2017 Nurse Salary

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Location: Northeast Florida

Experience: BSN RN 07/2015, LPN 12/2014 and CNA 08/2011

Specialty: Psychiatric Nurse

Facility: large urban hospital

Pay: 26-28 base +10.50/hr to work 7p-7a SAT and SUN

Specializes in critical care ICU.

Location: Central Maryland

Experience: ADN RN, September 2016 new grad

Specialty: IMCU/telemetry

Facility: Large urban hospital

Pay: $26.50 base rate. $3.16 differential evenings, $2.50 differential weekends. Occasionally offered bonused shifts where there is even greater financial incentive (like $100) just for working that particular shift.

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Specializes in Ambulatory, Corrections, SNF, LTC, Rehab.

Location: San Diego CA LVN

Experience/Specialty: 3 years + (Correctional, Ambulatory Clinic, LTC/Short Term Rehab

Pay: 24/hr. (36/hr overtime)

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Just hired as a brand new RN at a Rehab facility (with 2 months hospital experience) in Central Michigan at $32.00 / hr. Hospital I just left was in $26 range to start. Cost of living is fairly good, Saginaw and Bay City near by are basically run-down citie so costs can't be too high, Midland is higher due to Dow Chemical. $488 a month for mortgage in a 92 yr old House at 936 sq feet, which includes private mortgage insurance, regular house insurance, and taxes escrowed. House was $68K.

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Location: An hour north of Atlanta, Ga

Experience: 5yrs

Specialty: cardiac outpatient pre-op unit 5day/wk

Facility: 600+ bed hospital

Pay: $27 base. Critical care diff $3, weekend diff $2 for inpatient units.

COL: $1500 for 3br/2ba

But my grocery bill seemed a bit higher when I worked in Savannah 2yrs ago. I got a raise of almost $4 when I moved!

Previous location: Savannah, Ga

Experience: 3yrs

Specialty: cardiac step-down unit

Facility: 500+ bed hospital

Pay: $23 base weekend diff was $10-$11

COL: $1200 for 3br/2ba

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Specializes in Emergency, Trauma, Critical Care.
So I'm going to add to this post. The reason we live and get paid so well is because our unions fight for us to have good wages and good working conditions. I know that there are people in other parts of our country who want more pay, better working conditions, more recognition. You deserve it, and I will tell you that it is possible. If you're already in a union, reach out to your rep and get involved. Fight harder, smarter, and with more people. That's how we did it here.

Oh I'm involved. I don't understand how people hear our income and then think that it's virtually impossible to get anywhere near that. I feel like nurses nowhere in the country should be making under 40s hourly....It's pretty inconsistent across the country, housing isn't cheap for the most part anywhere anymore. And our job is hard.

I did work at anti union facilities in southern California, so I can see the challenge in getting there. No one wants to be the person who lost their job for saying the u word. Hopefully with time that changes.

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Location: Northeast

Experience: 1 year

Specialty: Inpatient Psych

Pay: $30/hr base + shift diff.

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Specializes in MICU.

Philadelphia

New grad BSN

MICU

Experience:4 months

$34/hr basepay + 10% differential for night and additional 10% for weekends with full time benefits

In 2 years, I'll be making $40 with all the differentials.

Facility:Large hospital, unionized

Vacation: 2 weeks vacation per year

COL: $600 for 1br/ba,Live in suburbs

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Specializes in ICU.

NC, almost 4 years experience

MICU

$26.00/hr, $4 nights, $1.25 weekends, $1.25 holidays.

208+ hours PTO per year... works out to about 17 shifts or 6-ish weeks.

Just got $1.50/hr specialty pay because we're so dang short that the hospital hopes adding a paltry $1.50 diff for critical care/OR/ED means we'll stop hemorrhaging people... hasn't worked yet.

As far as I'm aware, this is the best paying hospital in my area, with some people I graduated nursing school with making a couple dollars less than me.

Good two bedroom apartments start around $800, but can get up to $1500 if you want a fancy downtown loft apartment.

Buying, you can find older 2-3 bedroom condos that can be had for $50k-$80k. I paid about $110k for brand new construction 1500 square feet townhouse. Mortgage is $650/month. Nice newer freestanding houses start around $150k. Older, 40+ year old small homes in a cute neighborhood near the hospital run about $100k-$150k, if you want to deal with fixing up an older house. I have coworkers getting giant 3500+ square feet homes with $2000+/month payments, too... don't know why you'd do that on our salary, but there's no accounting for common sense.

In general, when looking at equivalent size houses/apartments, it is way cheaper to buy than to rent.

If you want to do some extreme money saving, you could pay $200-$400/month for a two bedroom in the ghetto, or buy a small house in the ghetto for $30k-$50k... if you don't mind a few extra bullet holes in yourself and your car. I saw a house in that part of town listed as low as $10k once. Yep, that's ten thousand dollars for a two bedroom house. You couldn't pay me enough to live off of that street, though.

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Wow my eyes are truly opened about how horrible the pay in my nebraska/iowa states are after reading these comments.:cry:

I'm betting your cost of living in Nebraska/Iowa are half of what the people in California are paying. It all balances out.

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I'm betting your cost of living in Nebraska/Iowa are half of what the people in California are paying. It all balances out.

I would bet its more like 1/4 the cost of living than CA

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Location: Ohio

Experience: 7 yrs as LPN, New grad RN just accepted residency position

Specialty: Cardiac step down

Facility: Medium sized hospital in medium sized city

Pay: Day shift: $23/hr the first 8 hours, then $26/hr the last 4 hours. $3-6 for night shift, I am not sure of the weekend diff.

I am in a low to middle COL area. You can get a nice house for $130,000 - 170,000. Renting is a bit harder just because there are already not enough houses right now to even buy but you can rent a nice house in a safe suburban area for $1300-1500/Month. A safe/nice one bedroom apt would run $600-800/mo. Property taxes range widely, from $1300-$4000/yr.

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Specializes in LTC, Rural, OB.

Eastern WA

experience: 3 years in July, Med surg in a critical access hospital, ADN

pay: 31/hr base, 4/hr night shift, 3.50/hr weekends, extra $10/hr for extra shifts, OT after 12 hours/shift or 40 hours a week. If we work holidays we get the holiday pay plus the entire shift is overtime. This year the hospital negotiated our dependents' premiums to be much lower than previous years and any care we get with our hospital's group is free, which is great for me since I'm having a baby next month.

COL isn't as horrible in Eastern WA as it is in Western WA, for example our rent on a 1700 sq foot 3bed/2ba 1.25 acre is $1300 and the mortgage would be equally comparable, however my brother lives in Western WA and either pays the same or more for their mortgage on a much smaller 2 bed/1ba in a crappy neighborhood.

Since most of the hospitals in the state are with a union, hospital nurses are paid equally across the state on a step scale, so we're doing much better over here in Eastern WA than someone in the Seattle area and there are less people to put up with :)

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