LPN/LVN salary for 2013/2014

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I would like to hear from fresh LPN/LVN about starting salaries. Also I would like to know where was your first job? And how do you like being a LPN? Do you think you made the right career choice? Since, I will be a fresh LPN/LVN soon. I would like to hear everyone's input. Let's start with Cincinnati Ohio......

What part of CA?

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What part of CA?

Im from the Bay Area. Specifically, South Bay.

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I'm from SoCal. I suggest looking into psych hospitals or behavioral health rehabs

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Specializes in LTC.
Im from the Bay Area. Specifically, South Bay.

I'm from further north in California, and not a nurse yet, but I know several of the LVN's who just graduated in the class before me. Most were offered between $23-27 per hour to start. The ones who took clinic jobs got less, around $20 I think. The facility I'm at as a CNA offered to pay tuition for me with a contract that locked me into them for 2 years at $25 upon passing the NCLEX-PN. I didn't take the contract.

ETA: I live rural. California nursing jobs still exist in the BFE. Our local hospital still employs LVN'S in Med Surg and the ER. If you can't find a job in the bay area, I recommend looking in rural communities.

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I live in rural western NC and just graduated from LPN school. I had an offer at a LTC starting at $15.37. I chose to take a position at a private practice for $12.89 in order to have a schedule that works better for my children right now. I would prefer more money but plan to finish my RN and have better opportunities later on.

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I have been working at a hospital in arkanas for 2 years now, it was my very first job straight out of school, i took my boards in jan and started working in feb. I love the hosptial atomsphere but the pay here is not great i started at 12.11/hr i do get a 1.25 night diff, i work 12 hour shifts at night 7p-7a. I do enjoy being a nurse, although sometimes its hard being a lpn because in my case i get the entire workload and am expected to do everything. dont get me wrong im a hard worker and love doing what i do, but when u are in a room busy and the other rn on floor comes and gets you and says the person in the other room needs pain medication, and then goes and sits down it gets kinda old.

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AB, working for the province will get you 25.93 starting. Private agencies tend to pay less, I've heard 22/hr for a contract at a LTC facility.

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Knoxville TN, Assisted living, $18.00 per hour

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Specializes in Peds(PICU, NICU float), PDN, ICU.

$17 as a new grad almost 10 years ago. 23/hr now. NC. PDN. Plus mileage if I have to drive really far. $1/hr more on weekends. No benefits or extras except pto.

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Specializes in Pediatric Private Duty; Camp Nursing.

Eastern PA - Started in LTC in 2009 for $18/hr, went to pediatric PDN a year later for $22/hr no benefits but 1 wk PTO and overtime available. After 3 1/2 years, I got a dollar raise. The real $ is in the OT!! ;D

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I live in BC canada and I started at 24.75 at the hospital in 2011. I was miserable there to be honest and dreaded going to work every day. It didn't help that you start off as a casual and get called to come in after a shift has started and the 12 hour shifts were not for me. I always felt like I had no idea what was going on and the nurses were mean! I moved to a LTC facility which was a huge improvement from the hospital. I worked there for 2 years but my facility was private and had a lot of shady management.

I recently (3 months ago) left that job and started at an assisted living complex as their only LPN. Overall I'd say I'm in more of an administrative/supervisory/teaching role but I actually like coming to work now. I still get to utilize my clinical skills but am not just pushing pills all day. I now make $25 an hour; BC doesn't have a lot of fluctuation in the LPN pay. After my previous two jobs I had decided that nursing was not for me, but with this new job my feelings have changed. The important thing to learn is that you have to find out what is the best fit for you and to try a bunch of different venues before you give up. Good luck!

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I just graduated a week ago and was hired yesterday in LTC. I am in South West PA very small towns and about 2 hours from a big city (literally farm and Amish country) I start out 14.80/hr(that is with shift differential as I chose 11-7) It is union after 90 days. With yearly raises. Here its LTC or Dr offices and sometimes the jail for LPN's. Average pay is 12-17/hr for these and home health agency that hire LPN's is 21/hr but you have to take out your own taxes with them which is why the pay seems higher.

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