Comparing Wages in the OR setting

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I work in a small town ambulatory surgery center.There are only five of us nurses. 4 Rn's and 1 LPN. The patients who come in only receive conscious sedation. We have no general anesthesia.

My questions might be a little bold to be asking. I was wondering what kind of wages are being paid to be an OR nurse.

I am now getting 17.89 an hour. I am fairly new in this field. I graduated with a ADN in 1999. I was just curious and was wondering what was out there in terms of wages.

dmclung

hi, in pgh. pa, recent adn grad., accepted a position as a staff nurse in a level i trauma hospital making 20.28/hr. i don't remember discussing on call salary with the recruiter, i assumed it was your hourly pay. i will discuss this with her and report back.

i do agree a comparable salary depends on where you live. pittsburgh, has one of the lowest costs of living in the country. besides i just left the most unappriciated and underpaid profession, assistant teaching in a preschool!!!!!:trout: you can't get anymore underpaid than that for the work you do.

Specializes in Med-Surg/Peds/O.R./Legal/cardiology.

Esther,

OMG!! I just had the chills reading your post about surgeon abuse of the schedule for their own benefit, abuse of staff, admin. with No balls, etc.! I left the O.R. 4 months ago after YEARS! You brought it all back to me as to the reasons I left. I. Am. SOO. Glad. I'm. Gone.!!!

ebear :balloons:

Specializes in OR.

Wow.....I work in CA in an outpatient surgery center and make 38.50, per diem

I have been a nurse for 30 years.

I'm not too concerned about the variations in pay across the country. I'd just like to know if RNs in the OR make less to start that do RNs who start out on a Med Surg floor or ICU. Does anyone have the answer?

Thanks!

Specializes in O.R., ED, M/S.

OR nurses will make more in the long run because of the added call they have to take.

Specializes in Operating Room.

I am about to graduate with my BSN in Dallas, TX. As an OR graduate nurse intern, my starting salary is 21.50, an offer that I received from another hospital was $23.77. Both hospitals are level 1 trauma centers with over 900 beds, in Dallas. This hospital is a magnet hospital, and the cost of living in Dallas is higher than in more rural areas of Texas.

I'm not too concerned about the variations in pay across the country. I'd just like to know if RNs in the OR make less to start that do RNs who start out on a Med Surg floor or ICU. Does anyone have the answer?

Thanks!

I will be a new grad in a few weeks and was hired into the OR. It is the same starting pay as anywhere else in the hospital.

Specializes in ICU, Peds, M/S, HH, PACU.

I work in Utah at a large hospital. The pay is $29.10 hour for a nurse that has over 20 years experience (in any area). I hope this helps.

msj2007,

in my area; or nurses are considered staff nurses and are paid the same as any non specialty or management nurses. so it would be the same pay.

3 years experience. Graduated in 2005. My base rate is $23/hour. Time and 1/2 over 40/week. $2.50/hour to carry a pager and be on call. Time and 1/2 for all called in hours. I live in Wisconsin and work at a small Catholic hospital. Last year I made a little over $52,000 for the year with all the call and regular hours. However, the cost of living isn't that bad here but Wisconsin has one of the highest state taxes.

i am a male nurse in the operating room , my salary is 600yuan/month , so low,and that's why there are lots of nurses in china want to go abrod to have a try.

and in beijing ,there are lots of companies which can help the nurse going abroad, and said there is high salary and respect in the nursing area. i dont know wheather is true or not, but i almost trust them completely.

Ouch, these salaries are pretty painful.

I'm in So Cal with 7 years Exp.

$38/hour base

$2.50/hour shift diff for 11am-7:30pm

$6.50/hour for the pager

1.5 x call back.

Of course cost of living is much higher in so california. But at the end of the day, both my house and my 401k will be a whole lot more when I retire to the mountains in oregon. So I can hardly see the argument for getting paid less for living in a cheaper area. It's not like medicare will cost any less when were old regardless of where you live?

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