NP making six figures?

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Hey all,

The general salary figure I hear for NPs disappoints me as I'm sure it disappoints the NPs!! I mean an NP providing primary care which includes prescribing medication, diagnosing medical illness, and paying substantial and only getting arround $70K is disgusting!

Is there any place in the country where NPs get paid $100K+? Maybe agency or something? Thanks.

Zacarias,

Registered: Oct 2001

Age: 25

Location: Seattle, WA

Posts: 316

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Lalaxton and dreamon,

Thanks for the information on NP salaries. To be an RN First Assist, do you need to be an Acute Care NP, or can you just be a Family NP?

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Zacaraias,

Not to my knowledge. In Canada, to be an RNFA you must have the following:

1. Current RN license

2. 5 yrs. of perioperative nursing experience

3. Canadian Nurses Association National Certification - CPN©

4. BCLS or ACLS (preferred) current at time of intership

5. 2 satisfactory RN peer and 1 self evaluation of clinical competence

6. Satisfactory employer reference

7. Letter of intent to mentor from surgeon(s)

8. Application and payment in full

9. University/college first year english with pass or better

Check out http://www.bcit.ca for more information.

This is a certification program, not a degree program.

Hope this helps

My Aunt makes 90,000, and she live in rural Alabama. And crna start out at 125,000 a year here as well, according to her and people she knows.

She was making 90, while under a doc(fnp)..but she just opened her own practice here, a few weeks ago..so who knows how much she'll make.

and when my Aunt resigned, the doctor told her she wasn't good enough to have her own practice lol. mean old man

I make well over $100,000 a year. I am an acute care nurse practitioner who runs an ER "fast track." I am affiliated with an ER physicians' practise who does my billing and provides benefits like health insurance and retirement. Nurse practitioners who are hospital employed are not paid as well as me. You have to move around to find the right situation and the right pay. Of course, money isn't everything.

Originally posted by avigail

Of course, money isn't everything.

No...but it makes going to work every day a whole lot easier. :)

Specializes in oncology.

So if you were a neonatol NP, who worked in a NICU setting you would be one that would make less money, because you would be hospital employed? What would their salary be like?

I am presently hospital employed but am going to private practice. Quality of life is the biggest issue as I believe in the hospital I am underpaid for the level of service and responsiblity I carry. Also, as a part of a small group I have worked through every illness in the past year so as 'not to screw anyone over'. The benefits in the hospital were top notch. However, my new job they are actually better (except I won't accumulate sick time >>>that i never used anyway , but was nice to have as a cash out at the end of the year) and i have a greater degreee of flexibilty with my life. I will also be alble to remain with my medical privleges and credentaling at the hospital.

The nurses in the hospital always felt i made 'alot' of money. In short...i made about 3 dollars more per hour than what a perdiem would make in the ICU. And that included me working holidays and weekends without shift diff and my lunch deducted though i couldn't leave the building.

MORAL>>>shop around. It takes a while to get your bearings and all the experience you accumulate along the way serves as a great negoitiating tool when it's time to find a new job.

My current FNP salary at private family practice is $75,000 plus benefits. This is with

I have been out of NP school 1 year, I work for a neurosurgery grp. I work 4 days per week an average of 10-12 hrs per day, no call, no weekends and I make 85,000. I see pts in the clinic 1 day per week and the rest of my time is spent as a hospitalist.

I plan to ask for 100,000 when I redo my contract in a few months and I feel confident that I will get what I am asking.

When I finished school it was a HUGE pet peeve of mine that these practices are pulling in BIG bucks and throw their mid-level provider a few peanuts. A mid-level provider's pay should reflect the provider's pay. I agreed to work in the practice 6 months without a contract for 76,000, after the 6 months I told them we would talk. I worked my buns off demostrating my worth to the practice. I was the first NP in the practice. At the end of 6 months they did not blink an eye at my request for 85,000. I know my approach is not right for every situation. At the end of 6 months, I was ready to walk if they were unwilling to honor my request. I had decided that I would not allow myself the dishonor of being underpaid. This whole pay thing frustrates me, as I feel there is something wrong with a situation where the physician providers are making 800,000-1 million per year and the mid-level provider in the practice is making a 5 digit income. Okay, I'm off my soap box.

hi penny,

i recently joined a private practice for nepro. and work 4 days.

the 5th day is like just round in the hospital no office. the other 4 days are split 1/2 day office and then hospital. i picked up the practice of a physician who moved out of town.

i too am making about 84,000 with full benefits so i figure that adds another 10,000 to the base. however, when i renegoiate i plan to ask for a good increase too. i have given them way more than they bargined for and take full call. the only thing i don't do is round at the dialysis center. they're great to work for but when i figure the hours i put in (probably close to 60 hours weekly with call included) i have a good argument for more dough.

good luck to you.

Originally posted by EastCoast

"Of course, money isn't everything."

No...but it makes going to work every day a whole lot easier. :)

:lol2:

Specializes in oncology.

Hello, so do you make more by working in a Doctors office type setting rather than working in a hospital. I ask because I am torn between going for the neonatal NP and working in a nicu or going for the family NP. Which is the money at? Not that it means everything I would just like to know. Thanks

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