RN Pay Rates in NC

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Hello everyone.

I currently live in NJ and am planning on moving to Mooresville NC. I knew that my pay would be lower moving south, but I just got a quote from a hospital $18.60 an hour. I have 9 years critical care experience. If anyone could help me get a better idea of what my hourly rate would be with this experience I would be soooo gratefeul. I am having a hard time with hosptials giving me salary ranges. I make $35.00 hour in NJ. I don't want to go much below 30.00/hr to have the same responsibilies at work. PLEASE HELP. We were planning on buying a home this week!!Thanks Tracy

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hello everyone.

i currently live in nj and am planning on moving to mooresville nc. i knew that my pay would be lower moving south, but i just got a quote from a hospital $18.60 an hour. i have 9 years critical care experience. if anyone could help me get a better idea of what my hourly rate would be with this experience i would be soooo gratefeul. i am having a hard time with hosptials giving me salary ranges. i make $35.00 hour in nj. i don't want to go much below 30.00/hr to have the same responsibilies at work. please help. we were planning on buying a home this week!!thanks tracy

the thing is that the cost of living here is so much lower than it is there. i can't tell you what the hospitals are willing to pay you but we do have several hospitals in this area. contact them all.

http://www.carolinashealthcare.org

http://www.presbyterian.org

these two are the monster systems in this area with hospitals and offices all over the place.

http://www.northeastmedical.org/

http://www.lnrmc.com/

these two are the pretty good size hospitals that haven't been bought out by the first two. (yet)

http://www.iredellmemorial.org/

i don't know too much about this hospital but ut us not too far from mooresville.

hope that helps!

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I make $35.00 hour in NJ. I don't want to go much below 30.00/hr to have the same responsibilies at work.

Unfortunately the pay you're looking for just isn't there ...

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, average RN pay in North Carolina is $23-$25 an hour.

http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nc.htm#b29-0000

http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_3120.htm

http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_1520.htm#b29-0000

At least the cost of living is cheaper.

:typing

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Hello everyone.

I currently live in NJ and am planning on moving to Mooresville NC. I knew that my pay would be lower moving south, but I just got a quote from a hospital $18.60 an hour. I have 9 years critical care experience. If anyone could help me get a better idea of what my hourly rate would be with this experience I would be soooo gratefeul. I am having a hard time with hosptials giving me salary ranges. I make $35.00 hour in NJ. I don't want to go much below 30.00/hr to have the same responsibilies at work. PLEASE HELP. We were planning on buying a home this week!!Thanks Tracy

Not sure what area of NC you are moving to, but you probably would do better pay wise working in a specialty setting PRN where your base pay would be around$30.00 and with night shift diff on nights 12 hours range from $7-8 ($37-40>) depending on years of exeperience. Of course you would PRN would not have benefits, but you could do a baylor weekend baylor position 2 days (12 hours) on the weekend and get pay for 64 hoursw/full benefits at one of the nursing home. If this is anoption apply for nursing supervisor in the nursing home pay will be higher than regular staff nurse.

Hope this helps,

~Praise RN

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yeah no where that I know of is going to pay you $35 an hour no matter how much experience you have.

And Northeast has been eaten up by Carolinas Health Care System effective June 1st.

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I was making $36.25 in Atlanta ... and was offered $19.40 upon moving to NC. The strange thing is the cost of living is NOT at all lower in NC, in fact we had to spend over $60K MORE to buy a house equal in size to the one we had in Atlanta. From what I understand, agency and home health is where the money is ...

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Hello everyone.

I currently live in NJ and am planning on moving to Mooresville NC. I knew that my pay would be lower moving south, but I just got a quote from a hospital $18.60 an hour. I have 9 years critical care experience. If anyone could help me get a better idea of what my hourly rate would be with this experience I would be soooo gratefeul. I am having a hard time with hosptials giving me salary ranges. I make $35.00 hour in NJ. I don't want to go much below 30.00/hr to have the same responsibilies at work. PLEASE HELP. We were planning on buying a home this week!!Thanks Tracy

That seems awfully low to me. Hospitals here in the RTP area are paying more than that to new grads, plus shift diff!

