Wages - we are underpaid

Charlie409 · Apr 13, 2005

Dear Nurses,
would you please be so kind an e-mail me a rough description of the hospital you work in, how many years of experience you have and what your hourly wages are??? Please, our hospital is trying to enter the new mellinium now and modify the wages to current standings.
Please let me also know, how call is reimburst, it would help me a lot to build a case for management.
You do not need to give your name.
Please help
George

I work in upstate NY 250 bed/ 9 OR rooms

We are starting grads at 18.00, we have a pay cap and a clinical ladder.

I am maxed and at top level of clinical ladder I make 32.60 hour, that is tops you can make even after one-thousand years...no raises unless they are across the board. They would love to get rid of all of us "long timers"

call is $15.07 for an 8 hour shift, about a 1.88 hour, lol time and a half if called in.

We get no extra pay for certifications or precepting, we keep track of that and education and submit it to clinical ladder, which we have to do every year, in order to stay on the ladder.

Ali G. · May 5, 2005

I have been on OR RN for 1 year. My starting wage was $18.06 (just out of school). I then took on the clinical coordinator position for plastic/urology surgery and received another $1.00/hr. We also just received a 6% raise which brought me up to $20.20/hr. We only get $1.50 for on call and time and 1/2 for call-back. I work in a 180 bed hosptial Level II trauma center and we have 11 OR and do everything kidney transplants included. We get double time if we are asked to stay late when not on call

sparrow99 · May 12, 2005

i work in a 90 bed hospital. I have been a nurse for 20 years and make over $30 an hour as base pay plus benefits. I get $2.25 hour to carry beeper and time and a half if i am called in. i work in Fla.