTC facilties are great, but the pay isn't. Isn't MEDICARE awesome?

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Specializes in ICU, telemetry, LTAC.

RN, 3 years experience, currently ICU, Georgia. $55k/year and I'm just over $23/hr. Night shift's differential adds about $300 per month into that, so I'll be on nights a long, long while. I've worked on average 2 overtime days per month. When the OT is available I'll work it (4 night weeks instead of 3 night weeks, 12 hr shifts) and when it isn't, I'll sit on the couch and pick my nose! Err, or watch TV. I'm too lazy to get to know a whole different hospital's way of doing things, so I'm just working one place.

This is supporting 3 people and also paying for their health and our car insurance. It's enough to afford our needs, and some of the wants, depending on the size of them. I'm beginning to think I have to categorize that car I want as a need, since it will get better gas mileage!

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