Starting Pay for New Nurses in Texas...need help!!!

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I have two job opportunities/offers and I need some major advice. One is for St David's South Austin Medical Center in Austin and the other is for Scott and White Memorial in Temple. St David's has told me they start new RN grads at 22.02 an hour. Is this typical? And Does any one know how much Scott and White pays new grad RN's? Scott and White is suppose to be contacting me this week with an offer...but I need to make a decision about St David's soon by today or tomorrow. St David's is for an acute med/surg telemetry unit and Scott and White is for a med/surg oncology unit.

I am from Washington state so the pay scale for RNs is much different and I am trying to get an idea about the Texas pay scale for new RNs.

Also, can any one give me any opinions on St David's vs Scott and White for starting out? Or living in Austin vs Temple? Or Telemetry vs oncology?

Lots of questions, but I am having a very hard time deciding so if anyone has any advice on any of these topics whatsoever, please send them my way!

Any difference of starting pay for new grads in Houston or Dallas?

Is it cheaper to live in Houston or Dallas??

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Specializes in Critical Care.

i will start at an hca facility in houston in progressive care and its $24/hr days and will be able to pick up extra shifts after orientation.

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Specializes in CCU, CVICU, Cath Lab, MICU, Endoscopy..
Any difference of starting pay for new grads in Houston or Dallas?

Is it cheaper to live in Houston or Dallas??

Medical center Houston new grads get more than that in internship programs....Dallas is definitely more expensive than Houston.

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Wow I'm very surprised at the hr wage for RNs in Texas. Back in 2008 I investigated new LVN and RN hr wage and was told by a nurse recruiter at a local hospital in the Bryan/College Station area RNs are paid $25 an hr and that was in 2008 I'm not sure what the the new pay is now in 2013 but I know that it's has increased at least for that hospital.

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I'm an LVN in Austin making 25$/hr. why are they paying RNs 22$/hr at st. David's??

My coworkers @ seton are getting 25-27$/hr as RNs.

Once I'm done with my RN degree I refuse to have lower pay!

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Does anyone know what the starting pay rate is for new grads at st. David's in Austin. I read that it was 22/hr in 2012, has it gone up since then?

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Does anyone know what the starting pay rate is for new grads at st. David's in Austin. I read that it was 22/hr in 2012, has it gone up since then?

No it has not changed at all.

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Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.

Supply and demand. When there are a ton of new nurses climbing over one another to get a foot in the door the hospital can do whatever it wants re: pay.

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Yea and don't come to Northern California - most new grads are climbing over each other for interships vs paying jobs because 95% of hospitals REQUIRE one year work experience. Supply and demand is killing the wages for new grads in my opinion.

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