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 NICU, ER, OR.

I should add , I'm on the East coast, and work @ an Ivy League affiliated level 1 Trauma Center...

RNOTODAY said:
I do. Operating Room, my Hospital pays a higher rate for the OR, plus with call... all the OT I care to pick up-- well , well over 100k

interested???

Call?

OT?

East Coast and high COL/away from family/support system?

Nope!

Young and single, I might consider it.

If income is the motivator nursing might not be the right choice. i'm not trying to be snarky or rude but nursing is not a high earning profession. Where I live its difficult to get into nursing school. Those who enter generally has the grades to get into more high earning professions if they wanted to. As PA's or NP's they can get a pretty high income though.

Specializes in Emergency, Critical Care, Pre-Hospital,.

Yup, I didn't, knowingly, take a vow of poverty. This is a business proposition. I provide you with a service and you pay me a acceptable wage. If either of us fail that contract, we are free to move on, no excommunication needed.

Specializes in ICU.
I do. Operating Room, my Hospital pays a higher rate for the OR, plus with call... all the OT I care to pick up-- well , well over 100k

interested???

Maye but, I have a feeling you are referring to Boston area.

AliNajaCat said:
I think I said it before (not going back to read the whole 147 posts...) Money isn't everything. I've taken jobs that pay less but that give me maximal work/life balance. The cliche is that nobody ever lay on her deathbed and said she wished she'd spent more time at work. I sure won't.

This just made me laugh out loud, because I actually have said those exact words. But not on my death bed. More like after getting home and dealing with WW3 between the kids.

Specializes in NICU, ER, OR.

Operating room... lots of OT, and on call

What area of NJ?

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.

Specializes in Hospice.
I dont believe we need to be called like a vocation, but I've never seen a strictly money driven nurse succeed in the field. The crap we tolerate is tolerated because we really want to be nurses. I believe we should all make great money for what we do. But if you're driven by dollars? You won't be able to tolerate what we tolerate.

Maybe it's because our salaries haven't kept up with inflation and we are more desperate than ever to make ends meet. Truthfully my "calling" is to be rich and travel the world, since that's not in the cards just yet, being a nurse pays the bills (barely).

MN OR RN: 40ish an hour at 1.0 I clear 87 as a base. Add call and OT and I am hoping to get to 110 this year.

Specializes in Peds, GI, Home Health, Risk Mgmt.
On 1/18/2017 at 9:26 AM, lasvegasnurs said:

In it for the money? Quit nursing and do law school. Otherwise work in an area they like and enjoy going to work and it will be a good salary to live on anywhere. More schooling (graduate) opens higher paying opportunities if they want to specialize in an area.

Oh please NO! (Quit nursing and do law school). That is NOT the road to riches (and I would know, having done that). There are too many attorneys in the US competing for too few jobs, compared to the ever expanding need for more nurses.

But specialties where you can make $100K plus--look at Medical Informatics. In the hospital, it's working with the clinicians and IT staffs to make the best use of the electronic medical record software. Beyond the hospital, it's working with the software vendors and support companies. I've worked in this area for 15 years and love it--I'm never bored, I get great benefits and salary, and I'm not stressed at work.

And if you want to see info on salaries, go to Glassdoor. com (https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/index.htm) and do a search for the location and job title to start (you can add # of years of experience, size of employer).

18 hours ago, hollyvk said:

Oh please NO! (Quit nursing and do law school). That is NOT the road to riches (and I would know, having done that). There are too many attorneys in the US competing for too few jobs, compared to the ever expanding need for more nurses.

But specialties where you can make $100K plus--look at Medical Informatics. In the hospital, it's working with the clinicians and IT staffs to make the best use of the electronic medical record software. Beyond the hospital, it's working with the software vendors and support companies. I've worked in this area for 15 years and love it--I'm never bored, I get great benefits and salary, and I'm not stressed at work.

And if you want to see info on salaries, go to Glassdoor. com (https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/index.htm) and do a search for the location and job title to start (you can add # of years of experience, size of employer).

Agreed, I work with many lawyers in my current role and I make more than all of them except for a few higher profile director level individuals lol.

Its about what you do with your education and background.

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