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?

Specializes in LTC, Agency, HHC.
Oh, honey...........If you are coming from Miss, you are going to have sticker shock at the housing prices out here. Southern CA and the SF Bay Area are ridiculously overpriced. We're talking a small, 30 year old house in an iffy neighborhood for 500,000. A nice house (2500 sq feet), in a nice neighborhood, will set you back at least 750,000.

Here in the Sacramento area, it is a little more reasonable. You can find a decent house for 400,000. A condo for 350K.........

Nursemelani, you are exactly right, you said the same thing I did.

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

I am a new LVN who earns $18.50 hourly at an upscale nursing home somewhere in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area.

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I work in an ICU/CCU in GA and my base pay is $19.88 plus we get shift and weekend diff. My base pay includes a $2.00 diff for working a specialty unit. Not all hospitals in GA hire LPN's and most do not let them work in their units. I was making the same thing with an agency before coming to this hospital. I am also full time and have benefits.

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I work in Hawaii and started LTC 1 year ago $17.60 and now making 19.01. (as LPN) The cost of living here is very high, and you have many pt's. Although this is one of the top paying facilities!

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Specializes in A little of this, a little of that.....

Way back in the Stone Ages, I started out at $7.50 an hour. Now, the facility I work for pays $17 an hour. I have worked agency, where I got about $25 an hour. It all depends.

"Mac"

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Specializes in Pediatric, Med/Surg, Psych, Hospice.

i will be graduating in 4 months. does anyone have any recent insight on lvn pay rates in fort worth, texas? am interested in anything except ltc...any advice would be greatly appreciated...;)

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:angryfire LPNs make $10.95 in oklahoma. :angryfire

where in OK are you? I used to live there and i still have many many nursing friends there and the WORST i have heard is 15.00 hourly and that is for a home for the developmentally disabled.

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I grew up in Hawaii and like the other post said 19.00hr and a home in a kind of decent neighborhood is hovering around 500.000.00. Lot of crime and drugs in Hawaii, the people have to make money somehow. Would not move back there, only if I hit the lotto! I live in Colorado now and have heard of lpn's making up to 22.00hr in ltc's. The hospitals that do hire lpn's about 14.00 to 17.00 to start, which sucks. But the home prices in Colorado have been going up every year. My hole in the wall 2000 sq ft 4bdrm 3 bth home is going for 300.000 right now. I plan on moving down to dallas though and the pay down there is not bad and u can still get a home out of town for 150.000 with acreage.;)

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I'm a LPN working in Ortho/Surg and my base pay is $10.92:angryfire

I work fri and sat nights so I get an additional $5.00/hr shift diff.

$3.00/hr for being PRN

The hospital I work for is the lowest paying one on the Ms. Gulf Coast! I work there because I only live 5 minutes away. LOL

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San Antonio - Contract agency - $23 - med surg, no benefits, no shifdif, but no cancel with contract. Other agencies quote more - but you get cancelled first -

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Specializes in Almost everywhere.

Been a LPN for 17 years and get $15.70 an hour. That is my flat rate with no differential. :eek:

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Agency LPN's down here make. $18.00-$22.00/hr

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