How much is your pay?

AnnieNHRN · Apr 4, 2008

Live in NH. 10 yrs med/surg experience. I make $31.50/hr. $11 more/hr any shift I pick up above my 32 hr/wk. We have a $5 night dif., 2.25 evening dif., 1.50 weekend dif.

I think new grads make about $20/hr.

I love my hospital and my team, decent nurse/pt ratio. I could easily be making over $40/hr if I worked 40 min south in Boston... I might consider that when kids start college! :uhoh3:

PR_Nurse30 · Apr 4, 2008

I'm in cleveland, ohio, 1year working an lpn in long term care nurse & my pay is 18.00/hour!! plus a bonus if you dont miss any days!! i am going back to school so we'll see how much later!!

michael1 · Apr 4, 2008

In Boston and the surrounding areas, the average base entry rate is around $25.00-$29.00/hour. That is not including o/t or shift differential. The highest paid hospital is at $29.88 base entrance rate. The lowest I have heard is $25.50. I would say that 80% of the hospitals, including some major ones in Boston are at or around $27/hour. Hope this helps!

surgery7 · Apr 4, 2008

People are moving to Kentucky because the living cost is wonderful compared to almost everywhere else on this thread whereas our house payments are $1600 to $4000 a month minimum. Don't fret. Maybe a travel stint where you can make a quick block of money occasionally is just what you need. Then when you look around you can appreciate your lower cost of living.

NYCRN6 · Apr 4, 2008

I get paid 26.05 starting out 1.50 weekends and 2.00 evening shift... so i get paid 28.05 (since i work 5 evenings). I take home about 800-900 a week. Every third weekend off. Health care benefits are GREAT... Im a new grad started in October

blueiwahine · Apr 4, 2008

I work PRN and make $36.00 an hr on graveyard shift...with the option to work as many hours as I want.

SC-RN · Apr 4, 2008

As a new grad my pay rete is $22/ph plus penalties for weekend or PM shifts. Included are all health immunisations and study days of course.

wilbur's mom · Apr 4, 2008

This cloak of secrecy is part of the reason we get taken advantage of! In NY our hospitals hand out flyers, and nursing homes advertise their pay, with everyone's salary steps spelled out clearly. I was horrified to hear there are still agencies out there who write in a secrecy about pay clause into their contracts, so the regular staff nurses who are making a fraction of what the agency nurses are right next to them, don't find out and quit!!!! Hello!!! are we really that stupid? If I had stayed in the hospital (ICU) I would make $28. and change. Plus benefits and retirement. After 21 years I went into teaching, and my .5 FTE, $19/hr with no benefits, and growing amts. of unpaid work because the grades and lesson plans MUST get done doesn't balance out a school year schedule like I hoped it might. I am now reconsidering another year. I joke about opening a pet care daycare center, but am half serious. I have all these years of experience and an honorable work ethic, do the work of 2 1/2 nurses every day, and haven't even been thanked in I can't remember how long.

lamazeteacher · Apr 4, 2008

I'm starting a new job in Virginia, at 28.32/hour + $3./hour for working evenings. Telephonic "disease manager" with 35 years of experience.

07rn2b · Apr 4, 2008

cleveland, ohio here. i have just under a year of experience under my belt. my starting wage is $22.50/hr. there is a $1 shift diff offered for any hours worked between 3 pm and 7 am the next day. nothing extra for weekends, and i am required to work e/o with one free weekend/year. on the plus side, i earn about 8.5 hours of pto each pay, which i think is pretty good. they have recently taken away "premium" pay incentives to come work ot when staffing is short. they have also taken away the bonuses for the prn employees who work above their required hours in any quarter. and, they have also taken away the healthy bonuses that the night shift staff used to earn. consequently, we are consistently short-staffed and no one wants to work extra with "only" earning time and a half for anything over 40 hours/week.

oh yeah, and my raise this year will probably be 75 cents/hour.

reading this thread is making me reconsider relocation to somewhere else.

neddylou63 · Apr 4, 2008

Your are lucky to make that. I do not complain at the amount I get paid because I have an easy job, much like a school nurse. m-f 8-4 no weekends holidays off plus a float day. I do not do to much hands on, mostly just visual assesments, phone calls, and paperwork. I think I am lucky. My annual review will be in 2 months and will get a raise then. LVN pay here is not all that much. CNA's here make 8-about 14 an hour.

Not to sound snippy, but I'm a school nurse, and my job's not "easy". I see 40-55 kids a day and there are mounds of paperwork. I work from 7:20 and am required to stay till 3:05 (school is over at 2:25) but am hardly ever out before 4. I coordinate the mass hearing and vision screening for 1st, 3rd, and 5th grades every year, do all the retests myself and send the results to the parents and follow up to make sure they did the appropriate action; keep up with all the immunizations and eye, ear and dental forms...there is way more to it than you would think. It's nothing like the 14 years I spent in the ICU, of course, just a different type of busy and it's frustrating because it doesn't get a lot of respect! I work just outside of Atlanta and my pay is abysmal. I've been a nurse for 24 years and a school nurse for 5 and I just now make 24K a year. And I'm one of the better-paid nurses in the district due to experience. All the schools in our county are not this busy; but a few are even more. One of my friends sees 60-something kids a day. I do it for the schedule (I'm a single mom with school-aged kids), plus people have changed SO much since I got into nursing. They used to really appreciate you...and by the time I got out of the hospital, it was such a different climate. They were so accusatory and it was like they were looking for you to do something wrong. Sometimes I miss using my critical care knowledge but really, I have no desire to go back to the hospital with the way the public is today. The kids love and appreciate me so much--they draw me pictures, come in just to give me a hug and give me presents on Nurses' Day! The parents are very appreciative of me also. It feels so good to have someone tell me that they trust whatever I think or that they know their child is in good hands with me. My son goes to school here with me as well and that is a big plus, getting to be with him. Also, I have diabetic students, students with seizures and tube feedings and renal failure and one child who has a rare disease that has only been diagnosed in 2 other people--some weird rare form of gammaglobulinemia so that's been really interesting. I have 17 daily meds at my school. So it's not like I don't do any nursing.

Although, we (the group of us) always joke that we could write a book about the stupid things kids come to the clinic for sometimes...you have to be an optician, cobbler, seamstress, etc. I'm always gritting my teeth and thinking, "They think I went to Nursing school for this?" I would love to start a thread for school nurses about dumb things they've had in the clinic! (Like a child who came to me because the roof of his mouth itched. I said, "Well, scratch it with your tongue." The teacher actually sent him to the clinic for that. My friend who sees the 60 kids had a kid come TWICE because her belly button itched. WHY???)

But I just wanted to say, it's not "easy"! :nurse:

Peggyd · Apr 4, 2008

I am an RN, Chicago suburbs. 31 years exp. as RN. 6 years as a school nurse, non-certified $16.25/hr. Isn't that pathetic? Oh, I don't have to pay for my health insurance.