**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

[schnookimz]

Illinois

28 base and 42 for on call days 1-2x per week

3 years as a CNA and 1 year lpn now an RN

dialysis in hospital

[MSNrunner]

Ohio

$26.41 and $1 differential for nights

Acute Care of the Elderly medical floor

[SunshineDaisy, ASN, RN]

Haha, just figured out the last part. I'm on an oncology floor. Also have no prior healthcare experience.

[Calinurse4]

California

With NOC differential, about $47 an hour

New grad (less than 6 months experience right now)

Labor & Delivery

[crr1987]

Texas(dfw)

Started August 2013

Base pay 29.9 with $5 for nights and 4 for weekends

Specialty is pediatric ICU

[Ella26, BSN, RN]

MN

$20.60

3.5 years as LPN, 1 year as RN (ADN)

Specialty Clinic, M-F.

[katomps]

Hello, I was looking at a pediatric job in TX, coming from CA. which hospital do you work at?

[patiently-waiting]

CA

43.50 base noc dif 4.50= $48

25% diff weekends

No experience

Medicine unit

[Nurse SMS, MSN, RN]

DFW

PCU/inpatient

$23.00/hr

27.50/hr when hit the two year mark

[calivianya, BSN, RN]

1) Georgia

2) $20/hr

3) 1 year of CNA experience, hired as new grad

4) ICU

[klangelo]

PA

$34.50 now, started at $27.32

a little over 1 year as RN

cardiac OR, started as a new grad

[BBRANRN2013, ASN, RN]

PA started in SNF as new grad RN

26.14 base , 5.00 diff on 2nd , 3.00 diff on 3rd