Never share pay rates!!

[Queen33FutureLPN, CNA]

I learned my lesson to never share pay rates.I just started my new job and starting off I get paid 70 cents more than a cna who has been there for almost a year.Why is the pay rates different?She has been a cna longer.Is it because of cost of living and competiveness among hospitals.I would appreciate this if someone could elaborate with me on that.Thank you very much!!!

[Dorali, BSN, LPN, RN]

My guess is that they started paying their new CNAs more in recent weeks/months. They probably won't raise her pay until she says something. I'd be p.o.'d if I found out a new employee was making more than me.

What lesson did you learn? Did something happen?

[CNABESS]

Are you full time w/ benefits? Is the other CNA also ft w/bens.? This makes a difference usually, as does shift diffenetials. In most places a person can be paid more $/hr. if they forego benefits. Perhaps this is the difference. Or, as previously stated, the facility is now starting at a higher wage to get the help in that they need.

[lizbet86]

Yes, you definitely don't ever share your pay rate. Only after I had been in my last job for months did I ever talk about what I was making at the hospital with another brand new tech. That's just a rule of the professional world. The people you work with don't need to know what you make (unless you actually build a close relationship with people- and even then, use your judgement).