Hey just thought I would throw some pay info out there for new grads for st. Louis area. I interviewed this month with SSM St. Joseph Health Center, SSM St. Mary's and I have 2 more interviews this week with St. Lukes and Missouri Baptist Med Center. The starting pay at SSM St. Joe's is $18.25 with a sign on bonus of $5000. Shift diff is different for evenings and nights and weekends and weekend nights. I was told weekend days was $2.00 xtra and weekend nights was $3.00 per hour more. SSM St. Mary's is downtown St. Louis, and they are more desperate for nurses, but I don't think the pay reflects that much. St. Mary's offers 11% nights and 16% weekends of your base pay. Base pay is $18.25. SSM does offer tuition reimbursement and they will pay back your student loans up to $12,000. Benefits will start the day you start. I used to work for SSM before as a Medical Assistant and they paid better than BJC. I was offered a position years ago at BJC and they couldn't touch SSM pay. If you start as a new grad, they only require a 18 month contract, which isn't bad considering that you will get your experience in 1 1/2 years and will be eligible to do travel nursing and make more money. I don't know about you all out there, but I would like to retire in 20 years or sooner and have my house paid off, and be able to travel to other countries on vacation before I end up too old. Nursing to me, isn't just about money...I want to be able to be somewhere, where I will be happy to go into work in the morning. I will post next week what St. Lukes and MOBAP will offer.
According to Salary.com, nurses in St. Louis area should be making minimum of $53,000 and max of $64,000. I am wondering if the $18.25 would be negotiable. I would be happy starting at $20.00. Does anyone know how to go about negotiating base pay? Thanks
Hi, I'm in my junior year of an online nursing program and want to know if it is wise to begin an online masters for FNP right after completing a BSN? Anyone know what an online FNP program typically costs or how long it takes?
I work full-time making good money while in school and want to be able to keep that job while doing the FNP - any thoughts?
Also, how soon after graduating the BSN can you get a travel nurse job?
I know I'm a little late in responding, but there is no difference in starting pay for having a BSN versus an ADN. Every new grad will start out at the same pay regardless of education.
There sure is at BJH! I was in a clinicals group in Fall '09 which had a presentation from BJH human resources and they said as much. I can't remember the amount, but I think the BSN premium over ADN was 25 or 50 cents/hour.
Ooops! I posted the above thinking I was responding to a recent post... wrong! Equal pay was probably the case then, but not now. Sorry BeccaznRN!
Has the Pay information changed since this post started in 2006? I mean, do New Grads still expect to be getting $18 starting in STL? I would think that New Grad base pay wold have increased since then, right?
I graduated in May with my BSN. I was offered 20.79 with SSM, 20.25 with St. Anthony's, and 20.71 with St. Luke's. I decided to choose St. Luke's for several reasons such as high employee retention and loan forgiveness (with no cap.) A friend of mine was offered a position with BJC at 20.25. All of these are slightly above the set starting pay for an RN with no medical experience/background. All hospitals I interviewed with in the last 3 months has offered 19.50 - 20.00 starting pay with no experience. Don't forget about benefit perks and shift differentials, those add up!
Does anyone know of an accredited Medical Assisting program in St. Louis? And how much is the salary for a medical assistant? Any information would help me out at this point! Thanks!! :)
Knowing both MAs and RNs gabi, in my opinion, if you are going to go to school anyway, you may as well put in the extra time (which may be 2 years more at the most) to be an RN. In the long run, money and career wise it is just offers more.
Does anyone know the current starting salary at St. Lukes? Shift Differentials? They have such good reviews and compliments. I really want to work there. I have an offer at Barnes and the starting salary is 20.25 and I think 2.00 for nights.
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Hi, I'm in my junior year of an online nursing program and want to know if it is wise to begin an online masters for FNP right after completing a BSN? Anyone know what an online FNP program typically costs or how long it takes?
I work full-time making good money while in school and want to be able to keep that job while doing the FNP - any thoughts?
Also, how soon after graduating the BSN can you get a travel nurse job?
Thanks, Max