How much did you start as a nurse and when.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

Just a curiosity thread:

What was your first nursing salary and when did you command what I'm sure is going to be such high salaries? LOL.

Me: 13.18/hr as an RN in San Antonio in 1993.

Ironically, I left my LPN job outside of Baltimore MD to take that job, and I was making 14.50/hr as an LPN in LTC in MD at that time.

(My first healthcare job, as a CNA in 1991: 6.20/hr.)

~faith,

Timothy.

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

I just became an LPN and will start at $18/hr at a LTC facility. However, I do remeber my first CNA job in 1987 I started out at $5.93/hr!!

After graduating nursing school I requested at least $16/hr to start as LPN. That seems to be somewhat average here, some places (LTC) pay a lot higher than that.

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Specializes in RN, BSN, CHDN.

It seems such a long time ago but it really wasn't aprox $10-11 per hour, in the early 90's.

Before I left the UK dec 05 aprox $3700 per month after tax. Here $24 per hour when I worked as an RN. On SSD now so a bit poor.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Trauma, Ortho, Neuro, Cardiac.

$14.00/hr in Durham, NC in 1992.

$12.50/hr in St. Petersburg, FL in 1993.

Now $29.00 in St. Petersburg. My salary has more than doubled since that time, so I'm not complaining.

Sometime in the late 90s we went to a "pay for skills" system and it marketedly jumped many salaries, but mine rose by $1.00/hr. We've had several market adjustments. Last year my salary rose by over 10%.

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17.10 North Carolina. med/surg in 2002

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In 1994 I made $16 and change as an RN in LTC/Rehab. I believe that the pay went up and extra dollar an hour for the 2-3 yrs I was there.

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1989, started at $14-something as an interim permittee. went up to $16-something when i got my license. my ip starting pay was more than my dad was making after 30+ years as a government employee!!

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I started at $7.50 an hour in 1988 as an LPN. I got a raise to 12.50 an hour in 1992 when I became an RN.

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The San Francisco RNs had work strikes during the years 1967 - 68, when the salaries in CA were about ~$400/ month.

I felt rich when I graduated later that year from nursing school and started with $700/ month, which is about $4.00/hr.

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Specializes in ICU, step down, dialysis.

$6.59/hr as a RN new grad in 1985 (nursing home). Got a raise up to $7.10/hr after I received my license (you could work on a temp permit back then until your results came back a few months later).

With shift diff, I make over $40/hr today.

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Specializes in Day Surgery/Infusion/ED.

$8.36/h in 1985

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1981 -7.25 as LVN after 5 yrs 7.95 to 18.00/hr in 2006 as LVN

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