Making 100k salary/ income as a nurse?

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I am interested in what specialties are making 100k. I have 3 daughters in nursing school and can advise them on a lot, but not necessarily give them a big pic of the financial opportunities from across the nation. I am a 25 year RN and have a 65k salary, but double it most years with ot. not much fun working 68-72 hour weeks though. please tell me your specialty, experience , salary, and salary with diff and ot. oh, and where you r in the USA thank you all and hope your practice is professionally and financially rewarding

Specializes in ICU.
I live in the southeast. My base pay is 85k. With overtime I can make around 95k. I work 7am-5pm in an outpatient clinic that's affiliated with a major hospital. No weekends or nights, off on holidays. When I started as a RN seven years ago I made 52k. I job-hopped to get big pay increases. Cost of living is relatively low in my area. I only have an ASN.

You know any Kaiser employees in that area?

Specializes in ICU.
I'm also a step down/progressive nurse 4 years experience, really looking into travel nursing, hopefully to start contracts by May! yay! Any tips for a progressive travel nurse? Specific agencies you like working with or locations/hospitals that rocked??

Get another specialty, not worth it as a stepdown RN. Travelers are usually trying to make money. L&D, OR and CVICU are the hot specialties.

Work in the "industry" side of the house for a manufacturer,

9-5 kind of job, no holidays. Highly recommend. Pharma and med manufacturers hire tons of nurses, just no one thinks to look at them.

What state are you located in this is excellent information? Thanks for sharing!

Specializes in OB, Women’s health, Educator, Leadership.
Making 85k/yr 2nd yr as a nurse. NJ. If I did overtime probably could reach 100k. I work in the ER. Don't want to do overtime. To stressed and starting to feel burnt out.

Thinking of taking pay cut 65k/yr for clinic desk job. Closer to the house better hrs in the day.

It isn't always worth the money.

What state are you located in this is excellent information? Thanks for sharing!

I live in a pretty low COL state.

There are manufacturers and pharma companies all over the United States. Bard Access is out of Salt Lake along with Catheter Connections, EcoLab is out of St Paul, Curos used to be out of San Diego.

Working for a manufacturer is far more lucrative but they do hire per-diem educators if you want to get your "feet wet" in industry.

You do not need an MBA nor do you necessarily have to relocate. Generally if they do want you to relocate they pay for packers, movers, and give you money to cover the cost of selling and buying a home (realtor's feed etc).

The best part about industry is that you get to have a real say in healthcare, globally.

Where can I learn more about this and how to enter this path? New grad with bsn

Here is an interesting article on how a millenial's salary really shakes out when you adjust it for cost of living. Some of the high salary cities end up with an adjusted salary which is actually below average.

JLL Research: Dallas Is a "Money Magnet' for Millennials" D Magazine

I live in a pretty low COL state.

There are manufacturers and pharma companies all over the United States. Bard Access is out of Salt Lake along with Catheter Connections, EcoLab is out of St Paul, Curos used to be out of San Diego.

Working for a manufacturer is far more lucrative but they do hire per-diem educators if you want to get your "feet wet" in industry.

You do not need an MBA nor do you necessarily have to relocate. Generally if they do want you to relocate they pay for packers, movers, and give you money to cover the cost of selling and buying a home (realtor's feed etc).

The best part about industry is that you get to have a real say in healthcare, globally.

You have provided a wealth of information that I had no knowledge of and gives individuals options of utilizing our skills in a different manner than traditionally going into a hospital, so thanks. This isn't of particular interest to me because my ultimate goal is to be a nurse anesthetist after a couple years in ICU; prayerfully.

Depends on where you live. I'm in Philadelphia, and that's an easy number to hit with a weekend night gig. We have some of the best hospitals in the country, and the Penn system PAYS.

Im a traveler (I stay local, get some benefits but no sick/vacation) and far surpass 100k (I hit 100k in October) in my year. I work 48 scheduled hours. But, because I'm a loon I also have a per diem that I throw in as well. Last year with both jobs I made close to 140k without my military pension. But some weeks I worked 70 hours. I have 3.5 years in, and a year traveling.

In terms of cities, Philadelphia is low cost. My mortgage is $1,000 and I have a 2500sq ft home with a yard and a driveway. The only thing is the income tax is 5% for my city whereas most are 1%.

I dont see myself stopping travel nursing anytime soon, I'll go as long as I can hang. When I can't keep the hours, I'll find a company that does 36-which is usually 1200-1500/week take home.

Oh, I'm ICU but travel doing med surg/tele/ICU depending on what's around when I complete an assignment. Right now I'm doing tele and take home $2400/week.

All the facilities I've worked at have a standardized scale based on years of experience for starting pay for staff RNs regardless of unit.

Read that over and over again the next time somebody tells you that ICU, OR, ER, or some other staff nurse position pays better than another.

I've only seen the difference in travel pay.

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