Starting Salary

kachoo414 · Aug 9, 2005

Acutally, the top paying hospital for RN's in Boston is Dana Faber, then Brigham and Women's. They are pretty close, but b/c the Faber is so specialized in Onc, they pay the best. Beth Israel is a salary based hospital which is pretty unusal. I think they run about $50,000 a year. Children's pays ~$23/hr. Mass General which is also Partners affilated like the Brigham, but not unionized, just got a raise and is now also $23/hr. Majority of hospitals in Boston have very compet. pay. I currently work at the Brigham which has treated my very well. The diffs are great too. I would recommend picking a boston hospital to work at based on if you like the floor/etc rather than pay since it all kind of works out to be the same.

Hi there.. The top paying hospital in Boston is Brigham and Womens, as it is a unionized hospital. Also look into New England Medical Center, and Mass General. Both pay well too. I work at one of the three. :) Good luck! Boston is a wonderful city to work in as a nurse.

RNstudentBrian · Sep 29, 2005

I had a friend that graduated this past may from my ASN program start at New England Baptist hospital at $24.95/hr + 7% shift diff. for nights/11% weekends. I work at Metrowest Medical Center in Framingham (20 miles west of Boston) They start new grads at $23.85 + 5% night diff.

Hope that helps.

Icare4all · Oct 6, 2005

Thanks for the info about Atlanta. I will be moving to Atlanta soon. I have been an RN for 4 years. What's a good hospital to work in Atlanta that provides quality care and pays well? Also computer order entry, no handwritting orders? Tell me about the commute? I will be living around Norcross. Please help if you can anyone. Thanks. :uhoh21:

Atlanta, Georgia. A friend of mine get almost 21 dollars. about 3-4 dollars for evening and night shift-differential. Most hospital here pay around $19-21.
Far away from Atlanta like in Rome Georgia, they start only at 17.50.
Huh! Pay is low here. However, you can get apartment around Atlanta suburb around 600 dollars and a private room with bathroom in a house with 400-450 dollars. Gas price is ok here. Just enough to make a living.

Marnaby · Oct 7, 2005

I work at Beth Israel on a cardiac floor. Started out here in April of 2004 as a new grad at $25.13/hr. I'm up to $28/hr now with my recent raise and market adjustment. The salary thing that they do really confused me when I first started here, but I finally figured the whole thing out.

For example if you work 40 hrs a week, you will be paid only for the 40. You don't clock in and out so you don't get overtime unless you tell your boss that you stayed over. Then if you work 36 hours one week and the next week you work 44, you'll only be paid for 40 hours in each paycheck.

They do pay overtime and time and a half for holidays. Hope this helps anyone who was looking for a place to work.

blueeyedgoose · Oct 22, 2006

Hummmmm, I don't see mentioned ADNs.

MuddaMia · Oct 22, 2006

Hummmmm, I don't see mentioned ADNs.

Pardon??

DolphinRN84, MSN, RN, APRN, NP · Oct 22, 2006

I just had an interview at Beth Israel this past Thursday, and yes they are still salaried, but the pay for new grads is 24.75 an hour....i don't understand the PPC system they are on..since they don't have shift differentials anymore. If anyone has an idea or simpler way to understand it, feel free to post! I have the paper they gave me about it but after reading it i'm real confused...

EDIT: Actually PPC- prospective pay categories.

candyLPN2Be · Oct 28, 2006

IS This the rate for RN in masss? i live in nj , and as a new grad LPN i make $24.75 during the week 3 to 11 and 26.25$ weekend. I am in the process of moving to Mass to the North Shore area what kind of pay can i expect? and do you know any good LPN to RN school in north shore? Thanks in advance guys.

colter517 · Nov 8, 2006

IS This the rate for RN in masss? i live in nj , and as a new grad LPN i make $24.75 during the week 3 to 11 and 26.25$ weekend. I am in the process of moving to Mass to the North Shore area what kind of pay can i expect? and do you know any good LPN to RN school in north shore? Thanks in advance guys.

I know the communtiy colleges on the south shore offer bridge programs, so I think it's a good possibility the community colleges on the north shore do as well. I don't understand why Boston hospitals start their RN's at such a low rate. The nursing homes in my area (near cape cod) start LPN's at around $24 hr. When I went to nursing school I did most of my clinicals in Brockton and the RN's there were starting at $32/hr.

maledi · Nov 15, 2006

I work at MWMC FUH and they started me at 24.43 with 10% eve diff. and 15% night diff. Just started last week. Have worked there as a PCA for a year-really love it!

sunshine9 · Dec 1, 2006

I know the communtiy colleges on the south shore offer bridge programs, so I think it's a good possibility the community colleges on the north shore do as well. I don't understand why Boston hospitals start their RN's at such a low rate. The nursing homes in my area (near cape cod) start LPN's at around $24 hr. When I went to nursing school I did most of my clinicals in Brockton and the RN's there were starting at $32/hr.

I live in Cape Cod and most of the hospitals make around the same (for the most part) as they have mentioned above for the Boston Hospitals. I am still a nursing student but many of the new grads that I work with said that they started off at 24 and change at Falmouth Hospital and that it was one of the better paying hospitals on or near the cape. I am not sure what the other hospitals make, but that's what quite a few of them have said to me. I think Cape Cod Hospital might have a better starting new grad rate, but I'm not 100% positive.

The RN's that you talked to that had a starting rate of $32/hr. Were they new grads? Did that include differentials? If it didn't. I would love to know what hospitals they were.

gerry79 · Dec 1, 2006

Just accepted a new grad position at Beth Israel in Boston and the new rate is $25.75/hr plus $2.25 PPC (hard to explain) which everyone gets all of the time no matter which shift you work for a total of $28/hr.