School nurse salary non-negotiable?

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Hi all, I was hoping I could get some feedback or personal experience with this topic from the collective group. Upon my initial offer from a private school I was told the salary was non-negotiable when I tried to counter offer. There is a Staff Association with a collective bargaining agreement who delineates specific pay scale steps. This is my first time working in a school as a nurse and wasn’t sure if this was something that comes with the territory when you’re working in a school amongst teachers who are usually on specific pay scales (who actually have a higher pay scale). Any thoughts/experience with this?

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After I read more on this board, the more I am learning to be happy with my salary. Thought, to be fair, it took a bunch of pushing and time put in to get there. And I work a 45-50 hour week since longer school days at my charter school.

OP, glad you pushed for the bump and welcome to school nursing!

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Can you tell me what school/where you're located? I'm trying to do the same and negotiate for all my years of nursing so I'm trying to collect data on schools that have done so.
Thanks!

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