Kaiser New Grad Salary - Bay Area

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I know there's a lot of talk about salary, but I haven't seen anything current that quite answers my question.

I'm trying to gauge what the top end of a new grad salary is in the Bay Area - specifically what you were making the day you were hired, not after your 6 month/1 year raise.

Can any recent new grads (2016 and beyond) working for Kaiser comment on what your starting salary/hourly is, including any differentials? Those hired on as new grads at other hospitals, please feel free to add the name of your hospital and your starting salary, too.

I'll start, although I'm not working for this hospital yet.

Good Samaritan, San Jose: $50.40/hr with a $6 night diff, and $2 for weekends.

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Specializes in ICU.

I have the numbers contract says..well wait I often post numbers with little gratitude.

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I have the numbers contract says..well wait I often post numbers with little gratitude.

I'm sorry, I'm not quite sure I'm catching what you mean. Can you explain?

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Specializes in ICU.
I'm sorry, I'm not quite sure I'm catching what you mean. Can you explain?

I often post salary for CA jobs and nobody else shares info or there is hardly ever a thank you.

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I often post salary for CA jobs and nobody else shares info or there is hardly ever a thank you.

Thank you in advance? Lol. Please don't take this the wrong way, but I really don't know why you would reply in the manner that you did. So you have the information, but are unwilling to share it. You didn't really give me a chance to show gratitude before seeming to assume that I wouldn't, did you?

Anyhow - irrelevant.

Can any new grads please reply?

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Specializes in ICU.

Nothing personal against you. I replied in the manner I did, due to editing my post. I removed the new grad pay.

I posted Kaiser's LA area contract in the California section and not one darn thank you. As if these people had a clue what the pay was prior to that. Google is a godsend it provides everything.

I am going to keep my info to myself from now on. This nurse is shutting down:smokin:. Just huffing and puffing my frustrations with USERs.

Wolf is going to bed. Have a good night

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If you are looking for jobs in the bay area they they will pay quite well. I know compared to Nevada, california nurses make $40-60/hr depending in area and experience.

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Nothing personal against you. I replied in the manner I did, due to editing my post. I removed the new grad pay.

I posted Kaiser's LA area contract in the California section and not one darn thank you. As if these people had a clue what the pay was prior to that. Google is a godsend it provides everything.

I am going to keep my info to myself from now on. This nurse is shutting down:smokin:. Just huffing and puffing my frustrations with USERs.

Wolf is going to bed. Have a good night

Thank you for the clarification. :) I do understand your frustration with freely giving information, and then having people take it for granted - like it was owed to them. I have tried Googling, and I have gotten ranges, but I know that in the Bay Area, for for new grads especially, the salary can be a bit different than for other parts of California. I'm actually not even sure if Kaiser regards new grads in their program as RN I's, or if they're categorized under some other pay grade. I'll keep looking.

If you are looking for jobs in the bay area they they will pay quite well. I know compared to Nevada, california nurses make $40-60/hr depending in area and experience.

Thanks for the reply, desert. :) The wages in California are definitely higher than Nevada, but then the cost of living is pretty astronomical here, in comparison, too. I've definitely had moments where I've toyed with the idea of moving to Reno to get away from the uber expensive housing here.

Between $40 and $60 leaves a pretty wide gap, hehe. I read in another thread that someone who was working as an RN II at Kaiser was trying to break the $200k/yr barrier, I think? They didn't quite hit their goal, but they did end up making...$170k-ish. I'm not sure if that's an anomaly or something that's expected around here. I have heard that Kaiser pays the most out of any hospital organization out here, so I would assume that it's closer to $60 an hour, but I'm really hoping that someone out there has more specific numbers.

Earlier today, I spoke with someone who has worked for Sutter for the last 18 years as an LVN. She was saying that the pay at Good Sam ($50.40/hr) was pretty low for an RN, and that she was already basically making that as an LVN. It REALLY made me wonder what the new grad RNs at Sutter were making!

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@spaghetina thank you for starting this thread. I am about to finish school and move back to the Bay Area, my mind is swimming with so many questions on how to go about applying for jobs. Did you start at Good Sam yet? I would love to do the STARrn program there even though the pay is lower than other hospitals in the area I think I would benefit from the extended training. If you have any advice for me I would be very grateful.

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Kaiser Northern California New Grad Staff Nurse I: $60.99/hr, $11.20 night diff

They recently bargained a new contract which includes a raise, so starting rate is probably around $64 now for new grads.

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