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Please let me know what your base pay is in your part of the country. I live in TN and where I work our base pay is 13.00/hr. And if you are a CVICU nurse, do you get paid more for what you can do. thanks

GREETINGS from Boston, Massachusetts!! I am looking to relocate to South Carolina (my family lives in the Greenville area) and have been looking everywhere for information on the state and what various hospitals have to offer. The sign on bonus and recruitment bonus both sound great! I am graduating with a BSN in May of 2001. I am extremely flexible and very ambitious to begin a career as a professional nurse. PLEASE contact me if you and your facility would be interested. Also, I would apprecitate any info you have with regard to opportunities for new grads in S.C. I plan to come down and interview, etc. sometime in May after graduation. I thank you for your time and hope to hear from you (or anyone who has any insight into job availability in South Carolina). Sincerely, ARH

Hello I graduate in Dec. from UTA I would love some info. on your hospital

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:rolleyes: Base pay at my hospital is $32.00. I have been there 5 years and my salary is now 49.00/hr base, not to mention differential for nocs and chg.nurse on top of that. I love the CNA! Arnie sucks!

where is it that you work? Just wondering I am searching for jobs. [email protected]

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new grads in my area start out between $22-$24. nurses aides make $9-$12.

where is that exactly how far from Missouri??

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Specializes in CCU/ICU.

I have only 1 and 1/2 years experience here in New Mexico. My starting pay was $19.00 and have gone to $22.00/hr. due to 2 raises for the entire hospital since I started working. The cost of living here also isn't that bad. It's a good state, they treat us nurses okay.

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new grads in my area start out between $22-$24. nurses aides make $9-$12.
Hey there

thanks for the reply....

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I agree with Toadie, as I am not too far away. 4-8 yr experienced nurse makes 26.50/hr not including differentials- nights, weekend, critical care, mentoring, charge shift, etc. This is at my current staff position hospital.

I was an agency nurse staffing hospitals. The pay was any shift during the week was 40/hr and weekends 45. If you worked over 40 hrs in the week, the rate was 50 and 55.

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I am in south Texas, near the coast. I have been an LVN for not quite 3 yrs yet. Lots of experience, ER, Neuro, (all med/surg), peds, home health, LTC and more. Work at a new LTAC facility here, highest paying hosp in the city.

Base pay 15.92/hr

3-11 diff 1.00/hr

11-7 diff 1.50/hr

weekend diff 2.00/h

no benefits 15% of hourly pay

ACLS 1.00/hr

I work nights, 7p-7a, heavy floor, Telemetry usually 7-8 patients.

I make about 19-22 hour depending on weekend or not

RN's start at 28 DOE + 4-5 shift diff (this is with full benefits)

RN's used to get incentive bonus for overtime. 2 extra shifts per pay period=500.00, in addition to your time in a half.

LVN's 350.00 for 2 extra shifts (paid every 2 weeks)

This only lasted about 3 months. Now the standard rate for all nursing who work extra shifts is 100.00 bonus for each extra shift.

Cost of living is really low here, and Im right on the bay.

:) Looking to move to central Phili, already looked into COL. Anyone know what I can expect to make in a large University or teaching Hospital? Please email me [email protected]. Also, what is normal nurse to pt ratio?.....THX

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Specializes in Med-Surg, OB/GYN, L/D, NBN.

I live in Mississippi and my starting pay was $18/hr. As far as gas goes, we are paying 2.59/gallon here... I live about 25 miles from work so... really a toss up.

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Please let me know what your base pay is in your part of the country. I live in TN and where I work our base pay is 13.00/hr. And if you are a CVICU nurse, do you get paid more for what you can do. thanks

I live outside of Toronto, Ontario - Canada and most hospitals have a union and our payscale for RN's starts at $22.00 and top of the pay scale after 9 years is $33.75/hour and it does not matter what department you work at in the hospital as a nurse. If you are the clinical resource nurse (fancy name for charge nurse) you receive an additional $1.20/hr.

ginger

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Specializes in Nursing Instructor.
I am from Erie, PA. New grads at the hospitals near my home are starting out at about $15/hr. It is one of the highest wages in the area. The sad part though is that everyone make the same from Med-Surg to ER to ICU.

I am also frm Erie, PA... Hamot and Vincent (our two main hospitals) start GN's at $18.00 an hour. Where I work I started as a GN at 19.25 an hour

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Wow! Looking from page one I couldn't believe the pay rates. I thought nurses made good money and after years of experience made really good money. Geezz how disappointing in some states.

I just graduated and start working in Washington DC making $25/hr in the Cardiac Surgery. Night shift puts me up to $30sometthing and weekend is an additional $5/hr.

The cost of living here is expensive. A brand new house in our area is $750,000 for a midsize. We just priced one. 4 bedroom house with 4500 square feet. OUCH! Good size house but OUCH on the price.

No wonder there is a nursing shortage. All that schooling? Some states need to really increase their pay.

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Specializes in ER/ICU/PACU/ Nurse Anesthetist.

This thread is old-it was started in 1999. It would be interesting to see how much the bases rates have increased. I see why there is a shortage.

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