Albany Medical Center

NurseVoldemort, BSN, RN · Jan 18, 2014

New grads make a pathetic $19/hr. With 6 months you would probably get the same. Nurses go there for the experience not the wages.

GIEndoRN, BSN, RN · Jan 18, 2014

I would be interested to know comparisons from other area hospitals. Ellis? St. Peter's? Saratoga?

NurseVoldemort, BSN, RN · Jan 18, 2014

Ellis is union so they do pay the best. Dont know new grad wages tho. St Peter's for new grads is around $21 and thats for all of at peters health partner hospitals. Saratoga I have no ideas on.

NurseVoldemort, BSN, RN · Jan 18, 2014

I will tell u that st peters offered me $25 w 5 years experience and Ellis offered more.

GIEndoRN, BSN, RN · Jan 18, 2014

Ellis is union so they do pay the best. Dont know new grad wages tho. St Peter's for new grads is around $21 and thats for all of at peters health partner hospitals. Saratoga I have no ideas on.

Thank you! Yikes. Paying back student loans is going to be more painful than I expected.

NurseVoldemort, BSN, RN · Jan 18, 2014

Get a year pf experience then go agency. Favorite healthcare has a lot of local contracts and wages bump up to around $35 for med/surg.

GIEndoRN, BSN, RN · Jan 19, 2014

Thank you NurseVoldemort! I hate to sound like I'm all about the money, but as a mature person with a family and student loans, unfortunately compensation is something I have to consider. I'm going to try to get a tech job at Ellis this year, hopefully that will give me an edge when I graduate.

McLovin' · Aug 23, 2017

Does anyone know what Albany Med starts nurses at who have about 6 months experience- not sure if that is considered a new, graduate nurse or not...

probably you'll start at $25/hr. At least that's the recent RN reclassification leads you to. Personally its a pile of bull.