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.

Specializes in ICU, CVICU, E.R..

Location: McAllen Texas

Experience: 22 years. 2 years Nursing home, 1 year Med Surg, 2 years Telemetry, 15 yrs CVICU, 2 years ED

Specialty: ED

Facility: 530+ Bed educational hospital with ongoing expansions.

Base Pay: $38/hr

Differentials: $6/hr ICU, $2/hr CCRN, $3/hr Night shift, $1.5/hr Weekends

OT: time and a half on base pay only. Occasionally granted additional $15/hr for severly needed staff (I have only benefited from this only once)

Seasonal assignments from hospitals here range from $55-65/hr. I work seasonal from October to March for an additional $65/hr.

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Location: Central NC

Credentials: BSN, specialty certification

Experience: 35 years

Specialty: Endoscopy

Facility: Large 1000 bed teaching hospital

Unit expectations: You have to know how to do everything (all aspects of GI, basic cases,advanced cases, including endoteching for ERCP-)

Base Pay:$35/hour- no differential for BSN or certification

On Call Pay: About $3/hour-same pay when called in-our call is on the weekends, but we don't get weekend diff when called in

Pension plan-vested after 5 years

Decent amount of PTO, but that is slowly being decreased

Basic health insurance used to be free, but that is also no longer true

Is the job a good one ? Hmmm.........it used to be

The experience of working in a large teaching hospital is invaluable, but as I review other RN postings, I realize that I am significantly underpaid for what I do

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Specializes in Wound Care, Med-Surg, Rehab.

Location: Houston

Experience: 3 years BSN, CWCN

Specialty: Wound Care

Facility: large hospital

Base Pay: $35.02

Differentials: None

OT: Not allowed!

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Location: Southern California

Experience: New grad BSN

Specialty: Med surg

Facility: Small hospital

Base Pay: $38

Differentials: nights 15% =$43 , weekends 17% =$50

OT: time and a half

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Specializes in Community Health, Med/Surg, ICU Stepdown.

Location: just outside SF Bay Area

ICU Stepdown in county hospital

pay: $50/hr day shift

differential: 6% for evening, 12% for nights, $80 extra for working full weekend

benefits: great health benefits and great pension plan

downside: cost of living is CRAZY and other facilities offer $70 - $100/ hr! (I literally have friends making $100/hr per diem night shift)

I stay where I am for the good management and amazing coworkers, the patient population and lack of micromanagement... However to afford buying a house I will likely need to change jobs =(

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Specializes in Surgical, CVICU & Oncology, Med/Surg.
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Location: New York City

Experience: 2 years, BSN, CCRN

Specialty: ICU (no extra specialty pay)

Facility: Large Teaching Hospital

Base Pay: $51.45

Differential: Evenings/Nights, $3.07, no weekend differential

How does a BSN-RN get a job in the large NYC hospitals? How much experience is needed or must one know someone who works there? Just asking cause it seems to be so hard to get jobs in NYC hospitals.

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Specializes in Critical Care and ED.

Have to update now:

Location: New England

Experience: BSN RN, 30 years, CCRN and Epic certified

Specialty: Critical care and emergency medicine

Facility: Large city teaching hospital

Base Pay: $50.00/hr

Differential: $5/hr for nights

OT: Time and a half for any time over 40 hours

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Location: Nebraska

Experience: 2 Months ADN

Specialty: None

Facility: Group Home (not a facility, an actual home)

Base Pay: 27/hr base pay

Differential: no differential

OT: Time and a half, available when others take vacation or leave for good

Benefits: Three tiers available, lowest tier is free, top tier is about 200/month for single. I choose free for now. Not much in the way of retirement or anything, we get about 7 hours of paid time off per 2 weeks that can go up to a max of 200 hours of paid time off before it stops accruing. Another benefit to me is wear whatever you wish to work :)

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Location: CA

Experience: 1 year BSN

Specialty: Operating Room

Facility: VA

Base Pay: $65/hour

OT: 1.5 after regular shift hours.

Pro's: 8 hours Annual leave + 4 hours sick leave every pay period (2weeks), pension, paid federal holidays.

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CBlover said:
Location: North Carolina

Experience: about 7.5 years; BSN

Specialty: ED

Facility: small community hospital

Base Pay: 25.25

Differentials: night & weekend = $2.50 and 2.50

OT: anything over 40 hrs weekly is time and a half.

Wow, what would you do for extra $? Just curious.

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North Dakota small government hospital 15 years experience ER OB Med/surg $35 per hour plus all the OT I want.

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Where at in South Texas , we are looking to relocate to the McAllen area and are wondering what kind of salary I would be making.

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