Thanks for your reply. AL is not new although it has been 10 years since I last worked in one. When I left 10 years ago, I was somewhere in the $11/hour with full benefit range. I have worked at clinics since that time until 2009. The specialty clinic I left in 2006 payed me $16/hour and then I went part-time at a family medicine clinc and made $15 when I left that job in 2009. So, this being an AL rather than a clinic (clinics here pay the least), I wondered if I am being realistic or not.