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 Urgent Care.

The US needs to do better and pay their nurses so much better. I’m in the Bay Area (CA) and I am close to $30 as an MA. My sister in law was a CNA making $32 at a nearby hospital. I’m praying and hoping for higher wages across the country for the hardworking nurses who deserve so so much more than they are currently receiving. ?

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7 yrs exp & BSN. I was working at a Charleston SC suburban hospital - got bumped up from $29.63 to $30.25 before moving this summer. Prior to that, I also worked at same hospital system in home health, making $38 per visit. Moved to DFW and hoping pay is better here.

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Specializes in Managed long term care.

I work in NYC as a care manager at an insurance company. I make $54.00 an hour which is average for my job in NYC.

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On 9/5/2019 at 2:11 PM, Dani_Sanchez777 said:

The US needs to do better and pay their nurses so much better. I’m in the Bay Area (CA) and I am close to $30 as an MA. My sister in law was a CNA making $32 at a nearby hospital. I’m praying and hoping for higher wages across the country for the hardworking nurses who deserve so so much more than they are currently receiving. ?

Yes, overall, compensation for nurses and nursing staff should be better. I've been paid a gamut of different ranges across different areas where I've lived. Really, the cost of living needs to be considered. Growing up, my best friends family lived in the Bay Area, we lived in the Midwest. Houses just like ours in the Midwest (at the time $150K-200K) would have easily been $1.5-2.5M in the Bay Area. I bought relatively recently in central NC and a house like mine (around $200Kish) would be substantially more expensive elsewhere (Bay Area, Chicago metro, etc).

I used to think that a specific dollar amount would make me happy. It won't. What I'd like to see improved, more than wages, is the working conditions. Appropriate staffing. Work culture. Not being penalized for calling out when you ARE sick. Better benefits for parents/family obligations.

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Specializes in Cardiac Telemetry, ICU.

$29.95 base pay. $4.40 night shift differential. $1.50 weekend differential. Our pay is supposed to increase in January too to keep up with the surrounding hospitals.

1 year of experience in cardiac tele north of Houston, Texas.

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On 8/29/2019 at 1:56 AM, NickiLaughs said:

Inland Northern California * I have 10 years experience

78$ an hour benefitted position

4$ an hour when I’m charge

I’m in a clinic but if you are in the hospital these are additional:

swing dif 7$/hr

nights dif 12$/hr

i will say if i had other career options I would walk away in a heartbeat.

This pay is wayyy better than mostly anyone on this thread! Would you share why you'd leave?

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Specializes in Emergency, Trauma, Critical Care.
11 hours ago, Vicky2RN said:

This pay is wayyy better than mostly anyone on this thread! Would you share why you'd leave?

I work for an organization that most definitely places numbers before all else and our union is strong to the point that incompetent nurses are safe in positions when they have no business being a nurse in the first place.

Unfortunately its becoming the trend and I think I'd have to leave nursing all together. I love nursing though and keep hoping our unit gets some leadership to lead us in a positive direction.

I am very blessed to make what I make though, and I'm in an affordable part of northern california. Well at least it was 5 years ago when I bought here.

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On 9/10/2019 at 6:41 PM, NickiLaughs said:

I work for an organization that most definitely places numbers before all else and our union is strong to the point that incompetent nurses are safe in positions when they have no business being a nurse in the first place.

Unfortunately its becoming the trend and I think I'd have to leave nursing all together. I love nursing though and keep hoping our unit gets some leadership to lead us in a positive direction.

I am very blessed to make what I make though, and I'm in an affordable part of northern california. Well at least it was 5 years ago when I bought here.

Wow, that’s interesting

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Specializes in Peds ED.

Syracuse, NY. $31.85 base rate for 6 years FT experience and a BSN. 20% weekday off shift and 30% weekend off shift differential. This is a unionized hospital. The cost of living here is lower than the podunk town in PA I moved from and my salary is higher so it’s been a net gain. I have good benefits too.

We also get a geographical differential that’s an additional $1.65 an hour that shows up separately so I always forget to calculate that in.

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Glad to see these impressive differentials. Wasn't so great back in the day, even adjusting for inflation. Right as I was leaving, they were even trying to backpedal on things like holiday differentials and nights/weekends.

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Specializes in Peds ED.
4 hours ago, Horseshoe said:

Glad to see these impressive differentials. Wasn't so great back in the day, even adjusting for inflation. Right as I was leaving, they were even trying to backpedal on things like holiday differentials and nights/weekends.

I worked at a hospital once where the night shift diff was $0.50 an hour. Their pay rate was in general very low for the area. The only way they could keep night shift staffed like that was to only hire in to night shift which meant the experience balance at night was especially bad.

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