OMG--is US$32 per hour as starting too good to be true or really true in Los Angeles?

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is US$32 per hour as starting for RN too good to be true or really true in Los Angeles?

Specializes in ER.

Hi! What do you mean? Is experience a factor when the empoyer decides to hire you over another applicant? Experience, how you come across in the interview etc. I'm not sure if I got what you were referring to?

Hi! What do you mean? Is experience a factor when the empoyer decides to hire you over another applicant? Experience, how you come across in the interview etc. I'm not sure if I got what you were referring to?

Some hospitals will start a nurse out at a higher rate if they have experrience in their home country, or another country. Nursing in the Philippines is so very different from the US, that most will not get the extra when they start if from there.

Will experience also play an important factor when being considered for hiring except towards extra pay? I just can't tie it up.

Sometimes, depending on the area of experience, for you, it should help with your area.............with med/surg definitely not.

i am always surprised that nurses get all excited over $32 an hour! hello!!! you're worth MORE!!!! who are you comparing yourselves to to think that's good money?... cashiers? lab techs?? unit clerks??

compare yourselves to physicians, speech therapists, cpas, lawyers, business leaders, teachers, and all educated professionals. you'll soon see $32 per hour is cheap. if we could bill per procedure etc, we'd be paid more in the range of $50 - $75 an hour.... our true worth and proportionate to what we do for our patients!

(back to the bsn min req to support my opinion... but that's another old beaten thread)

How true its rather sad that as a new grads we have to look at 20.50 as a starting wage...

20.50 in todays world is really sad.

They wonder why more males are not going into nursing with the wages lowlike this to start thats a big part of it.

The first semester in nursing also scares many male students away...

they are wearing what? and you want me to change them I've seen male students leave just because of that.

You need to take into account the cost of living in an area, and what the tax rate is.

San Francisco area pays in the $40s per hour as a starting rate, but the cost of an apt is extremely high and the taxes are quite high; so someone may actually come out ahead with their take home pay by living someplace where apts are not close to $2000 per month and more and the taxes do not take such a big bite of your pay.

This thread is also more than 15 months old as well so the rates have increased as well.

starting salary in our hospital is $31.50/hr but will increase to $33/hr next month and will increase again to $35/hr by mid year 2008 BUT the cost of living here in NY is so high that car payments, rent,food and utilities gobbles up 65% of my net salary. dont forget that I also have to pay City tax aside from Federal and State taxes. good thing my wife is working in the same hospital so we get to save on gasoline ;)

next year would be a different situation though :uhoh21:

Thanks for sharing this, my point exactly. Where there are higher salaries, there are usually higher costs associated with living there as well. And we do see this in the US.

And Happy Holidays to you.

Thanks for sharing this, my point exactly. Where there are higher salaries, there are usually higher costs associated with living there as well. And we do see this in the US.

And Happy Holidays to you.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS to YOU too :balloons:

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I would not be surprised. COL is HIGH in Cali.

i am always surprised that nurses get all excited over $32 an hour! hello!!! you're worth MORE!!!! who are you comparing yourselves to to think that's good money?... cashiers? lab techs?? unit clerks??

compare yourselves to physicians, speech therapists, cpas, lawyers, business leaders, teachers, and all educated professionals. you'll soon see $32 per hour is cheap. if we could bill per procedure etc, we'd be paid more in the range of $50 - $75 an hour.... our true worth and proportionate to what we do for our patients!

(back to the bsn min req to support my opinion... but that's another old beaten thread)

ditto. It pisses me off that my husband could make $80k/yr in tech support with no college degree and I make $50k/yr with 5 years experience AND I keep people ALIVE :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire

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to OP-

I would not be surprised. COL is HIGH in Cali.

ditto. It pisses me off that my husband could make $80k/yr in tech support with no college degree and I make $50k/yr with 5 years experience AND I keep people ALIVE :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire[/QUOTE]

my friend is 24 and only completed around 20 college credit hrs. he dropped out and got a job as an apprentice iron worker. this past year as a journeyman ironworker he made over $80K.

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It's probably true since California is one of the states with the highest nursing salaries. I hear that it's because the cost of living up there is pretty high.

we have a very high cost of living here in miami, and we still do not get paid enough!

for a new grad. $22.53/hr for day shift

an apartment to rent cost over $800 + fees for a 1/1

Specializes in Cardiac Thoracic Surgery, Emergency Med.
we have a very high cost of living here in miami, and we still do not get paid enough!

for a new grad. $22.53/hr for day shift

an apartment to rent cost over $800 + fees for a 1/1

I paid $750.00/mo for rent in Massachusetts in 1988 before I moved to South Florida (which I lived for 8 years). That price didn't even include my electric. The cost of living in Massachusetts (Boston) is probably double what you are paying, for a studio apt., so as you can see, the cost of living may be high to you, but that is probably because you are comparing it to your pay. But I believe it is all relative. High cost, higher pay. I now again live in Massachusetts. The cost of living is still ridiculous here, but I do love living here. :)

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