Toronto Hospital Wages

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Hello, I'm planning to look for a job in Toronto as RPN, does anyone know what is the starting wage for RPN's in Toronto hospitals, and what hospitals specifically?

Also what hospital is better for new grad initiatve program?

Thank you.

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St. Joseph's downtown Toronto has the new grad incentive. Come to think of it, almost all big hospitals have it. Trillium in Mississauga, Brampton, Humber River, North York General, they all offer it.

The wages for RPN's start at around $25/hour at most hospitals. I have a few friends in the GTA hospitals making $27 as new-grad RPN's. There's also shift premiums, and overtime so you'll be making more if you work evenings, nights, and weekends.

To give you an idea of your monthly income, I just did my bestfriends taxes (I used to work at H&R Block, lol), and he is an RPN working evenings, full-time, and his income AFTER TAXES last year was $61,000. He's only been an RPN for a year and a half! That's working almost 50 hours/week with evening shift premiums, plus picking up some extra overtime here & there. He's only 23, so you can imagine that lifestyle, lol!

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Sorry but I made $40K last year working less than a .5FTE in much maligned Alberta and I think I had two OT shifts last year.

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She's asking about Toronto, not Alberta. P.S, move to Ontario, wages are so much better here. Your not getting paid anywhere near what you should be.

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what about starting wage for RN's in toronto or ontario?

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She's asking about Toronto, not Alberta. P.S, move to Ontario, wages are so much better here. Your not getting paid anywhere near what you should be.

Forgive me I'm confused are you a GPN, a PSW or a service aide?:idea: :confused: Your previous posts don't give us much to work from:

https://allnurses.com/canadian-nurses/help-transferring-schools-443001.html#post4009065

leads me to think you are still a student.

In other posts you are asking about working as a PSW.

For someone so new to their career, there is still alot to be learnt.:smokin:

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Thank you 2bNurse-88, u were very helpfull:)))

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what about starting wage for RN's in toronto or ontario?

Starting wage for RN now is $29 per hour.

http://www.ona.org/faqs.html

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I have a question for 2bNurse-88, I saw your postings from few years ago, u mentioned that North York hospitals pay $22/hr to RPNs, do you know is it all North York or just which ones (I think NY General is one of them).

Also you mentioned you work in nursing home, could you recommend which nursing homes pay more.

The reason I'm sooo interested in wages is that I already make over $21/hr working as PSW, and it would be very disappointing for me to work where I make lower than that or slightly the same, especially after I spent 2 years studying to upgrade my knowledge from PSW to RPN.

And I don't know if the HR departments would reveal me their starting wages over the phone.

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what do newly qualified registered nurses make in toronto/brampton area?

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what do newly qualified registered nurses make in toronto/brampton area?

Have a look here for that information: Cross Country Comparison Look for "Graduate Nurse" and "Registered Nurse" then look at the first tier.

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Humber River $28

GTA $ 28

Markham Stouffville hospital $26

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