ItsColduphere

After talking with several travelers and staff, this was a thought of mine as well. In a couple days, over 100+posts! This is wonderful! Thank you everyone for posting! Maybe we can get 200? I'll put everything in a map graph for a future post! In the mean time, keep posting! I know this is an interesting topic to most of us!

I'll start: 1. MN 2. 6 years experience 3. OR in large hospital 4. 39$ hr on day shift 5. $1.50 diff for evenings, 2$weekends and unsure on night differentials) 6. non union.

Greetings! After reading past informal survey posts on allnurses, I wanted to pose this question for 2013. The intent of this post to to give myself and others a good range of pay for nurses across the US right now based on experience and location. This will be an informal guide for me to start a masters paper on (Subject: area cost of living and nurses salary). Several years ago I believe Houston was voted for best place for a nurse with cost of living adjusted, but I think this might be changing. Things to note while reading other's salaries: -Generally, high paying locations relate to high cost of living (SF, NYC, etc). The reverse seems to be true as well (lower cost of living=lower pay). 65$/hr may be the norm in San Francisco, but the average 1br apartment is $2800 without parking and a house costs well over $1 million. Please take this into account. We live in a big country and cost of living varies widely (especially housing costs) If you post, please state your: 1. State you work in 2. Years of experience 3. Specialty/unit and work setting (clinic, hospital, prison, etc) 4. Hourly Pay (base rate) or salary 5. Differentials (if any) 6. Union?