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 was hired at small LTC facility and it was $22p/h after orientation plus differentials for evening and weekend shifts, and charge nurse position. I have friends who were hired at facilities that start you at $26p/h plus the differentials. Doctors offices tend to pay around $18p/h.

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Work in Massachusetts...make $25/hr w/full benefits part time at Assisted Living....just graduated and just got this job.....so far so good!

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I was hired at small LTC facility and it was $22p/h after orientation plus differentials for evening and weekend shifts, and charge nurse position. I have friends who were hired at facilities that start you at $26p/h plus the differentials. Doctors offices tend to pay around $18p/h.

Is this in the Tampa Bay Area in Florida?

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I was a south florida lpn for 9 years and was 13 an hour at my very first job, the following year i was making $20 an hour somewhere else. over the years I made an average of $18/hr with more when I went agency. (up to $25/hr), I now live in TN, and have yet to apply for my license here because the top out rate for lpn's here is $15/hr.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! whoever heard of such a thing????? what an insult!!! I have a friend that lives in NYC and he has been an lpn for 12years. he gets $33/hr.!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's so ridiculous!!!

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Been an LPN for over a year now. Starting pay grid for new grads in a teaching hospital is $23/hr, but because of my rotation of evenings and weekends, I make an average of $29-$31/hr. I love evening 8's. :):)

From Alberta, Canada

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I was a south florida lpn for 9 years and was 13 an hour at my very first job, the following year i was making $20 an hour somewhere else. over the years I made an average of $18/hr with more when I went agency. (up to $25/hr), I now live in TN, and have yet to apply for my license here because the top out rate for lpn's here is $15/hr.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! whoever heard of such a thing????? what an insult!!! I have a friend that lives in NYC and he has been an lpn for 12years. he gets $33/hr.!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's so ridiculous!!!

I know a LPN who graduated 2 years ago who works in a psychiatric facility in Nashville, TN that makes $17/hour, but that's the highest I'v heard of so far.

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I work in southeast TX at a CV & Stroke ICU/PCU unit and make 15.95 an hour. I pick up at least two extra shifts a pay period with incentive pays of $100.00 on weekdays and $200.00 on weekends. With differentials and overtime my average take home check every two weeks is about $1,800.00. I don't quabble about my paychecks at all.

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Specializes in Emergency/HomeHealth.

I am also in TN, Home Health pay's more as a new grad I was making $18.50 in a rural area. Does anyone know the average for Hospice LPN?

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Specializes in nurses assistant way back when....

I'm very interested to hear of the STARTING pay rates especially nowadays after the recession (even though we're in a second dip). I live in Savannah and I've heard of LPN's starting at 13 at the hospital fresh out of school. LTC I'm not sure.

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I live in wisconsin and the starting rates are from $18-$20 base then you get shift and weekend diffs depending on where you go and agency ranges from $25-$35

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I live in Delaware. The average is $19-$25 an hour for LTC, $17 for state facilities, less for doctor's office or hospital.

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Specializes in cardiology.

I'm in Winchester, TN. One hospital I worked at as a full-time PRN 15.50 no benefits. One LTC 14 and another 20 for PRN. It seems the pay is close everywhere.

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