What city do you work in and how much do you get paid hourly?

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Also, how much do you get paid for various differentials?

Specializes in ER/UCC, ICU.

South Louisiana

32.00 hourly, 10% after 6pm, Sat and Sun premium 25% , double time holidays, 5 weeks annual leave and 2.5 sick leave from date of hire

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Specializes in ER/UCC, ICU.
19 hours ago, starmickey03 said:

I live in Phoenix and have applied to IHS and the VA. The IHS hasn’t updated my status and I applied 3 months ago and the VA status says referred but I haven’t heard anything else. I desperately want to get a fed job. I have an upcoming interview with the BOP in San Diego but I’d love to stay where I’m at. Fingers crossed that they’ll contact me for an interview.

Be patient with the VA it can take awhile. I believe it took me 6 months before hearing anything. The fact usajobs still has a status is great ! Hope you all the best

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Specializes in Community Health, Med/Surg, ICU Stepdown.

$60 per hour just outside SF Bay Area, 12% for PM and 15% for nights. Some friends make up to $100/hr, plus double time on holidays and 2.5 times if they work extra weekends! But most of us still live in one or two bedroom apartments... or with our parents. I started as a nurse in Little Rock, AR for $19/hour with no night shift differential, and easily saved enough for a down payment on a nice house. Life is crazy!

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7 hours ago, LibraNurse27 said:

Some friends make up to $100/hr

How? Is that available through Kaiser only?
PM me if you’d rather.

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Specializes in Community Health, Med/Surg, ICU Stepdown.

Yep at Kaiser. I like working at the county hospital better. But Kaiser does pay very well, at least in Bay Area

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On 12/27/2019 at 3:04 PM, BAN said:

Be patient with the VA it can take awhile. I believe it took me 6 months before hearing anything. The fact usajobs still has a status is great ! Hope you all the best

Thanks! I’ve been hearing from lots of people how slow they move. I’ll be patient.

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On 8/11/2019 at 9:24 PM, Quota said:

New grad in DC Metro, starting pay $27/hr. Evening diff $3, night diff $4, weekend diff $4. Surge bonus for picking up surge approved shifts is $360 bonus and time and a half for the shift. New grads also get a raise at 6 month mark (which I’m just hitting). I’ll get another raise soon when I get chemo certified.

Charge gets $1/hr

Preceptor gets $1/hr

This is crazy to me since DC is one of the most (if not the most) expensive areas in the country to live in. Pay should be SO MUCH HIGHER.

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Dialysis.
3 hours ago, MHDNURSE said:

This is crazy to me since DC is one of the most (if not the most) expensive areas in the country to live in. Pay should be SO MUCH HIGHER.

Boy do I have to agree. The post you referenced said $27/hr base pay in metro DC. That's crazy low!

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Seems like nurses on the East Coast are right around $30 an hour with no experience. I work at a level 1 trauma center in a rural part of Western, PA and new grads usually start around $26.30/hr. and about 27.60/hr for a new grad starting on a step down unit.

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Specializes in Oncology, OCN.
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This is crazy to me since DC is one of the most (if not the most) expensive areas in the country to live in. Pay should be SO MUCH HIGHER.

I’m not in DC itself. Working in DC pays a bit higher. The DC metro area covers northern VA and southern MD.

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Specializes in ED, ICU, Prehospital.
On 8/22/2019 at 7:19 AM, medsurgRNCali said:

Seems like Nor Cal is the cash cow!! I know cost of living is pretty high there, tho.

No---you aren't being told what the actual costs are to work at any hospital in California.

1. Union dues are automatically taken out. $120/mo

2. Taxes of 13% for state and federal doesn't take into account all of the other expenses you have---so you are in a high tax bracket from the get go--so your after tax income is approximately 45-52% of what you gross.

3. Housing costs are double and sometimes triple that of other states, along with property taxes if you own.

4. Parking fees. They automatically take parking out whether you use it or not. Some places have >$150/mo for parking.

5. Commute times double and triple gas expenditures. If you want to live close in to your work--high rent and high crime if it's inner city--like UC Davis or anything downtown SF. Commute times can be anywhere from 1 hour to 3 hours one way. Time is money, remember.

NoCal is not the cashcow you think it is. There are also other considerations---such as the wildfires, lack of water resources, immigration problems (free healthcare when immigrants do not have insurance), every single item is taxed at the grocery store and else where (adding yet more to your output burden), water costs are more than some people's car payments....

I could go on.

There is no equal balance for "nice weather" and "I can golf and wear shorts all year long". I like eating and I like having a nice savings account. I do not want to spend all of my hard earned money getting out of the city so that I can have a little R&R. DEFEATS THE PURPOSE.

The retirement system in California is $1TRILLION dollars in a hole. YOU, tax and pension contributor donkey---are paying for the present retirees. When it comes to be your turn? You ain't seeing that money again. Period.

Some employers there have caught on and "auto deduct" a certain percentage of your pay to "help you" save for retirement. Read: We will take the money for our pensioners, whether you like it or not. You cannot opt out.

The "ratio laws" are a joke. The Charge RNs already know how to game that--they fudge the ESI. You get 4 criticals that are supposedly now 4 lower acuity patients. You work harder, risk your license more and are abused continuously---for basically a few dollars more than you might make in a decently run non-union hospital elsewhere.

The wildfires have made breathing next to impossible. The heavy metal poisoning in the entire mid valley from rice growing (such a water intensive endeavor...it's amazing that nobody notices that regular people have no water...yet the rice growers get all the water they want)---goes airborne when the fires torch the valley every year. Displacement of those people---where do you think that they go? They all just leave? No. Yet another reason rents are so high--people displaced from fires, tax hikes and job losses all flood into "more affordable" areas---driving wages down and rents up.

California is a hel#hole---you couldn't pay me 5 times the amount I made there for a year---to go back.

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Specializes in ED RN and Case Manager.

Central Kentucky (with a lower COL than many areas).

Hospital RN

20+ years RN experience

$38.86/hr

15% shift diff

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