Wage for LVN and RN

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I'm nursing student in US. How much average LVN and RN earn per hour?especially in CA? Any info is appriciated.Thank you.

Specializes in LTC, cardiac, ortho rehab.

i was offered 20.50 at a sub acute floor in so california but i ended up working in palm springs at a LTC for 19.50 with benefits.

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Specializes in ED, ICU/DOU/Tele, M/S, Gero/Psych.

Registry work tends to be more money as well, but with registries you also run the risk of not working steady hours. I've worked for a registry that paid 25 and change per hour on 12's and OT after 8. However, doesn't really help when you make your availability for 4-6 shifts a week and get cancelled for all but 1 of them. A nurse straight out of LVN school here in california with no IV/Phleb cert would probably make around the stated 17 an hour however, a condition of your employment would be that you get IV/Phleb certed within like a month or two. Also a good idea to get EKG certed, ACLS/PALS certed, unless of course all you want is to work in a SNF, TCU or rehab, then it won't really matter, but for all of your acutes, they'll want the certs.

Wayne.

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Specializes in OB/GYN.

I am in the Bay Area. I am currently a student, so I can not speak from personal experience. I have a friend who recently went from LVN ($28/hr) to RN ($55/hr). She works at a hospital in SF.

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In the SF bay area an agency will pay one nurse $15/hr, while paying another nurse $22/hr. Benefits, of course, only avail to person scheduled often enough to qualify for them.

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Specializes in Knuckle Dragging Nurse aka MTA.

Nothern California rates

Regisrties pay the LVN's $30 - $32/hr here...they generally don't take out taxes and offer no benefits.

Nursing homes = $23/ hr or so.

Department of Corrections pays their LVN's $19/hr - $24/hr.

I make $26.50/hr as an MTA (LVN/Peace officer) at the Dept. of Mental Health and will top out at $36/ hr in about 4 years. DMH is the best deal out there for an LVN in California. Plus the retirement is amazing.

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I get paid $22/hour with benefits as intake nurse in a Home health agency and $27/hour without benefits in a SNF.

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

In Massachusetts you get paid $15.00 for a new grad in LTC. Forget hospitals, they don't hire us in them.

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Which LTC in Massachusetts is paying 15?

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Ouch!

Go to the link, and look at the bottom of the page when it was updated. The rates indicated above, if I'm reading it correctly, would be as of October 2001.

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In Massachusetts you get paid $15.00 for a new grad in LTC. Forget hospitals, they don't hire us in them.

Where in Mass are they paying $15.00/hr??? I would say that's a rip off & I'd laugh in their faces.

The average I have seen 1st hand is around the $21.50/hr-$24.00/hr range.

I work per diem in home care making $26.40/hr for days & $28.25/hr for evenings/weekends..of course no benefits but it is per diem.....

I would never accept a job for $15.00 /hr as a nurse......:nono:

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I make $26.00 an hour..

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I am an LPN student in Alabama. What is the hourly rate in the Huntsville Alabama area for new grads

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