How much did you start as a nurse and when.

[ZASHAGALKA]

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.

[weirdRN, RN]

$8.50/hr CNA 2004

$15.00/hr LPN 2005

$21.50/hr RN 2006

If I worked nights, I could add another three dollars an hour to the RN pay.

[weirdRN, RN]

Stupid question: How do salary caps work? where can I find more information on them? How do COLA increases work?

[pickledpepperRN]

1965 $1.65 an hour as a CNA 40 cents above minimum wage

1966 $2.15 and hour as an LVN in a SNF Quit the first week, unethical.

1976 I cleared $256.00 every two weeks as an experienced LVN

1986 From $10.50 an hour LVN AIDS unit to $10.55 as an RN in critical care

Now at same job about $50.00 with night differential+ 1 1/2 after 8 hours

[madcamRN]

I will start my first RN job in a couple weeks.

$24.53 per hour plus $5 /hr night shift differential.

[NurseCard, ADN]

16.50 (base) in 2003, in Kentucky, as a hospital RN.

7.00 (base) in 1999, as an aide, same state, same hospital. :)

[HeartsOpenWide, RN]

What factors do you believe are causing such raises? Of course it will more hight than the 70's, but for some it has gone way up since just the 90's. (and not just because they are more experience, they are starting out at muptiples more)

[White Shoes]

7.82/ hr in 1982 as an RN in a major teaching hospital.

23.00/ hr week days and 34.50 an hour weekends now as an RN at a retirement community. I think it would be higher now, but I took the last 8 years off, so I had to start at base pay.

White Shoes

[lovemyjob]

It is amazing how pay differs even now for us new nurses. I have been nursing for just under two years...havent hit my 2 year eval yet and am at 21.24 for BSN and 4/hr night plus extra 5/ hr weekends, plus 5/hr when we sign up extra when census is over our pt limit (better believe i sign up for that!!)

Wow, how far we have come!!

I know nurses making over 90,000 a year......one day, one day!!

[Gompers, BSN, RN]

I started as an RN, BSN at $16.55/hr in 1998, Chicago.

I haven't changed jobs at all since then, and I've averaged a $1.50/hr raise every year since then, so up over $10/hr now from where I started. After this summer's raise, I should be at about $29/hr.

That's just day shift base pay, though. I work 12-hour nights, so add $2.75 to all my PM hours, and $3.50 to all my night hours, plus $1.50/hr for the weekends.

:)

[nursemary9, BSN, RN]

Hi

I can barely believe it, but I started in

1966 as an RN for the State of Illinois in a Psych Facility at

$2.50/ Hr!!

Now, it's amazing--$33.50/Hr + nite differential of $3.00/hr.

Salaries have come a long way, but so has cost of living!!

Mary Ann

[DutchgirlRN, ASN, RN]

1976 - $3.75/hr at a large hospital and that was a good pay rate at the time. Gas was 67 cents per gallon. It's all relative. Interesting thread, thanks.

[LilRedRN1973]

I'm a really new RN (started in August 2005) and started at $23.96/hour. Just received a VERY small raise and am now making $25/hour. We don't get a weekend differential at our facility and our night shift diff. is 10%.

ETA: What's really screwed up is there are RN's in my unit who have been there for 15-20 years and are making the same as my classmate who just started out as a new RN at $33/hr.

Melanie = )