LPN average wages. Don't want to get duped!

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Hello,

New grad LPN here. I have a couple of offers, but I want to make sure I am not getting lowballed,etc. What is the average hourly wage for an LPN working:

Nursing home?

Agency?

Registry?

Doctor's office/clinic?

Hospital?

PRN @ hospitals?

PRN@ nursing homes?

I also have a bachelors in another field, too.

I appreciate the advice a great deal!

Thanks,

Pickle

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As an LPN in tampa/st pete area last year... I made 20/hr working days at a mental health facility fresh out of lpn school. Night shift differential was an extra 2/hr and you could get another 2/hr if you didn't want benefits. A friend of mine worked PRN at a HCA hospital (again fresh out of lpn school) and was making 25/hr but i think that might have been with his night shift differential. Another friend is working at a home health care agency and makes 15/hr. Another classmate of mine worked days at a nursing home and made 16 or 17 an hour. I was offered a PRN @ a nursing home for 19/hour. Also, I interviewed for a position that was kind of like a clinic and they paid 14/hr. It was next to the hospital and I would have been taking care of mildly ill children whose parents worked at the hospital so they didn't have to call off work when their kids were sick... but I didn't get the job and was glad anyway. Hope that helps a little.

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Specializes in COS-C, Risk Management.

Some of it depends on what part of the state you're in. Wages are lower in the northern and panhandle parts of the state than in SOFL.

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