What is your current LPN salary

angikat · Jul 17, 2014

I work LTC and have been an LPN 20 years. This is in KY. Base pay is $12/hr for new grads. I make only $16.35/hr. I got $0.50 for every 5 years experience which is $2. There's a $0.50/hr shift diff for 2nd shift and $1/hr night shift. We haven't had a raise in years but when I started there I got a couple raises. I have poor pay considering I have so much experience but that's how it is in this area. I know a doctors office that starts LPN's out at $9/hr. which is crazy! This low pay is a small part of the reason I'm back in school. Of course in my area CNA's only make minimum wage and CMA's start at barely over minimum wage.

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Moriah02 · Jul 21, 2014

What the what ^^^^ in my city those are wages for people without a degree at all. Let alone a nursing degree.

angikat · Jul 21, 2014

What the what ^^^^ in my city those are wages for people without a degree at all. Let alone a nursing degree.

I absolutely agree because this is what a lot of local factory workers make. Unfortunately, it is also what nurses are paid in my area. Sad but true. I hope when I complete RN school that I can relocate. The pay is so ridiculous and there's not a lot of opportunity for good experience in the area unless you do agency work and travel a good distance. :-(

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stronginchrist · Jul 21, 2014

From Alberta, Canada.....$25.17/hr plus $1/hr when I'm in the Charge Nurse position, plus $5/hr for nights and $2.75/hr for evenings and $3.25/hr for w/e's. Just graduated and started work last summer :)

Just been inspired

RedInScrubs, ASN, RN · Jul 21, 2014

Prior to getting my RN, I worked as a home health LPN for $17/hr, shift work with one family. I'm in southern Colorado.

sfreeman6133 · Jul 21, 2014

Jersey here I was offered a job with no exp at 26 an hr with full benefits lol I almost died that 3xs the amount I made as a cna

HollyLynn14 · Jul 21, 2014

Nj ... Hospice job $26 , a Per diem nursing home $22 , it kind of varies ... Does anyone know the LPN rate in Georgia? I'm looking to move there next year, NJ is getting too expensive

I have a friend in GA only making 21/hr, she was an LPN, now new grad RN (her experience has a PN didn't help raise her hourly rate at all, which is utter BS IMO. She makes what other new grad RNs make.)

busybri09 · Jul 25, 2014

New grad LPN, with no nursing experience making $18/hr in Northern Metro Area of Memphis, TN

mmtorrez89 · Jul 25, 2014

New grad lpn home health pediatrics in Phoenix Az...$22.50 an hour.

aweng78 · Jul 25, 2014

Nevada

Corrections $27/hr

3yrs experience

beetlebug424 · Jul 26, 2014

PA LPN 1.5 years experience pediatric home health $19.57/hr + $1 for nights + $1 for weekends

Iheartnursing, ASN · Aug 3, 2014

I work in a Doctors office in Central Maine the starting salary for an LPN is 17.50/hour. If I went back to a LTC facility I could make approx $20/hr. Agency $25 and up.... I have four years experience.