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

Alexa1022 said:

I am often confused by people who say making 100k as a nurse is near impossible. I make 94k a year as a new RN with less than one year hospital experience and 2 years LPN subacute experience, and easily hit over 100k with overtime. I live in NJ. 

It all depends on if you know the nursing market well and negotiate and advocate for a good salary for yourself.

Remember this is a business. The job of HR, recruiters and hiring managers are to get an employee for as low of a cost as possible.

It is not their job to ensure that you receive a good salary and good benefits. On the contrary their job is the exact opposite of that. Getting a good salary and benefits package is your job and if you don't do that job well you'll get stuck with low pay, poor benefits and hard work.

More nurses need to understand this ideology!

Alexa1022 said:

I am often confused by people who say making 100k as a nurse is near impossible. I make 94k a year as a new RN with less than one year hospital experience and 2 years LPN subacute experience, and easily hit over 100k with overtime. I live in NJ. 

You have to average the salaries over the cost of living. $94k in NJ where the overall cost of living index is 112.4. $94k when adjusted for the cost of living is about on par with what new grads making in my market back around 2010, again adjusted for cost of living. 

 

Specializes in Case management, hospice.

Inpatient case management in Massachusetts is 100k plus, same for utilization review. 

BabySweetpea said:

Inpatient case management in Massachusetts is 100k plus, same for utilization review. 

With a cost of living index of 127.5 that would mean a salary of $100k is about the same as making $70k in most of the rest of the country, a salary typically lower than what most new graduates make.

Specializes in RN-BC Cardiac Vascular Nursing.

I make well over 100k part time,  hourly pay 86$. Work in expensive state but live in inexpensive part of the state near (Boston hospital but live on NH border). Was bedside now outpatient fully remote.  

Shocked at how poorly RNs get paid in many areas of the US

Specializes in Research.
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please tell me your specialty, experience , salary, and salary with diff and ot. oh, and where you r in the USA

It has been almost ten years since I started my career as a nurse.

A year ago I started a doing nursing research  (I have a PhD in nursing) in a MCOL area. My salary is $180k (40/hrs weeks Mon-Fri) and has quite good benefits. Basically I write grants to try and secure funding for research that I want to do and then use that funding in our hospital to perform said research. It also involves publishing articles in academic journals, helping my colleagues with their own projects, etc.

Prior to spending several years in my PhD program, I had been a bedside nurse and was making about $70k (I think nowadays someone would be making about $80k in that same role).

So my research role is quite the step up not just in pay but also work-life balance (no weekends, no nights, all holidays off, etc).

 

Specializes in Peri-op.

I m in Georgia making 90k as OR nurse after 2 years

aniretake said:

I m in Georgia making 90k as OR nurse after 2 years

That's not bad at all especially if you really like you job then it's a great salary.

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