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)
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.
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.
No shift differential, just a tiny weekend differential
Non union.
Not great pay but not bad either. Housing is $700/mo plus utilities for a 2 bedroom house.
OP, you did mention that cost of living varies greatly, it would be interesting if all included approximate housing costs with their reply [thanks to those who did, it makes me kind of glad to not have to pay for housing in NY or SoCal!]
1. State you work in 2. Years of experience 3. Specialty/unit and work setting (clinic, hospital, prison, etc) 4. Hourly Pay (base rate) or salary 5. Differentials (if any) 6. Union?
snowbiggie
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1. Bay Area, CA
2. 5 years exp
3. Large Hospital ICU
4. 63$/hour days
5. Non union.
Cost of living is crazy here.