**POLL** New 1st Year RN Salary

[Bell13]

Hello all, I am curious to see what the current pay rate is across the country so we can better prepare ourselves and negotiate better salaries! Please try to keep this poll to any graduates after 2010. Thanks!

1) State

2) Hourly Salary

3) Experience, if any

4) Specialty, if any

Here's mine:

NJ

$26/hr new grad, no exp., recently changed jobs $33/hr 1 yr exp.

Only 1 year old RN

Nephrology/dialysis

[Hailbop16]

Wow- it's amazing the range from state to state and job to job. Here is mine-

1) TX

2) $27.00

3) None

4) SNF/LTAC

Are you ADN or BSN?

[Emmi7]

IN

$23.00 on days 7-3p

No experience -ASN

LTCF

[applesxoranges, BSN, RN]

First Job

1) Ohio

2) 24.80 + 1 dollar for night shift + 1 dollar for weekends

3) Unit clerk/paramedic

4) ICU

I hated it so I quit the job.

2nd job

1) MI

2) 24.77 + 1.40 for night shift

3) 6 months ICU, unit clerk, paramedic

4) ER

ADN soon to be BSN.

[BethanyJoy]

Tulsa, Oklahoma

$21.60 w/ $4.00 shift differential

New grad

Med/Surg

[RunerNurse]

FL

$23 w/ diff: $2 weekends prior to 3pm, $4 weekends after 3pm

New Grad ADN, 11 year paramedic, 1 year ER tech

Cardiac floor

[sourapril]

CA ranges from $20-$52. That's a big gap. Also, any new grads from Hawaii, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, etc want to tell us how much you make?

[annieob]

1) MA

2) $24.63

3) New grad RN-BSN

4) Subacute rehab

[jar312]

1) MI

2) $22.85. $2.50 for nights new grad no experience

3) RN-ADN

4) Sub Acute Rehab

[rlhtsvm]

1) CA

2) $33.58 with $4 differential for nights and $4 for weekends

3) New grad

4) Medical/Surgical and Telemetry unit

[Skips, MSN, RN]

1) Nebraska

2) $21.50/hr, after 3 p.m., pay is $23.something per hour, on weekends, I get $24.something per hour, after 3 p.m. on weekends, I get $26.something/per hour. I don't remember the exact cents on them! (:

3) zero, I'm a new grad about to start my first job

4) I'm starting out in an ICU

[TinkerBell2002]

1) MI

2) $28/hr

3) ADN; New grad

4) SNF/LTCF

[flyersfan88]

....anyone else feeling incredibly sad and broke after seeing their check after taxes? LOL part of me wonders why I didn't just stay waiting tables.