LPN/LVN rate of pay in your area.

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This topic has been around before, but I was looking for something more up to date. Things have fluctuated in past two years or so. I know people are always looking for salaries and most of the time its for RN's. I'll start ;-)

Around the Cincinnati area here I'm not sure about the starting pay or pay in hospitals for LPN's. But I know LTC facilities are about 16 to start ranging up to about 22. I've seen ad's in the paper saying $24 but I don't know what that was for. Agencys are about 21-25 dollars for LPN's also. I believe Jobs are plentiful around here! Also when I was up in columbus, I heard an instructor saying they are starting their LPN's out with $27-30 while the RN's get about $40-50 ..I don't really believe that, but I just tossed that out there maybe for some clarification?

I am a new grad in California in a hospital. med surg and make 14.95

most hospitals will not hire you around here as a new grad

Specializes in 5 years peds, 35 years med-surg.

I just retired from 25 years in the same hospital in the Tampa Bay area of Florida and I only made $17 + $4 an hr for working EVERY weekend. I now work part time in home health and make $17 doing shifts. The sosuth has always been known for low pay. Kinda sad isn't it....lol.

Specializes in Registry, all over the place.
I am a new grad in California in a hospital. med surg and make 14.95

most hospitals will not hire you around here as a new grad

What part of California, are you in a rural area?

I am reading the responses to the questions on wages around the country. I live in New Jersey near the Atlantic City area. I work Agency in LTC facilities with salaries ranging anywhere from 24-29 an hour depending on shifts. Not many of the hospitals hire LPN's anymore. The only way you are going to make any money is working in a nursing home. The patient load is herendous. Anywhere up to 35 patients. On an average I would say most facilities at any given time have at least 40% of the staff being agency nurses. Maybe one RN in the building working on the floor. The rest are cooped up in their offices or in supervisory positions that aren't really patient related. We do the admissions, the meds, the treatments, call the doctors, charting and supervise all the ancillary staff. I have been doing this for 16 years, starting out at around 7.75. RN's in hospitals would refuse to take the assignments that we deal with on a daily basis. We should be making more money than we do, but the bottom line is the only way you are going to make the big bucks is if you get the R next to the N.

I work in the Cincinnati area currently in LTC at the rate of $21.50 with the possibility of a rate increase in 90 days. I was working in Home Health at the rate of $22 for shift work and $35 for a 30 min. max. home visit, but I was so sick of the feast or famin of home health. You're either working 7 days a week or not at all for weeks on end. So I've had my fill of Home Health. I did it for 7 yrs and I'm done now, I'm on to greener pastures. So how do I change my name on here now? or am I stuck with the one I have? ;)

I'm an LVN in an assisted living facility and am the only nurse, I make $24.00/hr here, and while working before that just as a Phlebotomist I was making $17, + .75 for PM diff, oh this is for Sacramento, CA.:nurse:

Yeah, HI! I live in NorCal and the pay here is much better then in most places. I currently make $24/hr as a brand new LVN. Hope that helps! :)

Specializes in Rehab, Dementia, Geriatrics.

LPN's in Saskatchewan Canada, are one of the highest paid in Canada, and the cost of living is cheap in this province. We just signed a new agreement and starting wage for LPN's in Saskatchewan will be around $23 CND an hour.

hi there i am in orlando too . i was told the hospitals here start at about 12.00 did I miss something somewhere??????

I'm planning on moving to Orlando this year. Is the pay that bad??

Tennessee here, surburb of Knoxville.. LPN for 16 plus years and they tell me I top out at my current $18.00 per hour in LTC as a charge nurse. Work 12 hour shift.. 7p to 7a, NO shift diff, NO weekend diff.

Housing in this area can be as much as $1200 per month for a small rental house or apartment.

I've also worked in the Pensacola, Florida are in LTC, comparable wages and moderate housing prices there.

I'm in MA and I'm moving to Orlando this year. What kind of jobs do agencies offer?

Hi-from Lafayette,louisiana

Ltc-$13-$16 Ltac And Psyc.hosp-$18-$21

Hosp $9-$13-1exception A New Facility$22-$25

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