ChrisHanson

You might be jealous of the pay.

Good, then you know. You should look at the BLS and look at the highest-paid areas in the US for Registered Nurses and then look at the salaries for the county jobs. In a few weeks, all salaries in California will be made public. All of these assumptions can stop and everyone can move on. Thing is, you guys talk out of jealousy. I had a CNA tell me that she did the exact same work as I did as an RN. She despised new RNs. That's on her. If you want to make money, enroll in NP school, and get it going. Or be an MD or DO. It's the same thing, but do something.

But they are. They are at a much higher level than PAs who do not have independent scope, and they are at the same level as DOs and MDs. Those are the facts, not feelings.

During peak Covid, a once in a lifetime event, people were paid a high amount for few months. The contracts at that time were around 5,000 a week working 12 hour shifts as a 1099 employee. Those contracts are between 3000 to 3,500 a week now. I know this, because I worked in 5 states. My pay as a permanent staff nurse where I live in California was 154 annually as a W2 employee with full benefits. NO traveler makes that.

Who are you lying to? We have contracts. Everyone is paid the same based on their years of experience and level. The link I shared is for Santa Clara County which is the highest paid hospital system in the world after Northern California Kaiser, and Kaiser does not pay that much more. These are facts, and the benefits are the best in the world. I can sell my 1.6 million dollar home in the bay area and own a block in your town. I would basically be Mr. Deeds where you live. No nurse in a small town in making 120 to 150 an hour travelling in a small town. It doesn't happen. But if you don't believe me, apply for these travel positions yourself and compare what you make to what nurses in the Bay make on the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

I lived in the Midwest and the south. You get way more bang for your buck in California. You can find cost of living conversions online. NPs in the Bay Area make around 200k and up. That is real messed up about the pay.

Well, I live in California where the pay is the highest in the known universe. If Kaiser, Stanford, and the counties hire NPs, I don't care what a hospital in Tookaloopa Mississippi thinks.

Physicians and NPs are the same. Travel nurses do not make as much as NPs. This is what NPs make in Santa Clara county. https://files.sccgov.org/bc-entesa/basic_salary_plan.pdf All NPs make around this amount in the Northern California Bay Area.

The pay where I live goes from $92 to $133 an hour. I am not sure where these rumors of RNs making more than NPs come from, but the jealousy has to stop. NPs made their move and they have the same scope as an internal medicine physician. They have surpassed PAs by a mile. Your envy and grandiose sense of entitlement does not change reality. Unfortunately, for you, your pay takes a hit with NPs having your scope. Let us know how medical school turned out for your. I always like to know how my peers are doing.

NP school was 28 grand.

Are you jealous?

Go to government jobs and type in nurse practitioner in California. Go to city’s like San Jose so you can see what the pay is.

You don’t see the value of a DNP but the people paying Them over 200K do. The legislature giving them full scope also see their value.