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I was making $36.25 in Atlanta ... and was offered $19.40 upon moving to NC. The strange thing is the cost of living is NOT at all lower in NC, in fact we had to spend over $60K MORE to buy a house equal in size to the one we had in Atlanta. From what I understand, agency and home health is where the money is ...

I take it you're now living on the beach or at least within striking distance of the beach, which makes your property MUCH more expensive that what you would pay in an inland location such as Atlanta. Wrightsville Beach, Wilmington, Nags Head - all of those areas have housing that's much more expensive than even RTP.

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I was making $36.25 in Atlanta ... and was offered $19.40 upon moving to NC. The strange thing is the cost of living is NOT at all lower in NC, in fact we had to spend over $60K MORE to buy a house equal in size to the one we had in Atlanta. From what I understand, agency and home health is where the money is ...

They say the cost of living is lower. The truth is that it's really not, unless one was living around time square in ny where accomodation is very high. THe pay down here is horrible and working condiitons too. Imagine sometimes taking 3 patients at a neuro ICU, plus no secretary so one would have to be entering orders , plus no cna to help. Horrible! All this for $19?

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Specializes in ER/ICU, CCRN, SRNA (class of 2010).

Monster.com has a great cost of living calculator...I move from CT to NC 2 years ago. Monster said I would see an 8% drop in pay with a 6% drop in cost of living. That makes a net 2% loss, which is about right. Although, I live in a nice area with good schools and my house cost about $200,000. This same house would have been over $400,000 in CT, taxes are about 1% annually vs 4% annually in CT. Everything else is the same price or more.

Also, the insurance stinks here, you pay twice as much in premiums, have larger co-pays, and less coverage:o When I complain about stuff like that they say things like "It compettitve with the area facilities:angryfire In other words average:angryfire Well, I do not give average nursing nor do I think the facilities expect average care:nono:

You will love the weather here in Raleigh it is great. Despite the benefits being bad. I would recommend a move to this area, great quality of life.

Almost forgot you want numbers, worked weekend option nights in Ct $36/hr with weekend and night diffs about 42/hr...I work weekend option DAYS here 24/hr plus 8/hr wknd diff about 32hr...about 25% drop, but I went from north to south and nights to days. Plus I still get bennies.:uhoh3:

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Monster.com has a great cost of living calculator...I move from CT to NC 2 years ago. Monster said I would see an 8% drop in pay with a 6% drop in cost of living. That makes a net 2% loss, which is about right. Although, I live in a nice area with good schools and my house cost about $200,000. This same house would have been over $400,000 in CT, taxes are about 1% annually vs 4% annually in CT. Everything else is the same price or more.

Also, the insurance stinks here, you pay twice as much in premiums, have larger co-pays, and less coverage:o When I complain about stuff like that they say things like "It compettitve with the area facilities:angryfire In other words average:angryfire Well, I do not give average nursing nor do I think the facilities expect average care:nono:

You will love the weather here in Raleigh it is great. Despite the benefits being bad. I would recommend a move to this area, great quality of life.

Almost forgot you want numbers, worked weekend option nights in Ct $36/hr with weekend and night diffs about 42/hr...I work weekend option DAYS here 24/hr plus 8/hr wknd diff about 32hr...about 25% drop, but I went from north to south and nights to days. Plus I still get bennies.:uhoh3:

How many years have you been a nurse? Getting that much here is rare. Very rare and that's one very unfair thing about nursing. Same work load, same units, same or even higher degrees but differential is sometimes 100%.

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Specializes in ER/ICU, CCRN, SRNA (class of 2010).

I have been a nurse for 11 years. I know of many people who make more then I do, because they do not need insurance or other benefits and work as contracted staff. They can make like 40+/hr especially if you can work weekend night$$$. There is also travel postions. I do not know how much they make. I here it is very good, plus money for housing. You would have to talk to someone who does that type of thing for more specifics.

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