Name hospital and salary--everywhere

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Hi, everyone seemed to be enjoying the name your hospital and salary thread from NY and I noticed others would like to participate and know about other states. So everyone join in. Name your hospital, starting rate, and how much experience you have and your specialty. :Melody:

I just graduated from an RN program in Seattle. :w00t: Looking would like to move to palm desert, CA :angryfire I was wondering if anyone from the area knows how much new grads are making and if anyone has any thoughts about the medical hospitals in the area.

I have done my research for Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia if anyone is interested...

New grads $23.84 plus shift differential evening 2.75 nights 3.75-4.00 and weekend the same. top wages at swedish medical center seattle are approximately $44.00.

I need to see the sunshine!:icon_roll

Thank you everyone for great threads and being honest about your wages, I'm glad i found this site to compare wages around the county it will help me much as I relocate.

sandra :paw:

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I am all for nipping this hourly wage/vocational mentality and asking for a decent yearly salary and NOT discussing *serious details* (but, am for sharing the ranges so that others can get on board.)

Heck, hospitals discuss it amongst themselves, (current litigation with hospitals from Chicago, California and someplace else-came across it while searching for average nursing salaries and saw salary fixing and hospitals), that is how the hold the ceiling on us...

I am also all for busting that hourly mindset...we are not working at a factory, Nursing is a profession.

Just my thoughts.

Gen

The problem with a salary is that many nurses work overtime, and if they were classified as professionals the hospitals would try to use that to classify them as "exempt". So, you'd have a warm feeling of being a "salaried professional" but then get to work as much as they could force you to work, for free.

At the LTC homes where my GF used to be a manager, they attempted to force the nurse managers (salaried) to work over on the floor, EVERY DAY. Lyn was smart enough to insist on being hourly, and they put a lot less pressure on her, because they would have had to pay her.

A $60-70k salary for a 40-hour week is pretty good. But if they can force you to work 60-70 hours for the same money, not so good.

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Exactly. Some years ago, a former manager with a ton of experience left her position and returned to the bedside as an hourly employee because she said with the number of hours she put in on a salary calculated to less per hour than new grad (not yet licensed) PNs were making.

As a traveler, my pay has ranged from $25 to $35 per hour. My company does not pay sick time or vacation. No work, no pay.

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Im a student living in So Cal (California), and we were considering moving back to my home state of Michigan after I get my degree in nursing. Does anyone know the average salary for an RN in Michigan? Judging by what Ive seen here so far, maybe well stay here and move north. Housing is extremely expensive here. In the San Fernando valley which is LA county a

small house can cost any where from $500,000 - $700,000 easy.:idea:

RN's in Michigan seem to make somewhere in the Mid-20s to start, plus differentials, much like most other places. So probably 50-70k with weekends, overtime, etc.

You could buy a palace in the Detroit Metro area for $700k right now, the way the housing market is now, and in more rural parts of the state you could probably have your own walled compound for that kind of cash.

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Wow!!! After reading a few of these postings, it is now loud and clear why Montana cannot recruit and retain good, experienced nurses!!! I am an LPN with 14 years of experience in ER, Med/Surg and Geriatrics and am only making a little over $16 an hour!!! Course, they say that "what ya lack in pay, ya make up for just getting the privilege of living where ya do"...yeah, but the pretty scenery does not pay the bills and put food on the table!!

:o :o :o :o :o

Which is one of many reasons I'm looking at being a CRNA. There's a posting on gaswork.com right now, rural Montana, 25 hour work week with 5 weeks paid vacation, signing bonus, $170-200k per year.

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Hehe.I have a 7 years of experience and a payment $6/hr.Its great to work in Croatia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:bluecry1:

How much do things cost there? Like, how much would the average person spend on rent/food/etc?

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This seems to be a unique phenomena, In my opinion, that nurses are so willing to publicly proclaim their earning potential. Of course it is normal to wonder, but less than professional to discuss publicly

Horse puckey.

