School Nurse Salary?

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

Not sure https://allnurses.com/what-school-nursing-salary-t503745/

We are also on the teacher's payscale - experience and education credits and even "continuing ed" hours are all factored in (if HR agrees it relates to our job!). It's still a big paycut when you first look at it, but honestly after taxes changed from being paid less, the difference isn't AS shocking as I thought it would be in California. It would be nice to be on a separate payscale to make it comparable to other nursing specialties, or even to the school phsychologists who start out around 70K fresh out with their Master's - a nurse with a Master's is still 20K behind that... It does seem like no one understands what we do or what we know, maybe that's part of it.

For those of you lumped in with cafeteria workers, etc., yikes! If that's the level of training it takes to be a nurse, why did we put so much time and money into our education!? And why are we trusted with all that we're trusted with?! I hope you guys can see a change while you can still benefit from it!

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NYCNURSE - my district payscales are available online to anyone - but nursing isn't mentioned anywhere. Maybe your district is the same, HR should know which scale you'd be on. I'd give a call :)

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Specializes in Currently: Certified School Nurse.

Just following up - I did see that the nurses in my county do indeed follow the teachers pay scale. The info is public and I saw that the nurse at my kids school makes $77k. I have no idea how's my years exp she has. This is in NJ.

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Specializes in Acute Care, CM, School Nursing.
I did the math.

In my district, a brand new teacher is paid 25% more than a year one nurse (there is NO accounting for previous experience, all nurses are paid on the first level).

Translation: I am worth 75% of a fresh out of school teacher.

BOO! :no:

This makes me so mad.

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Specializes in School nursing.
Just following up - I did see that the nurses in my county do indeed follow the teachers pay scale. The info is public and I saw that the nurse at my kids school makes $77k. I have no idea how's my years exp she has. This is in NJ.

Wow! I want her job! ;)

My school did last year, after my boss advocated for me, and got the school to switch me and the other nurse to a nursing scale different (and higher, not hugely, but higher) than the teacher's scale. I hadn't even asked for it, but she went to bat for me. Even though I still wish I could be paid more, of course, I don't forget when people do things like that. Makes me feel valued and appreciated.

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BOO! :no:

This makes me so mad.

Me too....

We are in a contract year and planning to ask for a bump in pay. I would LOVE any suggestions on how to approach this from you guys!

I want to say that we have a required educational level, as well as continuing education, and skill set that is not being reflected in our pay. Another nurse in the district was talking to our union rep who said that she had thought before that we are in the wrong union-- we are currently on the support staff contract.

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Louisiana, on teacher pay scale. 10 years experience as a nurse. ADN. 2 years experience as a school nurse and 2 years experience as a substitute school nurse. I have 2 schools, upper Elementary (3-5) 260 students and middle (6-8) 850 students. Right now I make approximately $46,000/year. I work 183 days. I am paid over 12 months. I get yearly raises, teacher retirement and full benefits. I also work PRN at a hospital. My PRN pay is $32/hour.

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KY -190 days a year, 7 hours a day, $14 an hour-LPN No summers, no holidays, no weekends.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Home Health, Hospice, School.

In Texas. Work 190 days/year. On teacher pay scale. Currently making $55k/yr. Not too shabby.

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Specializes in School Nurse, professor, OBGYN.

I am in TX, and I have my masters, been an nurse 11 years, and I will receive 54-57K. I start fall 2015

We work 8 hour days and 187 days per year

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Illinois. Work 8 hour days/180 days a year. Pay is $30,000. I work part time evening to pay the bills.

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I am in Texas. I have masters and gets a stipend for that. I have more than 20 years of nursing experience which includes school nursing. Gets 2% yearly of late. I work 187 days. I am not on teacher's pay scale any more. I believe that is better. I am at $62,000. Its not great for my experience and what I do but I live with it because of the other perks. Grateful because it will be summer soon and I will be home for at least two months.

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