PAY FOR NEW GRADUATE RN's FOR ST. LOUIS AREA

[tigerrose]

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

[mcmtg65]

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

[listener]

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!

[LetsChill]

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?

[MONurse82]

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!

[maggijo]

I just accepted a job at Children's as a graduate nurse, and YES, there's a BSN differential.

[banannie]

What unit will you be working on?

[newgrad17]

maggijo, did Children's give you a sign on bonus as a graduate nurse?

[listener]

I will graduate this month (Dec, 2010) from STLCC and will start in January at SSM/DePaul @ $20.00/hr.

[MedicLifelineRN]

St Anthony offered $18.50

JRMC 18.40

SLU 22.60

[gabi1787]

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!! :)

[trace10]

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.

[newexcitednurse]

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.