Payscale for San Diego area

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Specializes in CCRN, CEN.

I'm an ER nurse with 2 years experience and trying to find the pay scales for RN's w/ BSN's in the SD area. I'm trying to see if the move to SD to be with the GF is worth it or does she need to move to the Memphis area.

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Specializes in Emergency, Trauma, Critical Care.

There are other recent threads if you do a search. BSN typically doesn't pay more, but it is more likely to get you the job. Currently though, in the California economy there are very few places hiring even experienced RN's

I think new grads make 28 to 29/hr or so, so a nurse with two years experience maybe 31/hr? I'm not the best resource on this. The cost of living is fairly high in regards to what they are paying too. I do work with a couple nurses (we're about 2 hours north of San Diego) who left San Diego because the pay was much better here, but we're also over an hour 1/2 away from the beach.

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Specializes in CCRN, CEN.

I didn't think it would be enough, considering I'm currently a weekender making well over that and live in the Memphis area, which has a substantially lower cost of living. Thanks for your reply and yes, I did perform a search before I posted.

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Specializes in Emergency, Trauma, Critical Care.

Yeah, unfortunately many hospitals here do not do weekend only positions. I believe Palomar Pomerado which is about 50 minutes north of San Diego does? They may pay a little more too.

Most people trade sunshine for salary here. Hopefully you and your gf will work it all out.

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Specializes in ICU.

been applying for jobs in SD. with my research, i'd say you'll get around 40$/hr with benefits since you are in a specialty unit.. without benefits, you'll definitely get more.. maybe around $8.hr more. apartments are expensive. but I guess you won't have to worry about it because you'll have a place to stay in. it's kind of hard to get a job though. I was at a job fair last week, an HR personnel said they had about 250 application for one position. so it's taking them so long to look at them.

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Specializes in Emergency, Trauma, Critical Care.

Are you sure about specialty pay? I have yet to hear of a hospital that does pay that. If my co-workers had been offered 40/hr they would have stayed in San Diego. That could be possible if it is for a weekender position though. Otherwise, I don't see those wages happening for someone with 2 years experience.

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