Job seeking in FL

[chinotto_21]

Hi everyone,

I landed an interview at Bethesda in Boynton Beach. I'd like to know if anyone is aware of the salary I could expect as an ICU RN with 3 years of experience.

Thank you very much.

[Meeshie]

About 10-20 percent less than you'd make in most other states, generally speaking. Florida's pay scale is lower.

[chinotto_21]

Thank you!

[Buyer beware, BSN]

OP:

You could try the noble Tenet Corporation facilities in many areas of Palm Beach County along with the kinder and gentler HCA hospitals. (just joking)

One of the more intransigent issues in South Florida for younger nurses is the tendency of the crustiest of the crusty old bat nurses that seem to hang onto employment at one bat cave institution or another (St.Marys in WPB) comes to mind for 35-40 even 50 years.

These folks walk around like the grand poobahs of the block and won't retire until either dragged out or summonded by the grimm reaper himself.

Another issue is that Florida is a "right to be fired for looking at me cross eyed state" and as the previous poster has stated the wages go to the investors and the clueless CEOs who know how to manage the spoils in a much more free market way.

But some hospitals are Unionized like the aforementioned St. Marys and because of that the wages are higher there. (funny how that works)

But guess what? That's right. That's the heart of the crusty old bat lair.

Really there's no winning in paradise!

So seriously the secret is for all you weasels and weasels in training out there, if you want to live in paradise, come here working as a traveller. Work for subsistence wages, undercut the crusties and maybe the slave drivers will, once they have exploited you to the max, hire you on full time; but, of course, at far lower wages than they afforded nurse crusty.

But don't take it personally, it's just business as Luka Brazzi used to say.

[chinotto_21]

That was SO FUNNY to read! Thank you so much for answering. However, it just makes me feel even more hopeless.