San Diego Hourly Rate

[Jameca32]

Looking into moving from Dallas to San Diego in the next 6 months. At that point I will have over 2.5 years CVICU experience (experienced in taking care of post CABG, carotids, cardiac caths, lung and vascular surgeries, vents, therapeutic hypothermia, CRRT, vasoactive drips, etc). What kind of hourly pay can I expect with my experience at one of the larger hospitals?

My brother is stationed on Coronado and after visiting him a couple of times I'm officially hooked! I appreciate everyone's help!

[Faeriewand, ASN, RN]

I work in San Diego and the pay here is less than in other places in CA. (Check pay on Glassdoor) Gas is more expensive here too. But the weather is great!

[NickiLaughs, ADN, BSN, RN]

I think around mid to high 30s/hr plus dif is the range. I lived in so cal most of my life but there's a reason I live in sacramento....

If you are young and don't have lots of bills you can make it work.

If you have a car payment, student loans, and lots of credit card debt, it will be much more challenging.

And never move to cali without a job lined up.

Good luck to you!

[zzbxdo]

With experience it'll be more about low 40s before differentials, varies a few bucks depending where you can land a job. At UCSD as a new grad post probation will be making 38 or so, 42 with 3 years experience. It's all online, use it to gauge the other large facilities. Sharp and Scripps pay a bit less, Kaiser more. As a FTE likely 90% your annual is at least a comfortable 80k.

[YNJT]

A friend of mine from San Diego made $35 as a new grad. There are also night shift differentials.

[Meriwhen, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN]

At pne of my facilities, your experience would get you about $36-37 an hour. There are diffs for evening/NOC shifts as well as for BSN/MSN. It's union so it doesn't matter what your specialty is--they pay based on years of experience in it.