LPN/LVN rate of pay in your area.

Mandylpn · May 15, 2005

I am a new grad, hired at a LTC facility, hired at $15.50/hr with pm shift differential. I live in a town of about 14,000. My friends tell me that in the larger :yeah: Mpls/St. Paul area the wages are a dollar or two more to start. I like working close to home.

infullbloom1 · May 18, 2005

I will start at $15 an hour(plus free health insurance) once I graduate in June. Plus, they pay for IV certification. LTC pays more but it wasn't an area I am interested in.

TPalone · May 18, 2005

LTC is not an area I really enjoy,but at leaast now I'm a nurse. AS an aide I did like some aspects,but when I worked in the ICU that is where I wanted to stay,

I'm going for my RN and then I will work in the hospital.As an LPN at least here you are not allowed to do much and some aspects you are a glorified aide, in the hospital.

So that why I chose LTC at 3-11 I will take charge it will give me management responsibilities I can carry out.

szccdw · May 19, 2005

Can we hear from some LPN/LVN's from the Houston area

Darlene K. · May 20, 2005

I live in Tampa FL - work in a teaching hospital (level 1 trauma center) my base rate is $17 / hour with excellent benefits. Plenty of over time and double time (for critical staffing needs) if you want it.

land64shark · May 21, 2005

I live in Tampa FL - work in a teaching hospital (level 1 trauma center) my base rate is $17 / hour with excellent benefits. Plenty of over time and double time (for critical staffing needs) if you want it.

How much experience do you have, if you don't mind me asking? What area of the hospital do you work? Thanks.

TWnursingstudent · May 21, 2005

Hello

I am from Michigan and though I am not a nursing student quite yet I do know that 2 people who worked with me in the LTC Facility that I am currently at graduated from their LPN program and went to a county facility starting out at $19.00 per hour. Thats not too bad for a new graduate LPN.

Theresa

P>S> Although Michigan is now getting more expensive to live in !!!!!!!

Darlene K. · May 21, 2005

How much experience do you have, if you don't mind me asking? What area of the hospital do you work? Thanks.

I work in the pedi and adult ER. I have been an LPN since 1994.

land64shark · May 21, 2005

I work in the pedi and adult ER. I have been an LPN since 1994.

Thanks Darlene.

I'm starting LPN school in the fall and live in Clearwater. I really don't think I'm going to want to do LTC, so any info on other options in the Tampa Bay area is useful.

nurseangela407 · May 21, 2005

I live in Orlando. In the hospital on a unit, I make $18.00 with bennies. With the agency, I make $25.00/hr.

LydiaNN · May 21, 2005

:angryfire LPNs make $10.95 in oklahoma. :angryfire

Yikes. How in heaven's name do they find anyone willing to do it?

ksolotis · May 22, 2005

I am an SVN in California and we are expecting to make $27 at least when we graduate. Some of the students who impressed the managers and nurses at the clinical site were offered jobs before even taking the boards and are now working 4 days a week, 12 hours per day. Calculated that somewhere in the ballpark of 70,000 a year. Here in Kalifonia, standard of living is quite expensive, but there are sattelite cities surrounding San Francisco, Oakland, San jose, etc that one may wish to live in. I live in the tri valley, it usually takes about 30 to 45 minutes to get to the hospitals that pay this wage. :rolleyes: Housing is on the rise but one may still buy a 4,5,6 bedroom house for 500,000. And the weather is really nice out this way, too.

Nurse Kimmy

"Work like you don't need the money,

Love like you've never been hurt,

Sing like no one can hear you,

And dance like no one is watching."

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?