School Nurse Salary?

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Please state your state and salary as a school nurse. Thank you!

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New York, NY

Work M-F 8:30-3:30, in a middle school with about 250 students

Salary is about $53K/year

This salary range was when I first started in 2013... I am still in the same school and have received a few raises thanks to our union, as well as experience and education differentials. I am now making about $62k/year+ additional $$ if I work summer school. Base pay now is about $58K.

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Specializes in Peds, Neuro, Orthopedics.
Wait, WHAT?

This whole time I thought you were in NY.

I wanted to move back to NY, originally from there, but didn't get any call-backs. Except for NYC told me to call back when I have 2 years experience. I didn't want to wait anymore, and had offers here in MN.

I'll have to change my name to MN beagle now. :)

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Specializes in Peds, Neuro, Orthopedics.
Hudson Valley- $30,450 from Sept to end of June. 7a.m. - 4:00 p.m.. Required to come in 2 weeks in the summer for sport checks. During the summer I get per diem pay $100/day. I am in the middle school. The high school nurse makes $35,000/yr, they say it is because she has a higher population. She works 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.. I am seriously thinking of quitting. The responsibility, hours and lack of respect from the principal and district office is awful. The school district has no regard for nurses nor do they even understand the job we do. We are not in the teachers union, so our benefits are lacking. This will be my second year. I asked for a salary increase earlier this year and the answer was no. I will ask again, if I do not get one I will more than likely not be returning.

I looked for SN jobs all over NY, and the salaries were far too low. Come to MN, we're hiring and pay a real salary.

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Specializes in School Health.

AZ, Charter school, 550 students, 10 months pay, full benefits, retirement..$36,500 after 3 years they pay for all contuining education classes or to further my degree, yearly review with raises. I'll be here until I retirement. I love my kids and the staff at this school; we all fit perfectly together after 3 years.

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Before I chime in, I wanted to say I am a long time lurker and first time poster. AN has gotten me through a lot so I just wanted to say thank you!!

I'm a first year school nurse in Maryland and I make a whopping 37k/10 month year. It was a bit of a pay cut from working in a very large Baltimore hospital, but not by much to tell the truth. I had already taken a HUGE pay cut when I moved from NJ to MD so this wasn't too much of a shock to my bank account. I work 8:30-3:45. I am home by 4:15 every day, my commute is slashed in half, no tolls, I leave on time everyday and (best of all) NO MORE PRESS-GAINEY SCORES TO HEAR ABOUT.

I love my job now and you can't put a price on that! I have heard "thank you" more times in the first month of school than I did in an entire year in an inpatient setting. I love the kids (they say ridiculous things) and I love the opportunity to teach a child about their own health. Benefits are great and very inexpensive, the pension and retirement are the same as a teacher.

There are still weeks when I look at my bank account and cringe a little but I am a good budgeter. I would rather be happy and poor than rolling in cash and too tired/miserable to enjoy it!

You posted this a while ago so hopefully you see this... I live in MD and I'm going to Nursing school soon. I'd love to be a school nurse for all the reasons you mentioned. Do schools in MD hire nurses with ADNs right out of school? Do they hire them as substitutes? Does your pay go up the number of years you work & your education like a teachers?

Thank you so much!

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I just interviewed for a elementary nurse job for a private school, pay is $40,000/ year in FL. 320 students.

Have 1 year experience as cardiac critical care and 1 year DoD school nurse (salary $55,000/ year for 450 students

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Specializes in School Health.

16-17 school year, received a raise $44k yearly (hourly, punch in/out) our system switched from salary to hourly for all employees, 12 month contract, but of course you don't get paid in the summer (2 mths). AZ and it's a charter school.

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Man, I'm totally being ripped off!! I mean I knew it, but to see other school nurses' salaries compared to mine is scary. I'm embarrassed to admit how much I make, but here goes. It's around 27K a year, total.:( I get paid $20/hr, but the catch is I get paid unemployment in the summers, Christmas break, snow days if out a week. If I run out of vacation hours, which happens really quickly, and we miss a day for teachers in service or something, then that's a day where I don't work and don't get paid. My school has almost 700 students, one of the other girls has 1000 students at her school. Basically, I work there to get a lot of days off with my child and to be near her school. I wish they would make us close to teacher pay because long breaks are a real financial struggle. We're constantly told how much we are needed, but if that's the case, why aren't we appropriately compensated?!

Sorry. I didn't know a rant was coming on until I started typing.

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Hangin'On,RN, that's how our schools treat the "nurse aids". In Pennsylvania, you are required to have one Certified School Nurse for every 1500 students. That's what I am and I get paid on the teachers' scale. The other nurses are considered aids and even though they are required to be an RN, they are only paid hourly and get around $18/hr. It is terribly unfair. I do have some responsibilities they do not like 504 plans, screenings, etc., but for the most part, they do what I do. They are all skilled nurses, they just don't get paid for it. We have 2 CSN's for the entire district and have "nurse aids" in the other buildings.
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Hangin'On,RN, that's how our schools treat the "nurse aids". In Pennsylvania, you are required to have one Certified School Nurse for every 1500 students. That's what I am and I get paid on the teachers' scale. The other nurses are considered aids and even though they are required to be an RN, they are only paid hourly and get around $18/hr. It is terribly unfair. I do have some responsibilities they do not like 504 plans, screenings, etc., but for the most part, they do what I do. They are all skilled nurses, they just don't get paid for it. We have 2 CSN's for the entire district and have "nurse aids" in the other buildings.

We do not have to have a Certified School Nurse in my county. Each school in our county has one RN. They used to have a few LPNs but they pink slipped them a couple years ago. The ones at the elementary schools have to do fluoride varnish too. Apparently, they didn't even let the nurses draw unemployment before I was hired.

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$48,000 a year. Located in Florida.

Elementary school with 350 kids/40 staff.

I have 1 year cardiac critical care experience and 1 year school

nurse experience.

Will get to $50,000 after 1st year and then a 3% raise every year after. I am happy with that!

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Starting my 3rd year as a school nurse. I have been an RN for 13 years now. 11 years total working with kids.

Missouri

High School-About 900 kids

Work hours 7-3

Paid medical and dental but I goofed and missed the deadline for health screenings so I have to pay $30 a month.

Close to $54,000 a year. Paid year round, summer off.

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