Salary.com seems inflated!

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I recently moved to San Antonio Texas. I got a job starting at 17 and some change per hour base. This is half of what I was making base pay at my previous job. Basically, with this this pay ill make about 30,000 to 35,000 a year. I then procede to salary.com and it states the low end average for nurses is 43,000 and the median is 56,000. Hmmmm....I cant imagine being that far from the low end. Anyone with some insites? I understand that salary.com is an average but i should at least be making low end pay.

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Specializes in ICU, psych, corrections.

salary.com is dead on for my area as well. It gives a range of $49,800 to $59,400. I will be starting out as an new ICU RN at around $52,000 without any shift differential. With the shift differential, it goes up to $56,000.

Melanie = )

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salary.com is on the money so to speak for my area as well, and for the area I am planning on moving to as well.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Geriatrics.

A friend of mine who is a social worker compared her salary to Salary. com and found that she was making something like 40% less than the low end of the range. Based on that, she asked for a raise and her employer almost laughed her out of the job. They claimed that salary.com was way off and that she was actually higher paid than many of her colleagues.

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Way off in my area too. About $15K off.

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