What is the average weekly take home in CA? (2019)

jjdd · Jun 2, 2019

2 hours ago, Argo said:
Unfortunately for you, Ned is right. Metro where. SF, LA, SAC, Redding??? They vary, widely. Every hospital can vary daily also, if they have a critical fast fill position it can skyrocket. There isnt a good answer for what you want. You can make from 1200 - 3000 a week. Do your own math and average that, it doesnt matter though because the average is way off.

3,000 a week take home (after housing and with insurance), med surg? Where?

NedRN · Jun 2, 2019

4 hours ago, jjdd said:
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Average pay for who, when, where?
I already clarified that.
Who? Med-Surg travel nurse.
When? Umm now?
Where? California (rural and metropolitan)

How much experience do you have? Which hospitals? What kind of patient census? How many travel assignments have you completed? Which metro area? Which rural area?

I don't have any information pertinent to you specifically. I've already thrown out a sample range. If you want specifics for you in a specific area at a specific time, call an agency. If you want bankable pay, an agency isn't going to help with that either. All they can do is tell you your gross pay. Just like any employer.

I'm done. Endless loop.

TitaniumPlates · Jun 19, 2019

On 6/2/2019 at 2:12 PM, jjdd said:
3,000 a week take home (after housing and with insurance), med surg? Where?

Ok. Gonna jump in here.

What Argo and neda said is that you are a med surg nurse with a specific quantity and quality of work experience.

You have certain certifications. You don't have others. You have decent enough references but maybe not nurse manager references. You have never traveled before.

You want to travel to California. The bill rate for Sacramento med surg at a level 1 trauma center is different than the bill rate for med surg at a level none hospital 20 miles outside of Sacramento. Because the housing costs are different. The hospital's agreement with the travel company is different. The company itself is different than the 500 or so other travel companies that might get you in there.

As far as Argo saying he made between 1200 and 3000.

Argo is a highly specialized and vastly more experienced nurse than you are now. He has traveled for many years. So has ned.

Your compensation wont even come close to theirs. Not ever. Because you will always be less experienced than they are...they will always be ahead of you. If you plan on staying med surg.. your compensation is most likely the lowest in the industry...and your assignments the s#ittiest.

Is thus enough? How about I share my own info since you think ned and Argo are withholding because....well....because they're just these snooty highly paid greed monsters that just don't want to help you.

I am a highly specialized ED/trauma traveler with 5 years in. I have been to 8 states doing contracts in ca, or, ny, Wa, va, NC, vt, mn. I have cen, tncc, pals, acls, nihss, esi cert and a bajillion other things like ekg cert, phlebotomy cert, ultrasound iv/picc cert. I have 8 nurse manager references and a boatload of colleague references.

My pay in NC was TAKEHOME (and your stupid and I mean stupid assertion that anybody with 2 years of med surg and no travel experience could TAKE HOME $3000 is delusional) $1400 /week with my deductions jacked up and no insurance.

My TAKE HOME from one of the highest paying travel jobs in california... mid valley on sf bay contract hospital...$1900-2100 week depending on whether it was crisis or winter or summer rates.

Are you getting it yet?

You are not experienced. You have no real marketable specialty that is in demand (think OR, ER, ICU, cath lab, PACU).

What you want is what everyone wants. That idiot girl who posted her $19k paycheck for 2 weeks in your bank account.

That is delusional. She did something that is next to impossible...but you don't want to hear that. She was PRN. She worked the holiday and night shift differentials and worked an unsafe number of hours.

listen to me carefully.

TRAVEL NURSING DOES NOT WORK THE WAY PRN NURSING WORKS.

You are a hired gun for that facility and you do what they tell you when they tell you. You have no control over your overtime schedule if you even get any. You get NO SHIFT DIFFERENTIAL OR HOLIDAY PAY.

Are you getting it yet?

Last. You have zero idea of what any contract or company is going to pay you until you out sign up and negotiate. you think you have this vast experience and ability to command anything from them and they will dump you. You have hours to either accept or decline an offer...and you have no idea whether another one is on the heels of that one. You cannot be submitted to a hospital by multiple companies at the same time hoping to get better pay.

Are. You. Getting. It. Yet.

Then you have the nerve to ask, after literally accusing these very helpful advisors WHERE CAN I SNAG THAT HIGH PAYING JOB.

Yeah. Right.

Here is a good piece of advice.

Go sign your bada$$ med surg self up with 5 travel companies and submit all of your vast years of experience with your stellar references and hundreds of certifications. Tell them that you will only work in the high paying areas of California and Washington. Tell them that you want $2100-3000 TAKE HOME (NOT GROSS). With insurance and taxes taken.

Come back and tell us how that went.

TitaniumPlates · Jun 19, 2019

And btw.

That 3000 take home Argo mentioned is WITH THE HOUSING STIPEND INCLUDED.

Learn what constitutes a travel pay package before you alienate helpful people like Ned and Argo who are trying to educate you on the realities of travel.

There is the taxable rate and then the stipends are added on. The typical taxable rate can be from (since you love averages) $17/hr in Albany ny to $32/hr in San Fran. That is your taxable pay. That is what you report to the IRS.

Then you have housing. Depending on your location (again with the ranges and averages). 3000 /mo in San Fran to 750 a mo in Albany.

Can you do math? Then you will see that when you take a job in Albany you may actually take home more because the cost of living is lower and you can find cheap housing. San fran bay housing is 4000-6000 a month unless you bunk with another traveler.

Then you get to think about being cancelled after you already fronted the money for a short term rental. Your company doesn't pick that up. You are responsible for your housing.

Then you get to think about being let go. Because you are an absolute obnoxious a$$#ole to the staff because you believe you should be making $3000 a week with your housing already paid.

Then you get to think about how you have to duplicate expenses in your tax home because the IRS wants their cut.

Are. You. Getting. It. Yet.

momoneypls, RN · Jul 22, 2019

hi jdd,

I can try to give you some perspective:

In OC, a regular nurse earns 55-70/hr depending on experience and BSN/MSN. Housing is expensive, a room for rent is $1K/month, a studio apt is 1750.00 per month.

In LA, a nurse earns about 55-75$/hr, housing is about the same.

In SF, a nurse friend of mine makes 85$/hr, but spends 3K on a studio per month that is sooo tiny.

This isn't for travelers, but maybe it will give you some perspective. We earn more but housing is really expensive.