**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

[RNBuggers]

1. Nebraska

2. 27 on nights with 10% differential on weekends

3. No experience

4. Organ transplant

[kaydensmom01]

Where do you live in Ohio? I live in NE Ohio and $500/ month for a house seems pretty cheap.

An hour from Youngstown and Pittsburgh

[kaydensmom01]

1.) Ohio

2.) $21/hr with no differential

3.) Hired as new grad (now have 7 months)

4.) SNF/nursing home

I just got hired and will start in a few weeks:

1.)OH

2.)$24/hr with $1 evening and $2 night differntial. $1000 bonus every 3 months for being float.

3.) Pay grade for new grad

4.) Float for intermediate care units at several sister hospitals.

[sourapril]

CO

Almost 1 year after school

Started about $23, at my 1 year mark, it will be bumped up to $26 :)

I work M-F 8-5

[SoaringOwl]

South FL (a state w/no income tax! Woo-hoo!)

BSN pay: $23.50 days, $25.50 evenings, $28.50 nights, $27.50 weekends, $29.50 weekend nights. Overtime above 40 hours/wk.

New grad, no experience, Neuro and MS unit

[jenniam]

Southern California

$34/hr plus differentials ($5 for night shift, $2 for weekends)

New grad

Telemtry

[jenniam]

Reading through this, I'd say the biggest surprise would be the pay for nurses in DC. I always thought the DC area was very expensive and should be more on par with CA/NY/NJ.

[leekaye]

1) Ohio

2) $18 with $1 differential nights and $1 weekends

3) New grad (

4) Med Surg

[crj96]

SC

$21.50 base, $4.50 night diff, $2.00 weekend diff, working bailer so I get $32.25/hr two of my three nights each week

First nursing job, four months. No prior hospital experience

I work postpartum/pediatric/med-surg overflow

[SoonerNurse1]

1.) Oklahoma

2.) $22.50 base + 4.25 diff for nights and 4.00 for weekends. 7k Sign on option available.

3.) New Grad

4.) ICU Step down/Telemetry

[CountryMomma, ASN, RN]

1) North Dakota, Red River Valley

2) 23.80 with .5 weekend diff

3) Hired as a new grad

4) Hired onto what was billed as a Med-Surg and quickly discovered was an unofficial step-down.

I'm currently disputing my pay grade, as I am pretty sure what they're paying me is not what was told to me at hire.

[NewGradMayoRN]

1) Rochester, MN (from Pacific Northwest, relocated for position)

2) $32/hr + night and weekend differential

3) New grad with experience as a nurse tech in ICU & senior practicum in ICU

4) ICU

Graduated in June, NCLEX July, 1st offer October. ~80 applications