2018 Nurse Salary

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I didn't see one of these posted for 2018, so I thought I'd get this party started. Feel free to contribute whatever info you like. Let's compare some stats!

Location: Massachusetts

Experience: Just about 3 years; BSN

Specialty: ED

Facility: Large urban hospital

Base Pay: $33 and some coin

Differentials: Evening, night & weekend = $3, $2 and $3/hr, respectively.

OT: Anything over my regularly scheduled shift is time and a half.

[CO17FNP]

Location: Indianapolis, Indiana

Experience: 9 years RN

Specialty: ER

Facility: Large Hospital Organization

Base pay: $30/hr

Differentials: $3/hr for evenings, $5/hr for nights, 10% of pay for weekends

OT/Holidays: time and a half (over 40 hours)

[rearviewmirror, BSN, RN]

I work currently at Insurance UR department, reviewing cases based on medical necessity. I barely paid any dues at the bed-side compared to other RNs in this area, but man oh man I am happy to made that escape.

Location: North Texas

Experience: 5 yrs (1.5 medsurg + 1.5 ER + 2 UR)

Specialty: UR department/private insurance

Facility: corporate/business office cubicle.

Base Pay: $68000/year, comes to be about $32/hr

Differentials: normal hours and holidays, weekends LOL. I don't need to work nights or weekends and that's good nuff'

OT: No such thing. Salary-based, but don't take work home ever.

[Lavie30]

Location: Atlanta

Experience: 4 years

Specialty: HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Care

Factility: Large clinic associated with academic teaching hospital

Base Pay: $35/hr

Differentials: None ..I work M-F 8-5

OT: None

My job working in outpatient pays much more than when I worked in acute care (I only made $23 an hour base pay) and the best part is that its muuuuch less stress and I have every holiday off and great benefits.

[OrganizedChaos, LVN]

Location: South Texas

Experience: new to hospital, 8 years LVN

Specialty: med/surg

Facility: Hospital

Base Pay: $19.50

Differentials: $5 night shift, $2.50 weekends

OT: Time and half

[PeakRN]

Location: Mountain West

Experience: Long story, up to 9 years depending on which hat I'm wearing

Specialty: Adult and Peds ED, adult and peds critical care, pediatric oncology, adult and pediatric vascular access

Facility: Large specialty hospital

Base Pay: $27 ish

Differentials: All over the place. Call in in is 1.5x pay and I don't come in for less than a 12 hour shift, nights are about $4, weekends are about $3, bonuses for specialty certification/community outreach/hospital service/et cetera was something around $2,000 last year

OT: 1.5x pay

[spaghetina]

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Experience: 1 month ; BSN - stumbled into derm as an old new grad (out of school and without a job for about a year and a half before accepting this position)

Specialty: Derm (mostly derm surgery)/Aesthetics

Facility: Clinic/ambulatory surgery center

Base Pay: $45/hr (94k/yr base, but I work a LOT of overtime, so it's probably closer to 105-110k/yr)

Differentials: No differentials - I work M-F and have weekends and holidays off.

OT: Anything over 8 hours is time and a half.

Definitely not earning as much as some of the people I graduated with, but the trade-off is that I get to live a fairly normal life, with a fairly normal schedule. At this stage in my life, that's worth a lot to me. Looking forward to training in more procedures and lasers in order to start earning more, but that's quite a way off.

[SquishyRN, BSN, RN]

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Experience: 4 years RN, 3 years LVN (LVN experience did not count towards wages)

Current specialty: ER

Pay: $37.50 base, $1.00 BSN, $3.75 night, $2.25 weekend, $2.50 charge, $1.25 ER/ICU differential

[BSBSN]

Location: North Central Texas

Experience: 2.8 years; BSN, CCRN, CNRN

Specialty: ICU, interventional radiology

Facility: Urban teaching hospital

Base Pay: $33

Differentials: Evening, night & weekend = $3, $4 and $5.50/hr, respectively.

OT: Call pay $3/hr, call back pay @ 1.5x hourly; I work 3 12-hr shifts, often p/u extra shifts for OT as well.

Great benefits. Health insurance is free for employee, we get sick time and 8 holidays per year (banked if you work that day) in addition to vacation hours. Education pay is available to attend continuing ed courses.

[TeddygrahamSF]

San Francisco, CA

Registered nurse, BSN

Med-surg, 9 years

$77.75/Hourly, day shift

[TraumaRN15]

Location: Central KY

Experience: 2 yrs; ADN

Specialty: Trauma and Surgical

Facility: Level 1 trauma academic hospital

Base pay: $23.94

Differentials: $2.50 weekends; $3.50 nights

OT: >40 hours is time and a half plus $12 surge pay

[Ackeem, BSN, MSN, RN, APRN]

Location: south florida

Experience: under a 1y: BSN

Specialty: Med-Surg orthopedics

Facility: big teaching hospital

Base pay: $26.91

Differentials: $2.50 weekends; $3.50 nights (I work nights)

OT: >40 hours is time and a half

Also work per diem at another hospital $35

Specialty: med-surg orthopedic also

[racheler2]

Location: Tacoma, Wa

Experiences: New Grad ADN (7 and a half years as CNA 1 year nursing home 6 and a half years on Ortho Floor in a hospital and last 2 years as a CNA/HUC in ICU)

Ortho/Medical Surgical Floor

Base: $30.14 an hr

$2.75 for evening shift, $3.00 an hour for weekends time and a half for first 4 hours when doing a double shift and double time second 4 hours