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)
5. Charge Nurse = 7.5%/hr, PM = 10%/hr, NOC = 20%/hr (percentage of base salary)
6. Yes, but no benefits aside from holiday pay and differentials. I am a float pool on call, but fortunately get anywhere between 80-110 hours per pay period.
5. Evenings $2.25, nights $2.75, I forget what weekends are
6. Not a chance in the world!
Rent plus my utilities comes out to right around $1100-$1200/month, so I'm definitely not able to save as much as I want to. Housing is really cheap here, though, but the housing market is really bad and houses are almost impossible to sell for a good price, so rent is really inflated. :/
4. All new rns start at 24/hr. Just got a raise though so I'm at 24.48. 4k/ tuition reimbursement.
5. 0.75 for nights. Nothing for weekends unless you do weekend only program
6. Nope
We just bought a 4 bedroom single family home on 1.5 acres for 300k. Taxes are 5600/yr. cost of living is pretty high, but compared to the immediate philly suburbs (where we are originally from), we got a good deal on our house and property.
Seeing everyone's rate and cost of housing kind of makes me want to move. I absolutely LOVE where I work though, and I can't imagine being somewhere else. Looking forward to going to work means more than money to me.
Expensive to live here and insurance for me and my new baby costs me $400/month. Struggling to survive and support my family. My rent is $900/month not including utilities. Gas and food also not cheap either. Considering moving because I'm struggling to make it.
3. Specialty/unit and work setting (clinic, hospital, prison, etc) : med/surg Onc , large teaching medical center
4. Hourly Pay (base rate) or salary: $25
5. Differentials (if any): $6 weekend night, $4 weekday night, $4 evening, time and a half holidays, PEP pay if full time and no tardies/call ins($200/paycheck.)
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nurseJU
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Current job:
1. CA (SF/Peninsula)
2. 3 years
3. SNF/LTC/Short term rehab
4. 62/hr
5. Charge Nurse = 7.5%/hr, PM = 10%/hr, NOC = 20%/hr (percentage of base salary)
6. Yes, but no benefits aside from holiday pay and differentials. I am a float pool on call, but fortunately get anywhere between 80-110 hours per pay period.
My previous job looked like this:
1. CA (East Bay)
2. 3
3. LTC/SNF
4. $30/hr
5. NONE. And overtime was a very huge no.
6. None for RN's