RN Salary Survey 2013: Post here!

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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?

1. Bay Area, CA

2. 5 years exp

3. Large Hospital ICU

4. 63$/hour days

5. Non union.

Cost of living is crazy here.

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1) Michigan

2) Almost 1 year

3) Tele/med-surg large hospital

4) 33.77

5) Union

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Specializes in ED.

1. KY

2. 8 months

3. ER

4. 18.94 flat rate, 12% shift diff for evenings and 15% shift diff for nights

5. No unions

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Specializes in General Surgery.

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?

1. California

2. Still on orientation! (6th week to be exact)

3. Inpatient surgical floor in a 300+ bed hospital

4. $49/hr (hired as per diem)

5. $7/hr per diem differential; $2.70 = PMs, $4.60 = NOCs, $1.60 = Weekends

6. Yes, California Nurses Association

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Greetings!

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?

1. Ohio

2. 9 months

3. Ortho/ general surgery

4. $22.77

5. Night shift diff $4.00 hr

6. Non union

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1. New York

2. New Grad (0)

3. Emergency Department

4. $65,800 so $36.56/hr (150hrs a month) GROSS

5. $5,000 for night shift

6. Union? Yep. New York Nurses Association

and yes, cost of living is nutso in NYC - my husband and I pay $2,600/mo for a 1 bedroom (nice area though, elevator/doorman bldg) - utilities and other monthly payments usually come to $500 or so, then you have groceries which is roughly $400/mo, etc.

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1. PA (Philadelphia)2. 2.5 years

3. Pediatric medsurg (all specialties make the same rates)

4. $29 base rate

5. 10% evening dif, 15% night dif, $2 weekend dif. They also have a weekend program where you work 2 shifts every weekend and get 8 days of PTO. Night rate for that is $52/hr.

6. No. And our health insurance proves it!

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Dialysis.

WI

LTC

15 years

$25.00/hr

No shift differential, just a tiny weekend differential

Non union.

Not great pay but not bad either. Housing is $700/mo plus utilities for a 2 bedroom house.

OP, you did mention that cost of living varies greatly, it would be interesting if all included approximate housing costs with their reply [thanks to those who did, it makes me kind of glad to not have to pay for housing in NY or SoCal!]

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Hospitals still pay RN's in the teens per hour? That is a shame!

1. NV

2. 1

3. Cath lab

4. 34/hr (+5.00 per hour on call and 1.5 time when called in)

5. Differentials based on what time a day or night or weekend we are called in

6. No union

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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?

1. PA

2. 4 years

3. Hospice - home

4. 28.70

5. No diffs, $3 pager rate for on-call

6. Non-union

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Specializes in Med/Surg, ICU, ER, Peds ER-CPEN.

1. Michigan

2. 5

3. Peds ER

4. 28.69

5. 1$ hr for 11A-11p (3p & 7p shifts get a bit more) + quarterly and yearly bonuses

6. Union? Yes

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Specializes in Med-Surg ICU.

Oregon

3 yrs

Medical floor with telemetry

$37.50/hr

$2 diff for weekends, $5 nights

No union

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