**POLL** New 1st Year RN Salary

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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 :saint:

Nephrology/dialysis

1) Tennessee

2) 23.00 base 4.00 night shift diff 4.00 weekend shift diff

3) No experience

4) Long Term Acute Care Hospital

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

1) Alabama

2) $18.50/hr new grad + $1.50/hr for certification of choice + $1.00/hr for ER differential

3) 2 yrs. tech/unit secretary experience before hire as new grad RN.

4) ER

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy, I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

Author: Art Williams

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WHERE in CA do you work that you were offered 52$? sign me up!!

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CA

$52 hourly (no benefits)

No experience

Med/Surg

Just got my offer today, so happy!

WHERE in CA did you get an offer for 52$ ? WOW..

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South Bay, CA

$44.26/hr (pension! (Hooray, rare these days) +great benefits)

New graduate RN with 1 yr acute care exp as a CNA

Spinal Cord Injury (Acute Rehab)

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Specializes in Med Surg, Pediatrics, LTC.

1) State-TX

2) Hourly Salary-31.25 hr combined salary and 4% differential

3) Experience, if any-New Grad

4) Specialty, if any-None

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1) California

2) 50.36 base + 5.30 PM differential. full benefits

3) New grad position...4months in now

4) SD ICU

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Rhode Island

$25.63/hr, $1.75 eve, $3.50 weekend, $4 nights- 2% raise if granted by admin on review date each year plus reevaluation of cost of living.

New grad BSN

Medical tele

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Specializes in Med surg/ tele, LDRP.

Flagstaff, AZ

10 months Exp.

MED SURG/ TELEMETRY NOC shift

started at $26, now at $29.38 plus $5.30 night shift diff, a dollar something weekends

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Providence, Rhode Island

$26.52/hr, +$1.75 eve, +$2.75 nights, +$3.50 weekend - between 3-4% raise annually. (union negotiated 10-step wage scale)

New grad BSN, no previous nursing experience

Neuro/Med-Surg with Telemetry

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

1. WA

2. 30.01 +6.00 shift differential

3. No experience

4. Med/surg

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Specializes in Surgical Trauma ICU.

Chicago, IL

New grad in Residency program

$27.17 + shift diffs ($2.50 nights, $3.50 weekends)

Med-surg/telemetry float pool in level 1 trauma center

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