low balling me with pay rate?

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So I went to an interview for peds home health and was offered a position. I have not accepted because the pay rate bring offered is $17/hr. I haven't made that since before I was an LVN. I'm in the DFW area and I'm wondering if that is typical pay for a HH LVN.

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Specializes in ICU Stepdown.

DFW area? Lol I'm in MN and I know CNAs that get paid more than that

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That is now considered to be "high" for LVNs in southern CA since employers have been steadily decreasing pay rates for the past several years. When you look at job postings over time, you will now see ads offering LVNs $14 or $15 an hour. Couple that with the recent news reports of how rents are increasing in that part of the country and you will see that home health nursing is no longer such a viable occupation there.

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

Home health/ PDN pay is notoriously low. I make $11/hour LESS at my PDN job than in the hospital. (I stay at my PDN job for non-monetary reasons)

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I was given a lowball offer by several companies I am in the Dallas area as well as a PT. It was several companies that attempted that as well. There are so many PT jobs out here that I kept looking.

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Specializes in LTC.

Jeez, I work LTC in the Austin area and make $24/hr. That pay rate seems really low, considering around here HH and hospice LVN's makes at least as much as LTC LVN's if not a little more.

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Specializes in Management, Med/Surg, Clinical Trainer.

That seems low for he Dallas area. Just did a quick salary search on indeed and it gives an average pay rate of $22.00 for LVN.

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Specializes in Pedi.

I'm guessing this is PDN. PDN pays next to nothing.

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I don't know the pay rate in the area that you live but I do know that a lot of PEDS cases are Medicaid and the reimbursement for these cases is horrible. For example a large HHC agency that is in most states in the US lowered pre-existing LPNs to $15 and RNs to $18 for private duty around two years ago. Other agencies in my area are only offering a dollar more, tops, some only willing to meet the $15 without benefits

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Specializes in Cardio-Pulmonary; Med-Surg; Private Duty.

In Michigan, RNs on Medicaid cases are only making $20-$22/hour.

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Florida pays between $10 -$12.00 per hour. for a home health aide with a CNA license for 6 plus years.You do not get paid for the mileage,unless you are taking the patient somewhere.

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PDN sucks. At my agency I got paid 25 as an RN on only ONE case. And depending on the day of the week ... less. But decent pay nonetheless for a new nurse such as myself. After they took me off that case and put me on 3 more I look at my paycheck to see that I'm now being paid as an LPN ... $18 for 2 cases and $20 for the other.

Point is if they're not paying an RN correctly they're not paying you correctly either. I suggest to stay away from PDN and home health.

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