Rich nurses?

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you guys are mostly from the USA?

I just glanced over a thread and it seems you guys are ridculously overpaid?

In Australia.. nursing is by far not a well paid job. Its maybe just average. My step dad who was a traffic controller - held a sign that said "slow" and "stop" on the flipside got paid $10 an hour more than me.. i kid you not.

I still looking for a nice 56 T Bird Convertible.

here ya go, darlin'.

for you and the mrs.

i just bought it for you, with this week's paycheck.

http://www.hiltonhead.craigslist.org/car/395480957.html

leslie

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Specializes in PMHNP.
you guys are mostly from the USA?

I just glanced over a thread and it seems you guys are ridculously overpaid?

In Australia.. nursing is by far not a well paid job. Its maybe just average. My step dad who was a traffic controller - held a sign that said "slow" and "stop" on the flipside got paid $10 an hour more than me.. i kid you not.

Check this article out:

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Forbes/10SurprisingSixFigureJobs.aspx

Air traffic controllers make the list for a career that pays 100,000+ and I don't see how their job is more difficult than a nurse's. ;)

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Specializes in Med-Surg.
Im very materialistic.

But are you "rich".........by American standards?

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Specializes in Med-Surg.
Check this article out:

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Forbes/10SurprisingSixFigureJobs.aspx

Air traffic controllers make the list for a career that pays 100,000+ and I don't see how their job is more difficult than a nurse's. ;)

Interesting that court reporters are on that list also. I guess it's the law of suppy and demand working property, rather than the difficulty of the job. Not that court reporting is easy.

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I work in Australia and earn a pretty reasonable $68K per year. The cost of living in expensive but I certainly have a better standard of living here than I did in New Zealand.

An income is relative to the cost of living in any given country or state.

RNs in Australia are hardly poor by any means.

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Specializes in Med-Surg.
RNs in Australia are hardly poor by any means.

That's good to hear. RNs in America are hardly rich by any means.

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Specializes in Licensed Practical Nurse.

well it may seem like a large salary compared to yours but you forgot the cost of living, the cost of living here in the states maybe is higher than that of australia so it probably balances itself out!!! rich? ha!! if anything i'm grossly underpaid and underappreciated!!!

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I am not overpaid by any stretch of anyone's imagination or reality! I am LVN. I am WELL UNDER PAID. I live a room, I use public transportation, and I budget shop for food and clothing! I live in a major metropolitan city in the US with ridiculously over priced housing, exorbitant prices for everything, and permanently low wages.

My current employment facility is offering us a 51 cents per hour increase with a 39 cent decrease per hour the second year and worse the third year! Does that seem over paid to you? :monkeydance:

I think that the majority of nurses stay in healthcare because we are compassionate and dedicated professionals even to our own financial detriment.

Nurse Smiley

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lol lol lol lol!!!!!!yeaaaaaa riteeeee!!! i think nottttt!!!! we are so underpaidddd!!! but most of us are comfortable!!! research a little more and u will see!!

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

"rich" is such a very subjective term. By 3/4 of the world standards, I am very rich, you might say.

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Specializes in Paediatrics - Neuroscience/Cardiac.

haha it seems i did get slammed.

maybe it was late at night.. but i made the thread from other peoples thoughts in other threads.

Things like "im choosing nursing, because its what i want and its well paid" thats not entirely quote on quote but the jist. And from that i think that people in other countries other than australia must get paid well. i hope i didnt offend you by saying you were "overpaid" i understand that nurses could never be overpaid, im just speaking in terms of the wages of other countries.

You will never here that nursing is well paid in australia. and if you do they are a fool. im not poor.. but if i wanted to be payed well, i would have been a tradesman, or stuck with engineering when i finished high school. nursing... simply isn't well paid. i get paid $19 an hour. the exhange rate is like 80 cents to aus$1 and the cost of living in melbourne... well. lets just say i could never buy a house on my income alone. but i am comfortable.

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I am not overpaid by any stretch of anyone's imagination or reality! I am LVN. I am WELL UNDER PAID. I live a room, I use public transportation, and I budget shop for food and clothing! I live in a major metropolitan city in the US with ridiculously over priced housing, exorbitant prices for everything, and permanently low wages.

My current employment facility is offering us a 51 cents per hour increase with a 39 cent decrease per hour the second year and worse the third year! Does that seem over paid to you? :monkeydance:

I think that the majority of nurses stay in healthcare because we are compassionate and dedicated professionals even to our own financial detriment.

Nurse Smiley

I find it hard to believe you cant afford an apartment and pay your car note.... on LPN salary I think you overexagerating.

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