Starting salaries for new nurses

talaxandra · Jun 13, 2010

No worries :)

There are a couple of new nephrology units springing up - Knox has recently (9/12 or so ago) opened an inpatient unit, too, though no transplants :) And the heart/lung transplants certainly get more publicity at the Alfred than kidneys, especially since RCH started sending their patients there for hearts + lungs.

Buran09 · Jun 13, 2010

Thank you, Karenmaire, Talaxandra! Will it be accurate to say that the RN with 4 years of experience earns 75000/year on average? I was looking into military nursing, but it seem like the make about 60000/year. What's the job market look like right now?

rozymisty · Jun 14, 2010

Back in 2008 as a new graduate RN I was getting about $25 in a private hospital base rate. I didnt do much shift work there.

When I moved to Qld Health, I started on $26, and now with the new agreement, and this being my 3rd year, I get $30.1184 an hr..well if we get paid right haha.

For night shift, the penalty rate is 20% (not worth it), saturday is 50% and sunday is 75%. Public holidays vary, there are 3 days that are double time, the rest are like 1.5.....

best check with your local nursing union to find out.

talaxandra · Jun 15, 2010

Thank you, Karenmaire, Talaxandra! Will it be accurate to say that the RN with 4 years of experience earns 75000/year on average? I was looking into military nursing, but it seem like the make about 60000/year. What's the job market look like right now?

Maybe, if the 4th year RN was working weekends and agency.

I'm a CNS, with around 18 years post-registration experience and get a Masters allowance - working most weekends and a lot of nights plua the occasional shift in charge, I made just over $90K pre-tax last year, making me the highest paid nurse on my ward. This year I've done mostly days and had at least one weeeknd off a month, which has made a significant difference.

You can make a good living in nursing, but if that's ytour main reason there are other options...

Buran09 · Jun 17, 2010

You can make a good living in nursing, but if that's ytour main reason there are other options...

I currently practice in California, and the pay here is pretty good. I just want to estimate how the quality of live (buying power) will change if I move to Melbourne.

achilles82 · Jun 17, 2010

These are the public hospital rates i don't think penalty rates are included in there.

http://nursefinder.com.au/IFN/index.php?page=pay-rates-victoria

http://www.nurseinfo.com.au/current/conditionsandsalaries

boywork · Jun 23, 2010

In Sydney Australia

mmm well you can make heaps if u put the hard work and very long hours, the difference in pay is huge if i worked my full time hours base rate of pay is $35.00 per hr. i would gross $3500 per fortnight, if a did the same work with an agency i would gross $5000 per fortnight.

ianina · Jul 1, 2010

35$ per hour? That's a lot of money :)

ceridwyn · Jul 1, 2010

Yeah, this is usually for a nurse with 8-10 years experience.

cioman94 · Aug 7, 2010

Yeah, this is usually for a nurse with 8-10 years experience.

ceridwyn,

i have a basic understanding about salary sacrificing, like, that it entails some sort of listing and computing of expenses which are acceptable for salary sacrificing (someting like that, as far as i understand the scheme)...

nonetheless, does a hospital which is offering such scheme to its employees normally would take the effort to assist and advice its employees on how to go about it?

or they just dont care and just let the employees suffer a mental problem on how to prepare/compute?

thank you for your usual help...

K+MgSO4, BSN · Aug 7, 2010

I rang the company that my hospital has their salary sacrifice with and made an appointment with their on site consultant. Got an email before hand about what documents to bring in and we went through it all together.

ceridwyn · Aug 8, 2010

If you are not an Australian citizen, salary sacrificing may not be the go, I am not an accountant but you are not entitled to the first 6-7000 tax free etc. May end up paying tax later on.

You can always join salary sacrificing at any time in your employment, it is not a prereq, just say not interested, all you do is save 50-60 a week as a fringe benefit and do not pay tax on it as it is withdrawn from your gross pay, sent to the salary sacrificing company that your employer has, this gets sent back to you a few days after payday with a few dollars missing for their fees. Meanwhile your employer has taxed whats left.

Do not have nightmares about it as I said you can join in a couple of months after working or 12 months, until you find out from others if it is the right thing to do for a non-citizen.

As for instructions, all hospitals I know all belong to different companies that actually organise this scheme as they are not part of the hospital and give you phone nembers, websites and some of the bigger hospitals actually have their salary sacrificing company on-site, so you can speak to them anytime as Karen has said.

Now as for superanuation, you have no say in that, you employer actually has to cough up for this outside of your pay and send the money to a superanuation fund that you approve, your employer will offer you several, I am with one of the health ones.