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What are y'all NP's making these days? I am currently making 85k salary with my BSN. Someone told me I will not see a salary increase if I go to grad school as an ACNP. Thoughts???

Specializes in ER, Public Health, Community, PMHNP.

@ theoldguy

what state are you practicing in are you also independent or you work for someone?

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I am in the interviewing stage and have a facility that told me up front the salaries for positions posted. She also indicated there was room for negotiation (wink wink). I was so relieved to get some feedback because I have been told so many things from other NPs. One job offer was starting at 110K and a working NP told me "that is really low". Another NP told me ask for 10-15K more than you want and try to meet in the middle - she told me to ask for no less than $125-135K. I just did not want to ask for so much they withdraw the offer.

I have also had many NPs in my facility tell me about all the lowball offers providers will offer new grads $75K and one of 60K with a 3 year contract!

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Oh, and I did turn down a FNP job where I was offered $116,000. Turned it down because it required more local travel than I cared for. So plenty of NPs are making decent pay (at least in the Houston area)

Trilldays, I have personal interview with the doc this weekend, will discuss the details of job opportunity. Need your insight regarding the salary range of Psych NP w/ experience in Houston Areas.

I suppose to work with the psychiatrist group and see patients with psychiatric consult.

Thanks in advance for your response.

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Specializes in Critical Care (ICU/CVICU).
Trilldays, I have personal interview with the doc this weekend, will discuss the details of job opportunity. Need your insight regarding the salary range of Psych NP w/ experience in Houston Areas.

I suppose to work with the psychiatrist group and see patients with psychiatric consult.

Thanks in advance for your response.

Hello! i know a couple of people who are doing Psych and they have said that they will look into asking for $110-125k as a new grad Psych NP with no experience.

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Hello! i know a couple of people who are doing Psych and they have said that they will look into asking for $110-125k as a new grad Psych NP with no experience.

I really appreciate your response. It will be a great info during salary negotiation.

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Please where are you located? Am in my last year of PMHNP school

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Specializes in Critical Care (ICU/CVICU).

I am in Houston, Texas

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Please TheOldGuy, where are you located?

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Specializes in Hospice.

I'm starting at 84000 which is slightly better than my wage as a rn..... Plus the hours are waaay better

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Specializes in CTICU.

Negotiate HARD when you take your first job - often that is your opportunity to start higher on the ladder and raises from there are often a % of your base salary - so start as high as you can! Once you take the job, you have little bargaining power.

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Negotiate HARD when you take your first job - often that is your opportunity to start higher on the ladder and raises from there are often a % of your base salary - so start as high as you can! Once you take the job, you have little bargaining power.

I would encourage all new grad NPs to make it a short term goal to change jobs anyway after their first year. Much more realistic than to plan to stay in the same job forever and hope that incremental annual pay increases will bring one up to where one should be. It has gotten a lot harder for many new grads to negotiate higher pay for their first job because the markets are so saturated with other new grads in some areas and the employers know this. One should always ask for more, but if they say no and what they're offering seems reasonable (and is significantly more than what one makes in one's current RN job) then it would make sense to take it and start building NP experience rather than to let the opportunity slip away---especially if one is in a location where jobs are very hard to get. A year goes by quickly, and after a year of experience one will be in a much better position to negotiate for more money.

If the current employer really wants you to stay after that then they need to step up with the money or you, as the ambitious NP that you are, should be ready to step out and move on to better options. The key is to be willing to make the move. You will find that once you have NP experience that your situation is very different from that of the new grads who are having trouble with finding their first job.

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