Pay Rate 2009

Actually, at a hospital in Fremont, CA they start $47/hr for new grads with benefits as well. I forget if it's a union though, it may not be. And where I live in Concord, CA new grads start at $43/hr with benefits.

It might be the cost of living..apartments around my place average at 1100/month for a 1 bedroom 1 bath apartment right now.

MPLS VAMC

BSN-RN

$27.78/hr (New grad) plus 2.9% increase for 2009. (It may be as high as 3.7%)

Differentials

10% for evening/night tour

25% for weekends (Sa/SU)

35% for evening/night/WE

Double pay on holidays

26 days of vacation per year to start

Public transit subsidy

WOW - wish it was like that here!

Actually, at a hospital in Fremont, CA they start $47/hr for new grads with benefits as well. I forget if it's a union though, it may not be. And where I live in Concord, CA new grads start at $43/hr with benefits.

It might be the cost of living..apartments around my place average at 1100/month for a 1 bedroom 1 bath apartment right now.

Yeah, I make about half as much as that per hour, but then again, my rent is only $575 for a two bedroom. Granted it's a good deal for here (average two bedrooms around here are about $700 per month).

have to take into consideration the cost of living. If I had to pay 1100 bucks for an apartment, I better be making 45 bucks an hour.

Do most of you working in CA work full-time or part-time? Also, do you like your health care benefits? Are they decent?

www.bls.gov/oco this is the ooh, occupational outlook handbook, a governmental site that my professor gave me. it is a great resource for state, city earnings, projected job growth, just about everything!!

that is a cool link...however:

(1) that was most likely developed before the current crisis and no one has been able to predict, with any accuracy, when it will reverse the trend.

(2) and this from the very government who couldn't see the crisis from coming

(3) the same government that still tell people to go into it when there is a glut of unemployed programmers and our jobs were shipped overseas....

and finally,

(4) the same government that is telling everyone that will listen that there is a nursing shortage....brings in foreign workers to fill the "gaps" and now recent grads can't get a job.

ok! got it. :spbox: :hdvwl:

Wow I'm kinda scared to say anything. Yikes!:bowingpur