Oklahoma Nurses get paid WHAT?!

[Mrs.BSN71109]

I'm a new nurse who has just graduated with my BSN and I'm moving to OK soon and I was doing a little research and I found out OK nurses get paid 18.50/ hr please tell me this a joke. I'm from florida where they start GNs at atleast 22/hr!!!! Please OK nurses shine some light!

[marilynmom, LPN, NP]

Another discouraging thing I learned yesterday is that if you get a hiring bonus in OK it's subject to taxation at 40%.

I have gotten 2 hiring bonuses. One at OUMed ($4000) which was totally tax free and another at Saints and for my first check I made myself exempt and got virtually all of my sign on bonus :)

[TuTonka]

I have gotten 2 hiring bonuses. One at OUMed ($4000) which was totally tax free and another at Saints and for my first check I made myself exempt and got virtually all of my sign on bonus :)

Be careful at tax time and know that your sign on bonus without taxes WILL cost you at the end of the year.

TuTonka

[TuTonka]

Lots of good people in Oklahoma.

If we could find a buyer and DH didn't have a circle of friends we could sell our little CA house and buy a nicer one near my family.

Yes I think some in Texas have a similat cost of living so OK nurses could be paid more.

Don't give up on unions. They said the same about Texas and Nevada, both so called "right to work' states:

http://www.calnurses.org/nnoc/texas/pdf/0408_cyfair_victory.pdf

The song "Union Maid" was written in Oklahoma by Woody Guthrie, who was born in Okema, OK.

His son sings it here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9iuYDK2x-o&feature=related

Many good people left OK. due to the Bad ones :)