Kaiser San diego RN pay

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I'm posting this for my wife. We currently live in Houston, Texas and we are seriously thinking of moving to San diego, California because of family. My wife has two years of RN( BSN) experiwnce in Neuro icu and progressive care. We already know the living expense of California specially San Diego. We just want to know if anyone works for Kaiser or sharp hospitals and what the pay is and will it be hard to get a job there. All information will be greatly appreciated. Thank you and God bless

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I have family members that work at Kaiser San Diego, they say that new nurses are hired at $42 an hour. I can't really answer anything else.

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I have family members that work at Kaiser San Diego, they say that new nurses are hired at $42 an hour. I can't really answer anything else.

Thank you Sarahparks... I guess I read some things online and I thought kaiser in so Cal specially SD made close to $50 an hour. Anyways thank you. I really appreciate that info.

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Specializes in ER, Trauma, Med-Surg/Tele, LTC.

I don't know about San Diego, but I assume Los Angeles wages wouldn't be too far off. Friends of mine that recently transferred to various Kaisers in the Los Angeles area are making $48/hr base for those with 1-2 years experience and $52/hr base with 3-4 years experience. Kaiser has excellent benefits though including full medical for the employee and family plus 2.5x base for holidays instead of the standard 1.5x. Staffing is also usually better than most other places as Kaiser staffs shifts using a staffing ratio less than California's mandated ratios and will go up to the mandated ratios only when they're "short staffed" from what I saw when shadowing a Kaiser nurse manager for a Leadership class I had to take for my BSN.

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I don't know about San Diego, but I assume Los Angeles wages wouldn't be too far off. Friends of mine that recently transferred to various Kaisers in the Los Angeles area are making $48/hr base for those with 1-2 years experience and $52/hr base with 3-4 years experience. Kaiser has excellent benefits though including full medical for the employee and family plus 2.5x base for holidays instead of the standard 1.5x. Staffing is also usually better than most other places as Kaiser staffs shifts using a staffing ratio less than California's mandated ratios and will go up to the mandated ratios only when they're "short staffed" from what I saw when shadowing a Kaiser nurse manager for a Leadership class I had to take for my BSN.

Thank you very much for the info. I'm sending my application and the other needed documents tomorrow for my California RN license. I'll keep reading and looking for info. Thank you

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I think this is easily done after a few years. I have heard they get raises twice a year, plus pay differential for night shift. But for starting they said everyone gets hired at $42

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I think this is easily done after a few years. I have heard they get raises twice a year, plus pay differential for night shift. But for starting they said everyone gets hired at $42

So with experience or no experience they start at $42 or is it different if you have experience. Thank you

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That is how I interpreted it, but I will double check for you this weekend.

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That is how I interpreted it, but I will double check for you this weekend.

Thank you so much. Greatly appreciated.

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