School Nurse Salary?

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

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Scrolling through, it is so sad to see how little worth many school districts place on student health and safety.

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We just negotiated a raise. Im in CA but I only work .6- i currently make about 50k/year; if I was full time at 5 days/week/186 days/year- Id be making a bit over 80k

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Specializes in Medical Surgical Telemetry.

Just started my 7th year in a MA public elementary. $67,243. M-F 8:15-2:50. Sept-June. No weekends. No holidays. Summers off. MSN and DESE licensed as a school nurse. We are in current negotiations for a new contract, so I should be in the low $70's for next year. Best job I ever had.

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I'm paid $40k/yr for a private school in IL. They offered $40-45k based on experience and since I only had 2 years experience as a RN before starting they put me at the low end. I'm not certified...but working on it.

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I make $38k at a public school in AR. Left a $54K job in an oral surgery center, and prior to that an ER nurse. I wanted the stability for my kids and the time off with them after years of long hours and overnights and holidays and weekends. It's worth it but 3 months in i'm really having to learn how to budget!

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I'm in NY, just finished my 3rd year in a school, full-time, only nurse in the building...salary is 28k. Rad.

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Specializes in Home Health,Dialysis, MDS, School Nurse.

Here it is!

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Thanks for bumping this....my school is FAR from ideal in most ways, but I see that our pay is better (or less terrible?) than most.

I make about $59k for 187 duty days, 7:30-3:30 with a 40 minute lunch that I actually get to take probably 2/3 of the time. I have a master's degree though, which counts for more $ because we're on the teacher salary scale. This is my second year. We have a union and for that reason our district pays more than the average for my state (AZ).

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State is MS

I have been a school nurse 8 years and I am on a teachers scale. Sadly our teachers are the lowest paid. But I do make 35,500 a year. I work the same schedule as the teachers and same benefits so I is worth it to me.

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Specializes in School nursing.

7th year; on the teacher's scale finally.

190 days contracted. $73K. But I also work 7:30-4:30 (except Friday when I leave at 3:30) because charter school. I do get same retirement benefits as teachers.

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Arizona, private school, no weekends/holidays/summers plus fall, winter and spring breaks (equals an extra month of time off), benefits are NOT good (maybe one year I'll move to public school where benes are much better, but workload is much heavier...) = 48k

I'm a relatively new nurse - I did a new-grad program at a hospital 3 years ago and my salary was 50k, my second year I moved into school nursing and started at 42k, and this year I negotiated up to $48k. At my current school I get a cost-of-living increase each year (only about 2.5%, but better than nothing). I work PRN at a skilled nursing/LTC facility where I make $40/hr, and I do this a couple times each month on weekends ?

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Specializes in School Nursing.

Louisiana. Charter school. Aug-May. 7.5 hr days. $38k

The pay SUCKS...but the schedule and time with my kids is worth it

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