how much do you make an hour/year?

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I know its personal but I am just curious, of course you don't have to answer it but for those of you who don't mind, answer please, thanks!

CNA/RN/LPN/PA/APN/fulltime/parttime/casual whatever your profession is, just state it and share :)

Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.
CNA in rural Missouri. I make 7.65 an hour. I'm in nursing school though, so I cant complain. Good times. Can I come live with some of you making $40 an hour? Just pay me 9. I'll clean, do laundry, making dinner and let you vent about your day.

Heck, I'll pay you an even ten for you to watch me throw darts at my nursing administrator's likeness on the wall...:yeah:

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Tech..$10.13/hr + diff. Not thrilled with it, but love the people I work with. Not to mention, I am headed to nursing school so it won't be like this forever. :yeah:

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I think CNAs in my Pittsburgh suburb LTC make about $10 or 11ish per hr...they are union and get raises too

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Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.
Tech..$10.13/hr + diff. Not thrilled with it, but love the people I work with. Not to mention, I am headed to nursing school so it won't be like this forever. :yeah:

NOTHING beats loving who you work with...if I made a few dollars less, but sincerely looked forward to coming to see my collagues every day, it would be well worth my while!!:up:

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Specializes in CNA, Surgical, Pediatrics, SDS, ER.

I make $20.91 days 21.71 nocs--this is after being a nurse for 2 1/2 yrs. It's pretty good pay for the area I lived in. As mentioned before location has a lot to do w/ how much you make. I am just very thankful that I have a job right now.

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Specializes in M/S, Travel Nursing, Pulmonary.

As a travel nurse, my wage changes every 13 weeks. I'm going to do traveling until we are comfortable buying a home. Once we are in a home, I plan on getting a job for wanting the job, not its pay.

I'm a little surprised at how many people say they do overtime as much as they do. Wow. Thumbs up to you for being able to. Me, I find nursing isnt a good field for OT. You get tired, your work slips that little bit that you may not notice, but the patients do. As a traveler, it is expected I do OT when asked. I can say no, but if I do, its a gaurantee my review will be very poor. I cant wait to be staff and be able to stick to 40 hrs a week.

Once my wife an I are in a home, I'll pick a place to work and a specialty based on being interested in the work. I'll be going for daylight hours (never again doing nights once I'm not traveling), and I'll want a nice benefit package. The hourly wage matters, but its not everything.

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Specializes in O.R., ED, M/S.

High wages are all good but the varibles that come with it can be deceiving. Location, location, location! Those that work in parts of the country where wages are low can expect some costs to be lower, those making a lot of money will not be there. If you work on the West coast living costs are going to be reflected in how much you make per hour. Higher cost of living=higher wages. I currently, after 31 years, make $49.38 per hour and will gross out at $173,286. This sounds high, a lot of taxes taken out, but this is working a lot of OT and DoubleTime in the OR. I am in a specialty that allows quite a bit of OT if you are willing, I am. I am a staff nurse not any management person so I am not on any salary restriction. Remember, makinh a high wage doesn't always mean light work!

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I make 22.50 an hour, I am an RN with a BSN and 2 years experience. My facility pays less than others in the area. However, I enjoy my job and don't mind going to work, and my coworkers are wonderful. We are respected by the docs and NNPs and we do good work. We are a referral hospital and some of the cases we get in make me go hmmm. I am proud to be a part of my organization.

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this may have already been posted as i didnt read the entire thread---but it doesnt really matter what any one posts because unless you live in that area of the poster it doesnt matter.

i make 27.5 an hour --yet hosp in your area may pay 22.00 an hour--are you going to pack up/buy a house and move here?? prob not.

some will say they make 50.00 an hour and we will ohh and ahh at that figure---yet how much is thier house payment? how much are they paying for a gallon of milk? do they have a big yard with lots of trees or are they haveing to live in an apt?

nursing is not, has never been a job where you "can get rich" but you can live comfortably. i can live comfortably just off my 27.75 an hour as the ones who make 19.50---prob just as comfortable as the ones who make 38.5. it depends on the location-cost of living-etc etc etc

^^ i see this comment on this board quite a bit and imo it's all relative. it depends on what you define as rich. if you need 7+ figures/year from your paychecks alone to feel rich then maybe no you can't get rich from nursing. but many experienced nurses make 6 figures/year or close to it - which is substantially more than i make now outside of healthcare with many years of experience. so again i guess it's all in what you call rich.

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I'm a CNA and I make 10.50 an hour. Indiana pay is generally pretty low.

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I make 27.50 an hour. ICU RN for three years.....

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Specializes in ICU.

Originally Posted by easttexasnurse31

RN Full Time in Long Term Acute Care ICU $31/hr + $3 ICU differential = $34/hr

weekends add $2 for weekend differential.

Plus 8 hrs PTO every two weeks, insurance, education reimbursement and other benefits.

Houston, Texas

sounds like heaven :)

It's not really. I feel better now than I did earlier today, so I can laugh it off, lol. But if you'll read my recent post "bad day", you'll realize why I think this pay really isn't worth it!!

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