Why do you think management does not want people to discuss their salary? It's because there is such a wide range of pay for people doing the same job. Hospitals do often have a pay scale for certain jobs, so the variation may be less in some places, but it's there. Often this really creeps up on people with a lot of seniority, who work somewhere ten or more years only to find that the people they are training make as much as , or more than, they do.

When I was a computer guy I worked for a large national company, and on my team here was the pay that three of us had, which we discovered one day in casual conversation:

Company Employee (another guy named Jim) $32k year

Agency Contractor (me) $52k year

Independent Contractor (Sean) $80k year

Same job, same schedule, same skill set. 50k per year difference. And the high guy made almost triple what the low guy made.

How do you think companies get away with that? They keep the applicants uninformed, or they hire from within and bring people up from low-paying jobs and their pay never catches up. When they have to hire from outside or go to an agency (this was during the tech boom and techies were hard to come by), they had to pay more, but even then the agencies got a big cut.

Knowledge is power. If you want to keep all the tools in the hands of the management, then don't read the discussion. But if I'm going to battle, I prefer to go armed (in this case, with information).

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Horse puckey.

Why do you think management does not want people to discuss their salary? It's because there is such a wide range of pay for people doing the same job. Hospitals do often have a pay scale for certain jobs, so the variation may be less in some places, but it's there. Often this really creeps up on people with a lot of seniority, who work somewhere ten or more years only to find that the people they are training make as much as , or more than, they do.

When I was a computer guy I worked for a large national company, and on my team here was the pay that three of us had, which we discovered one day in casual conversation:

Company Employee (another guy named Jim) $32k year

Agency Contractor (me) $52k year

Independent Contractor (Sean) $80k year

Same job, same schedule, same skill set. 50k per year difference. And the high guy made almost triple what the low guy made.

How do you think companies get away with that? They keep the applicants uninformed, or they hire from within and bring people up from low-paying jobs and their pay never catches up. When they have to hire from outside or go to an agency (this was during the tech boom and techies were hard to come by), they had to pay more, but even then the agencies got a big cut.

Knowledge is power. If you want to keep all the tools in the hands of the management, then don't read the discussion. But if I'm going to battle, I prefer to go armed (in this case, with information).

Why did you quit computer for nursing? Are you happier or do you have any regrets?

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

OMG...please don't laugh or have pity.

Small town hospital in south Alabama; starting rate of 17.50 :scrying:

I work med-surg, and I float pretty routinely to ICU. Trying to make that home.

I have about a years experience.

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Specializes in Med-Surg.
Exactly. Some years ago, a former manager with a ton of experience left her position and returned to the bedside as an hourly employee because she said with the number of hours she put in on a salary calculated to less per hour than new grad (not yet licensed) PNs were making.

As a traveler, my pay has ranged from $25 to $35 per hour. My company does not pay sick time or vacation. No work, no pay.

Our manager just did that about six months ago. Went to night shift.

My husband is salaried manager of his department, and say very often he wished he had pushed for hourly. Lately he's been at work 60+ hours since a PT had to live.

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Why did you quit computer for nursing? Are you happier or do you have any regrets?

I didn't exactly quit computers, they kind of quit me.

I got laid off right before 9/11 when the tech bubble popped. I lucked into a good-paying job teaching computers in a technical school and kept that until the end of 2006, but the technical job market in Michigan is awful now. There are so many fewer jobs, and they pay a lot less than they did before.

My experience was in supporting the domestic car industry, which is slashing jobs and capacity as fast as it can. No going back there.

I'm not a nurse currently. I'm an EMT and in a Paramedic program, then will do the Excelsior bridge to RN and either do PA or CRNA (still doing a bunch of shadowing to see which one I like best, but some kind of midlevel practice is where I want to end up.

I'm at the beginning of my medical career, but I like it very much so far.

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Specializes in subacute/ltc.

LPN

subacute/ltc

3 years experience

$26/hr per diem

and never lacking for work.....the phone rings constantly

makes me really glad I'm not the scheduler...

now thats a thankless job

Tres

who just took the month of January off.....because I can......

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