Not Paid Enough

Lericalpoet · Jun 11, 2008

Listen, when your boss or bosses provide a service to their clients, they expect to get paid. When you perform a service for them "you" should expect to be paid! It is great to have a job that you love and co-workers that you get along and all that. But, you did not go to school and study and sacrafice to work for peanuts. If nurses want to be respected we have to demand it. We must be paid well for a job well done. The doctors in your practice could not do their jobs well without you. If they won't pay you fairly then it's time to move on. Believe me, you may miss the place you've come to love. But, when you see your pay check from an employer who respects you enough to pay you what you are worth, you'll get over it! Good luck. :smokin:

Nurseismade RN · Jun 11, 2008

I work for a cardiologist, who also has other doctors work for him, he has 5 offices total. I work in an office of internal medicine. When I began working for this doctor I had just graduated and had taken NCLEX, yet....
So I took a receptionist job, with the administator/doctors wife knew I was going to be a LPN. When I passed NCLEX I was moved to a new office, that they bought, because they needed a person who could do nursing and knew how the front office and back office worked for their company. Well, long story short.... Receptionist pay was $9.00. In the last 6 months besides being the nurse for 2 practioners and now also the office manager, I got a raise in April, ( after asking for it) Guess what it was.....
A big $.50 on the hour.....
Mind you now the doctors wife is always saying how broke they are but
just 2 weeks ago bought a 250,000.00 sports car.
When I asked for my raise I was expecting 1yr nursing pay which in my area should have been around 12.00 plus 1/2 for what the old office manager was being paid, which was 10.00. So, I should be making 17.00 per hour. I don't even make what the old office manager did.
Now my problem......... I love, love my job. I help people and they respect me and I work with 4 of the best girls ever. We are like family.. We never argue, fuss or "cat fight". What should I do? I don't want to leave, but I know I being taken advantage of. Please Help.d

first thing Lola.....change your name to LolaLPN....and congrats.... :yeah:

second.....demand, let me change that...... okay restate that you should be paid the appropriate amount as new grad LPN/Office manager with back pay diff included or you will be forced to look elsewhere. If they do not agree to this and it's obviously bothering you...and it has been six months already....LEAVE!!! 2 weeks notice off course.

ps a little confused....you state six months as LPN in your post, but looking for nurse pay with 1 yr experience, maybe I read that wrong. :confused:

NurseBrittney · Jun 12, 2008

tell them what you want, if they aren't willing to provide it, go somewhere else.

LPNs can make 17-19$/hour in my town (and we are considered rural) at nursing homes and such...13-14$/hour in the hospital.

RainDreamer, BSN, RN · Jun 12, 2008

How do they expect you to make a living on that kind of pay? Like the previous poster said, tell them what you want and if they're unwilling to provide, then leave and don't look back.

Batman24 · Jun 12, 2008

You are grossly underpaid for all the work you do. Sit down and have a frank discussion about an appropriate salary. If they ask what you want go high because they will come back with a lower amount. Give yourself room to negotiate. They certainly aren't hurting for money and you can bet if they were being shortchanged they'd speak up as well. Don't let them intimidate you...be firm and strong as you are in the right here. If they don't comply you will easily find another job for more money.

A LPN in my area makes about $20-$22 an hour from what I've seen. You are doing 2 f/t jobs right now as nurse and office manager. They shouldn't be getting a 2-for-1. Nice deal for them...a nurse and office manager for less than they paid the old office manager. They are taking advantage of you and KNOW it.

racing-mom4, BSN, RN · Jun 13, 2008

You can still be friends with them even if you dont work there. Do what is right for you, you worked hard and deserve to be rightly rewarded. According to the all mighty Dr Phil "You teach people how to treat you".

So thank them for the past few years and everything you have been able to learn while with them and tell them you will miss seeing them everyday, and you really hope to keep and touch. Smile a great big smile and hand them over your two weeks notice. ---after you get a new job....get the new job before you leave the old job!!! But you knew that!!!

Congrats and good luck on an exciting new future and a much nicer paycheck!!!

NPs4health · Jun 16, 2008

Look for a new job first, then when you get an offer confront your current boss and let him know that you're being offerred Xamount of money per hour and if he's willing to match it you'll stay. If not he'll have to find another nurse and retrain her to do all the things you do for the office.