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

Modesto, CA

Experience: 3 yrs RN

base $50+, $6 diff; Benefits are really good.

Spouse with over 12 yrs experience makes over $61 on days

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Specializes in Hospice.
I AM NOT THE PERSON..I AM NOT THIS RN. I WISH :sneaky:

Location: Wine Country

EXP: RN BSN 10+ years. LVN 10+.

Unit:NICU

Hospital: Private hospital less than 150 beds

PAY: base rate 70+. hour. Night Diff 16%.

Weekend and Evening diffs I forgot.

Time and half after 8 hours worked. Double Time after 12 hours $170+ an hour. **Differentials are also time and half and doubled.

Some of these nurses gross between 12-20k biweekly. I've seen the check.

1 bedroom apartment is about 2200+

Ok this literally made me nauseous. :( Myself and my husband combined don't bring 12K in a MONTH. Gonna cry myself to sleep now.

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Specializes in Hospice.

Location: Southwest

Experience: 8 years ADN (but only 2 of those in a hospital type setting)

Specialty: SNF/ Hospice

Facility :SNF

Pay: $35/hour - no benefits - 2 weeks vacation - 5 paid holidays

Mortgage with HOA is $2,200 for a 1032 sqft condo. Monthly expenses total around 4K just for bills, not counting food, gas, clothing, fun, etc. :(

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Job: RN (acuity adaptable unit) with 1 year of experience

Ratio: 4:1

I'm in a major hospital in the Midwest. My pay is $39 + $1.5 nights +$2.5 weekends (+ $1 charge /$1 precepting) as a flex nurse. We are getting a 2% bump this year in salary so I will soon be closer to $40 + diff. After 4 shifts per pay period (2 per week) I'm eligible for +$50 incentive pay per hour for emergency staffing shortage....this has been going on for over 6 months. So every third day of the week I'm averaging about $92 an hour. If I work overtime I think it works out to $120+ an hour, which is available every day of the week. I make about $105,000 - 110,000 full time, and can make $150,000+ with only a little overtime. I'm in a fairly low cost of living area. Given the chronic understaffing I'm virtually guaranteed full time, although I'm technically part time contingent/flex. There is another flex nurse on our unit on track to make about $170,000 this year with overtime of 1-2 days per week (and I've seen his checks).

Update: Unfortunately this position does not include benefits or health insurance, but I get that through my wife's job.

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This is an update.

As of August 2017, my gross salary is now expected to be 172k this year with minimal overtime (maybe 32 hours of total OT since the beginning of the year). I will also probably get an additional 2500 from education pay.

I'm going to push to get a little more overtime this year to reach my goal of180k, which would be an all time high for me.

Our union is also undergoing collective bargaining at this time, so I'm hoping that the bargaining would result in even higher pay (hopefully).

as of feb 2017

Location: northern Cali, san Jose

Job type: RN, outpatient for urban area, I work remotely 70% of the time, sun-thurs, 9-5am, 40hr schedule. I'm pretty efficient, so I actually probably only work 36hrs/week with 4 hrs down time/week

Base pay + weekend differential/hr= $74 + 7.40= $81.40/hr = $169,312/year (does not factor in overtime)

Cost of living: It's all relative, but if you'd like to compare my pay, here is a COL conversion calculator PayScale - Cost of Living Calculator

Living situation: $1750/month for 2 bed apt, but I plan to rent out 2nd bedroom for 850/mo in 3 months

Overtime (separate from base pay): I've worked 12 hours OT since the beginning of 2017 (1.5 differential of base, hourly after other weekend diff is $118/hr). So add an extra 12x$118= $1420 to my total pay at the end of the year... and I plan to work a bit more

Benefits (separate from base pay): the usual- comprehensive medical, dental, vision; 401k plan with 1% matching; free gym; 3 weeks vacation/year; 2 weeks sick leave/year; mileage reimbursements if I have to drive; 30 hours paid ed time plus up to $500 travel accommodations if out of area; planning to get Spanish speaking differential (50cents/hr more) if I can get myself to study; and health spending account that will allow me to shelter 2500 from taxes this year when I get some dental/vision work done;all in all, employer estimates approximately $30k in benefits;

So all in all (pay plus ot plus bennies as of Feb 2017)= 169.3k+1.4k+30k= 201.7k

Not bad, Look forward to paying the bills, savings, and having some fun

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Specializes in Med/Surg/Tele.

Location: CA Bay Area

Specialty: Med/Surg, unionized hospital

Experience: 1 year,

~$60/hr with evening differential after 1 year experience, but with our union contract can make ~$85 overtime pay and ~$120 double time pay for callback.

COL very high, rent for 2b/2b apt is $2500+

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Location: Utah

Experience: 4 years with Leadership experience

Current specialty: ER

Pay: 30/hr, shift differential on nights and weekends

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Location: South MS

Experience: New Grad LPN (IV Cert)

Specialty: LTC

Facility: 250 Bed Facility

Pay: $17 base, $2-7 diff for evening/nights

Cost of Living pretty cheap ( Rent for 3b/2bath $ 800)

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Wow these salaries are amazing

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Dang! think I may have to skip the border into MN

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Specializes in Care Coordination, General Surgery, Oncology.

Location: Portland, Oregon

Experience: 1.25 years as an RN.

Specialty: Med-surg, nights

Facility: Vet hosp

Pay: $81,855 base/year (~$39.35/hr), +10% nights, +25% weekends.

Cost of living index for Portland is pretty high at 140.5. Our mortgage is around $1700/month for a house "close-in."

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Specializes in Critical Care and ED.

Location: CT

Experience: 25 years (BSN/CCRN)

Specialty: Informatics/ICU

Facility: Large level 1 city hospital

Pay: $47/hr no weekends/holidays or call ($42 for my per diem ICU position + differential)

Cost of Living high ( Rent for 3b/2bath $ 1500)

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