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i know that some of the crna's i know practically refuse to work overtime because they make 130k per year, and dont want to work any harder, and rarely do they work more than 45 hours per week, so to answer your question you are right. although it does depend on what part of the country your talkin about.
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The AANA has data on income of nurse anesthetists. It would be worth going to their web-site
CRNAs can make as little or as much as they want, depending on how hard and how much they want to work. I know a lot of CRNAs who practice part-time and average about $175,000 a year. But when one considers what we do in anesthesia we are never overpaid.
Tell your friend to sign on to this site and let me take him on. Remember what I said in another post--one of the things I don't like about being a CRNA is the jealousy from other nurses.
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Maybe it's because he's military? I know they don't get paid no where near what civilians do. They go by a pay scale, their pay is determined by rank and years of service. Living next to a military base all my life, I've heard of so many people who want to get out and get a civilian job because they can make a lot more money (i.e. pilots).
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tonight at my work i had a heated discussion w/ a co-worker about CRNA salaries. my co-worker said he has a few CRNA friends who don't make much more than $100,000/yr (a couple of them 'seasoned' crna's too.) i told him i know of several positions via GASWORK.NET that post STARTING salaries in the mid $100,000 range and go up from there. he says that those positions only pay so much by working tons of OT and being on call all the time. do any of the CRNA's out there have anything to say about this.