Nurses pay

Speculating · Jan 8, 2004

Originally posted by sierranic
From what I have seen, I think RN's get paid less in my state then most of the others. I am not a nurse, hope to be someday!! But I do have a friend that works at the hospital and she stated that they hire RN's at $15.57/hr starting out. I am also told that hospitals have a tendency to pay less then other locations, but searching at some of the local hospitals to work, I think we have 8-10 within 20 miles of me, the most I have seen was in the $16/hr range and the lowest was in the $14/hr range. The sad thing is that I currently have a job that pays more then what some nurses start out at, and my job didn't require a degree..... Go figure....

sierranic,

Are you speaking of RN or GN? That's a big enough reason to move to another state.

PMHNP10 · Jan 8, 2004

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Originally posted by sierranic

From what I have seen, I think RN's get paid less in my state then most of the others. I am not a nurse, hope to be someday!! But I do have a friend that works at the hospital and she stated that they hire RN's at $15.57/hr starting out. I am also told that hospitals have a tendency to pay less then other locations, but searching at some of the local hospitals to work, I think we have 8-10 within 20 miles of me, the most I have seen was in the $16/hr range and the lowest was in the $14/hr range. The sad thing is that I currently have a job that pays more then what some nurses start out at, and my job didn't require a degree..... Go figure....

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Originally posted by Speculating
sierranic,
Are you speaking of RN or GN? That's a big enough reason to move to another state.

Talking about pay differences. In Waco, TX, GNs were starting out at 16/hr and that was 3 yrs ago. How unfortunate.

sierranic · Jan 8, 2004

No, it was RN, and to top that off the LPN's make only a few less than that.... Kinda makes you wonder why you would go to school longer for only a few $$.

sierranic · Jan 8, 2004

I forgot to add this in the last post, but a hospital close to me offers the student nurse internship, which pays $10/hr and once you graduate you get $1/hr for every hour you worked as a student and your base pay as a GN goes to $11/hr...... Which I can't understand why they wouldn't pay you more than that.... It makes no sense... But I guess that's corporate America for ya!!

This is what it says on the web site.... XXXX's are the Hospital's name!! Don't know if I should state which one it is!!

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Senior Student Nurse Tech Position

Participants need to have completed their junior year in a qualified nursing curriculum. The Senior Student Nurse Tech will need to work a total of 48 hours per quarter to maintain their position.

If they accept an RN position within xxxxxxxx upon graduation, they will be paid retroactively with passing state boards - $1.00 per hour worked as a Senior Student Nurse Tech.

Starting Salary - $10/hour

New Graduate Senior Student Nurse Tech Positions

For Senior Student Nurse Tech who are employed with xxxxxxx post graduation, but prior to successful completion of the RN-NCLEX exam there is an increase in salary for the Senior Student Nurse Tech. Upon successful completion of the boards the Senior Student Nurse Tech will move into a new graduate RN position and salary of $11.00/ hour.

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nursedawn67, LPN · Jan 8, 2004

I'm an LPN in Michigan, LTC and I make $15 and hour....and I have been a nurse since 2000.

PMHNP10 · Jan 8, 2004

Originally posted by sierranic
I forgot to add this in the last post, but a hospital close to me offers the student nurse internship, which pays $10/hr and once you graduate you get $1/hr for every hour you worked as a student and your base pay as a GN goes to $11/hr...... Which I can't understand why they wouldn't pay you more than that.... It makes no sense... But I guess that's corporate America for ya!!

They grossly underpay because they can, and they will continue until nurses start saying "NO".

K O'Malley · Jan 8, 2004

From my experience nurses pay maxes out at 10 years. Then raises become very sporadic. You may go several years without any raise at all. Please tell me what other profession fails to compensate its most experienced workers.

Havin' A Party!, ASN, RN · Jan 8, 2004

Originally posted by sierranic
I forgot to add this in the last post, but a hospital close to me offers the student nurse internship, which pays $10/hr

Wow! Assistants make more than that here.

Locally, new RNs start at $23 (or above).

Speculating · Jan 8, 2004

Originally posted by sierranic
No, it was RN, and to top that off the LPN's make only a few less than that.... Kinda makes you wonder why you would go to school longer for only a few $$.

That's the second or third time I've heard this, and I just cringe every time I hear it, "Only two to three dollars more an hour". No disrespect sierranic, but if your not in college you need to go back and start with math. Let's crunch some numbers. Let's just take the lesser of the two, 2 dollars an hour. That's $3840.00 more per year tacked onto your check, and let's start with an average career of say thirty years = $115,200.00. That measly two dollars an hour didn't do anything more for you than purchase a brand new 3brm 2bth 2 car garage home in the country or 3-4 brand new fully loaded cars straight off the lot with Northstar satellite systems. Let's not even discuss three dollars an hour more which is nearly a quarter of a million dollars over a career!!!:balloons: That's why you go back to college!

uk_nurse · Jan 8, 2004

The salary over here in UK is lower than that of USA. a newly qualified nurse gets £16,500 per year. Thats low compared to other professions i.e police firemen etc

laurakc · Jan 8, 2004

I think that you can make the money you want in nursing...

You won't get rich, but you certainly should not starve.

You can work pretty much what you want to work.

They certainly can use you somewhere. If you want $$$, go for agencies. If you want benies, go for a full time job...

Just don't forget to take time out and live...otherwise, you will regret nursing. It is very stressful when you work too many 12 hour shifts.

Good luck..

Havin' A Party!, ASN, RN · Jan 8, 2004

Laura -- Liked your post. Thanks.