Salaries for FNP

drfitness · May 21, 2009

I actually got some answers to the " salaries for FNP" question from a recent grad and her FNP friends yesterday. So for this market, Boston, which does seem to have quite a bit of Nurse Practicioners, they all said that the starting pay for FNP is around the mid 80's, with benefits. They say its VERY important to negociate, negociate, negociate since the range of pay they can offer you varies quite a bit based on experience etc. One FNP just graduated 2 years ago from an entry level FNP program with NO prior nursing experience or health care experience for that matter( except what she did in school during the RN portion , which was only a few months).She said at first they wanted to pay her 80K but after a little bit of negociating on her part they brought her up to 85K with all benefits. SHe said that is about the range that her FNP friends make two years out of school without prior experience. She works in an outpatient setting affiliated with a hospital. She said the ones that work in private specialty practice can make more ( 100K) and in community health, less,( mid seventies) but there are perks and benefits to both. In community health they can pay back a portion of your loan a year ( up to 25K at some centers)and in specialty( ortho, derm) they will rarely just hire you out of school without prior experience. SHe did make it clear to me that for the money they pay you ( 85K for her ) they work you very, very hard! They like to make sure you see a certain amount of patients a day and she said she is exhausted at the end of the day, from going non stop. However she loves the profession. and glad she switched over from a totally unrelated field. But emphasized like others did in this thread that you need to do it because you want to and not for the money. Her student loan debt( I asked) is around 100K from the program she attended and she will be paying that off for many, many years. I do hope this helps others reading this as it has helped me:)

TRR8021 · May 21, 2009

Interesting to know. Those figures are what I imagined NP's would make. In my doctor's practice, the physicians have the 9-5 schedules and the NP's and PA's in the practice work a little later (I think 7pm), weekends off. I'm not sure what they're earning but it still looks like a good deal to me. A classmate of mine knows a physician that uses NP's and PA's in his multi-practices and supposedly they're paid no less that $100K. I think it's probably likely since it's a derm practice.