New Grad Pay!!

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I know the 'Nursing Pay' discussion has had the CRAP beat out of it, but this thread is directed to those NEW GRADS that have just accepted their FIRST nursing job with ONLY SCHOOL-RELATED EXPERIENCE behind them. If you will, please answer the following questions:

1) Degree (i.e. Associates, Bachelors, etc.)

2) Starting Salary or Hourly pay

3) CITY and STATE in which you will be working

I am a career changer and I AM NOT going into nursing for the money, but my hopes are to get some REAL figures from this thread in an attempt to 'GUESS-TI-MATE' just what type of pay I should expect.

Any and all HONEST responses will be GREATLY appreciated!!

Thanks!!

1) Degree- ADN

2) Starting Salary or Hourly pay- $17.64 for all new grads (ADN or BSN), 50 cent raise when boards are passed. $3.50 evening/$6.50 night diff

3) CITY and STATE in which you will be working- Dover, NH

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1) BSN

2) $31.69 base (+$3.66 evening diff, +$5.82 night diff)

3) San Francisco Bay Area, California

The starting pay is the same regardless of the type of degree that you have (AA, BSN, MSN), as long as you have your license.

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Just a word to the wise...avoid discussing your new grad salaries with the regular staff. It can create quite a bit of resentment, as the sharp new grads may be making a bit more $$ than others, new grads and old.

Just heard of a very smart, sweet new grad who came to our unit while I was on sick leave and unwisely told her coworkers she was hired for 25/hr. Now I bet this was with her differentials (still a nice new grad rate in DFW). But she was essentially run off by the people she worked with as a result of her high salary...she quit because nobody would help her, and she felt she was left to drown. When management came back to staff with her exit comments, their answer was since she was making MORE than some of the oldtimers she must not need their help.

Hmmm. I have mixed feelings about this whole issue, but I did want to warn students and new grads to keep their salaries to themselves. People are VERY serious about the $$$ they make and it can cause lotsa problems to share salary info freely. ;)

Good luck to ya'll and hope you find satisfying AND good paying jobs! :)

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I'm not sure how most hospitals handle this since I'm not a nurse yet, but my husband works in the OR at our local hospital. He told me that when a nurse gets hired, HR tells them that they are not allowed to discuss pay with co-workers. I imagine they must do it prevent resentment towards new grads and they probably don't want the lower paid people to try to demand higher pay.

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ISN'T THERE SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?? Why are new grads making more money than the nurses that have been there 5, 10, 15 years?! If the hospital is going to increase salaries for new grads, they should increase salaries for everyone. That's no way to retain experienced nurses..... Please tell me that most hospitals aren't like this!

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Another RN at my hospital who had been working there for 7 years found out new grads were being hired on at $6 hr more than she made. She didn't retaliate towards the new hires, but did go right to the CEO (who said he had an 'open door policy')and GOT her raise, but made an enemy of the manager by jumping over her head. She was let go shortly after and I'm sure it was no coincidence. :(

Of course its not right, these management policies. It is one of the reasons I support unions. I work in quite a dysfunctional area I know, and also hope it's not as bad everywhere else. I've gotten quite cynical due to what I see go on here, I'm afraid. :(

I also feel part of this tactic involves the wish to run off the older staff, such as when a new manager comes in, she wants to 'start over' with 'her' people. This particular manager also brought over a whole bunch of nurses from her last job...and she favors them over the 'old' staff too. I've seen this before. And admin wonders why we have such high turnaround!!! No big surprise here...

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Specializes in Cardiovascular.

Darci,

We are thinking about moving near Omaha (it is where I grew up) - my parent's live in Fremont and the cost of living is great there (compared to where we live now!) Is this anywhere near the hospital you have mentioned?

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Originally posted by EmeraldNYL

ISN'T THERE SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?? Why are new grads making more money than the nurses that have been there 5, 10, 15 years?! If the hospital is going to increase salaries for new grads, they should increase salaries for everyone. That's no way to retain experienced nurses..... Please tell me that most hospitals aren't like this!

I don't know about most hospitals, but my hospital isn't like that. The issue came up during one of my orientation classes and the educator made some sort of statement about valuing all nurses but also rewarding loyalty ;)

As a new grad, I would be extremely uncomfortable making more than the experienced nurses mentoring me.

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Here in SW Oklahoma new grads (ADN/BSN) are starting 16.94... 2.50 diff for nights, 2.50 for weekends

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Specializes in Gerontological, cardiac, med-surg, peds.
are there any msn new grads out there that can talk about their starting salaries?

although i am not yet an msn grad (someday i hope to be :) ), i do work in an area that requires msn in most cases (adn faculty). my starting salary is $10,000/year less than what i was making as a staff nurse :( . in fact, most of our new graduates start out making more than we do! it seems the higher up you go in nursing degree-wise, the less money you make. :eek:

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Specializes in Gerontological, cardiac, med-surg, peds.
Hmmm. I have mixed feelings about this whole issue, but I did want to warn students and new grads to keep their salaries to themselves. People are VERY serious about the $$$ they make and it can cause lotsa problems to share salary info freely.

Very sage advice. So often, new grads are being paid $$ more/hour than faithful coworkers who have been at the facility for YEARS. So it's not JUST wage compression anymore, as bad as that is. It's wage reversal (the less years, the MORE salary you make). Is nursing management dysfunctional or what? When the more experienced nurses find out (and they always DO find out), it causes such bitterness and resentment. They feel betrayed and leave the facility. This is very commonplace and contributes to the lack of loyalty to employers and "gypsy culture" that nursing has become. It is now the norm for most nurses NOT to stay at any one institution more than a few years. You make MORE salary if you move around a lot. :o

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Keeping salaries confidential is a ploy that management and human resourses use to hide the fact of how they're screwing over certain employees. If salarly was based on job performance, competence, experience and education; and personalities and/or politics left out, salaries could be competive and more in the open

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