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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

Here in MA, at the community hosp. I work at starting pay is 25.60 for a new grad. I'm in Critical Care Unit. 16 bed mixed unit - no extra pay. I graduated in 08 and went right in to ccu. I do however get $15.00 a week extra for having my BSN. As a union hospital everyone with the same experience gets the same pay regardless where you work. I know in Boston when I graduated, Mass Gen. was starting at the same exact pay except that their raises were more frequent and more $$. Plus their difs were way better. Anyway, I see how CA nurses get 40 something/hr. and their cost of living is high? Here it's $2.60 for a gallon of gas and almost $4 for a gallon of milk. You can get a small 2 bedroom ranch house with no yard for about $250,000.oo (after market crash). But you can't beat the seasons. LOL

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Specializes in Pediatric CVICU.

WOw! I knew I was fortunate to even land this amazing job in California but wow. I work at a childrens hospital in the CVICU. As a new grad I make $36/hr and have a 3% increase in 5 months.

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:ancong!:

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Just saw this thread...

Wisconsin tertiary hospial, MICU...base is $33.65. Weekend diff $3/hr, PM's $2/hr, NOC's $3/hr. Non-union hospital. Three years experience as RN, all at current hospital. No differentials for critical care units or BSNs.

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I am in the US Navy, with 17 years. I am an O3 and with housing allowance make $107,000/yr. Looking for per diem jobs in Atlantic County, NJ, as I plan to make my transition to civilian life.

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Specializes in PICU, ICU, Transplant, Trauma, Surgical.

Base for most ICU here in Omaha is $18.50, non-agency RN. With experience scale obviously goes up. Oh, and we are not unionized.

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Specializes in CVICU.

Rochester, MN base for new grad I believe is high 20's/hr. Top of scale is mid 40's/hr. Cost of living is low, but the weather sucks. Boring place for a single, but great place to raise a family. Working conditions second to none. I've worked in over 15 different places from coast to coast and this is by far the best for working conditions. They say they put the patient first and really put their money where their mouth is.

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Specializes in CVICU.

Phoenix AZ new grads start at $25 typically (I did 4 years ago..) and from what I hear, it's still right around that mark. I now make $33.74/hr now on days in CVICU. $4/hr diff for nights, $2/hr diff for weekends. $2/hr for CCRN cert. No clinical ladder at my hospital though.

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Specializes in Cardiac.

I was hired at $34.54 in San Diego, CA. One month later everyone was given a 2% raise for living (not part of our raise). So now $35.23. I also get $4.60 for night diff, so... $39.83/hr

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i just want to know if a starting base of $24 here in CT is ok for someone like me that has no experience and was graduated last 2007. thanks

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and by the way i'm a RN with BSN

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Specializes in ICU.

CIC (and the whole hospital) starting at $28/hr here. Median avg gross salary is about $45k around these parts, we make almost $60k a yr w/o OT and holiday pay.

Night shift gets a 10% diff, puts us a little over $30/hr.

Yearly raise for living costs, and yearly raise provided your eval isn't bad. Going up the clinical ladder gets some thousand dollar bonus each year, and extra raises.

We don't get any differential for being ICU or CCRN cert, BSN vs ADN, etc. Instead, those are built into the clinical ladder. AFAIK 20 points gets you from RN I --> RN II.. CCRN is 10 points, having BSN is like 2 points, etc. So although they're not given a differential, it makes it much easier to get an extra raise and yearly bonus.

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