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I am interested in what people out there are making per hour as an LPN and also what state you work in. What you started out at after graduation vs. now with some experience would be great too. Thanks a lot for sharing!

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Irene

Specializes in brain injury,.

I have been a nurse for 11 years and I make $20 and hour.I live in NH

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Specializes in LTC.

Whew!! I just graduated and started working and am making over 18.00 hr in LTC.

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I have been an lpn for about 10 yrs. I worked in Tx. and after working in the hosp. for 5 yrs,taking PALS and ACLS I left to do travel nursing I make about 20-25 an hr and all my housing is paid.It is hard to find assignments at times but I have managed. It sure beats 16 an hr.

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I live in the Chicago area and have been an LPN for Yikes! 28 years. I am well paid at over $25/hr and only work 4 days a week - no weekends or holidays in a specialty office setting.

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I am an LPN in Arkansas. The biggest hospital in this area I used to work with on a med/surg floor started me out at 11.50/hour then after 2 1/2 years I was making 12.50/ hour. Those are dayshift rates. I went to work with Healthsouth Rehab hosptial (which has a big corporta base in Alabama) and as a nurse liaison (which is evaluating pts for rehab and some marketing) and I make $18/hour. Of course all the liaisons make the same now matter if they are R orLPN, or just a marketer with no nursing background. So it was a huge raise for me. An RN with years of experience may see it as a pay cut. However, I hear one of the small hospitals around here starts their med/surg LPN's out at 15.80/hour.

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I live in the Chicago area and have been an LPN for Yikes! 28 years. I am well paid at over $25/hr and only work 4 days a week - no weekends or holidays in a specialty office setting.

You got it good

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Yep. Kinda fell right into the job. I love it, but, I have a 25 mile commute daily and my kids (ages 8, 12 and 14) don't see me as much as the did when I worked 3 12's. My home life gets away from me more than I like to admit. So I have applied for a job in my town with a couple nephrologists I know well. They are opening a new dialysis clinic in a month or two and they talk like they want to hire me. Can make the same hourly rate of pay working only 3 10's and some call at times. I will be 5 mins from home, and be home by 3p, can keep the laundry under control (LOL) and plan to continue my RN defree at home. Gotta wait and see how it all pans out.

Nice to hear from someone in the windy city. My husband is from the burbs up there. I have been here all my life.

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Yes, I do feel very fortunate and lucky. It certainly helps to live around a large metropolitan area where the scale is higher though. I am in a 20 doctor orthopaedic practice and the turnover is virtually non-existent. There are a few LPN's but mostly RN's. I think I am probably paid very close to what some of our RN's are paid since I have been at it for so long. The only downside of the job is the 80 miles daily I drive to and from the office. I can't even complain about that though, since I only do it 4 days a week. I consider myself lucky.

I was thinking how different things are since I began on an ortho floor in a large hospital in 1978 when I graduated. I began at $5.65 per hour and I think that was with a shift differential.

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Hi all!

This is my first post. I am just at the beginning stages of LPN school. Right now I am actually in my pre-req course-CNA. I felt that I had to post something, b/c I am totally shocked at what you guys are telling me that LPN's are making. Doesn't seem worth the schooling! 8-10, even 15 per hr. I live in southern Michigan and am attending school in Ohio. From what I have heard it's no surprise that nurses don't make crap in Family practices, but in hospitals in Michigan usually hire in around 17 per hour. One girl in my class is from around detroit area and said that lpn's are making 60 per visit for HHC. I don't know too much about Ohio wages, but I was hoping to make good money to pay off my loan when I get out!! I hope I can!! I am making 10/hr now as an unoffical MA!

Much luck to you all!

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I got an interview at a SNF unit and there starting me at $21.00 as a knew grad

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I transitioned to LPN at the hospital where I have worked for almost 2yrs, and make $11.94, base pay is $10.84. I was hired for CNA and had to switch departments from med/surg to acute physical rehab, where I was a Unit Sec, when I started the nursing program. When I passed boards in January and transitioned into the LPN position, I received 6 days orientation, to say the least I was nervous, but with the help of the nurses that I work with, I have done fine. I am hoping for a raise in August when my yearly eval is due!

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I'm going to school to get my BSN but I just want to say that I think LPN's are completely underpaid in our area. In the hospital that I intern at, you cannot tell the LPN's from the RN's. They are a very valuable and pretty much equal part of the team in terms of practice. The only thing they can't do is admission assessment and IV push. I think they are getting better paid then some of the wages I see on this thread but I still feel like they get shorted. :( I made more as a travel agent than many of the wages listed here and I didn't have to be licensed or even go to school for that.

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