Members are discussing various aspects of nurse practitioner (NP) programs, salaries, and job satisfaction. Some members are sharing their personal experiences with NP programs and salaries, while others are referencing reports on NP salaries by state and specialty. Additionally, there is a conversation about the perception of certain cities and the impact of location on salary and job satisfaction.
Hi everyone. I'm curious as to see what an actual paycheck (before taxes) looks like from an NP. I find salary websites to be not very helpful. So...
What type NP are you?
Where (state)(rural/urban) do you practice?
Are you independent or in a group?
How many years experience?
What is your before tax paycheck amount?
Monthly or bi-weekly?
Salary/hourly/other(explain)?
Avg hours on check?
What are the perks of your contract? (ie. PTO/vacation/bonuses)
I know this is very personal, but if you are able to provide input, I would appreciate it! I'm mainly interested also to see after the gov/operational costs etc have taken their share, how much are you left with?
Where (state)(rural/urban) do you practice? MN, urban
Are you independent or in a group? group
How many years experience? 5 years RN, will start first NP position next month
What is your before tax paycheck amount? $3,750
Monthly or bi-weekly? bi-weekly
Salary/hourly/other(explain)? salary
Avg hours on check? 40/wk
What are the perks of your contract? (ie. PTO/vacation/bonuses) 5 weeks PTO, 7 days + $4,500 CME, on-site parking, excellent health insurance benefits, 15k loan repayment with 3 year commitment, supportive environment with reasonable patient loads
Are you independent or on a group? Private, physician owned specialty practice
How many years experience? 4
Before tax paycheck amount? $4614 biweekly
Salary/other-Salary plus productivity plus annual bonus
Avg. hours on check? 72 bi weekly
Perks of my contract? PTO, $3000 + 5 days CME, all licensing/certification fees, mileage (if I work at another office other than the main one), very reasonable patient load, health/dental insurance
This definitely motivates me. I intend to start an FNP program soon, but market saturation in southern California scares me. This is definitely encouraging.
Where (state)(rural/urban) do you practice? MN, urban
Are you independent or in a group? group
How many years experience? 8 years RN, will start first NP position when I graduate in August
What is your before tax paycheck amount? $3,923
Monthly or bi-weekly? bi-weekly
Salary/hourly/other(explain)? salary
Avg hours on check? 40/wk
What are the perks of your contract? (ie. PTO/vacation/bonuses) 4 weeks PTO, $3,000 CME with paid days to attend conferences, discounted parking, health insurance benefits paid 100% for employee (reasonable for family with no copays if seen at hospital clinic), 6% 401a contribution (fully vested in 3 years)
What type NP are you? FNP - Nephrology Where (state)(rural/urban) do you practice? MN urban Are you independent or in a group? group How many years experience? 8 years RN, will start first NP position when I graduate in August What is your before tax paycheck amount? $3,923 Monthly or bi-weekly? bi-weekly Salary/hourly/other(explain)? salary Avg hours on check? 40/wk What are the perks of your contract? (ie. PTO/vacation/bonuses) 4 weeks PTO, $3,000 CME with paid days to attend conferences, discounted parking, health insurance benefits paid 100% for employee (reasonable for family with no copays if seen at hospital clinic), 6% 401a contribution (fully vested in 3 years) Just accepted today!!!![/quote']
That's a great salary for 20 hours a week! Sign me up!
I wish more people from California contributed to this thread. I make more than some of these salaries listed while working the bedside. I'm just hoping I can make around the same amount of money without working nights, weekends, holidays, etc.. This thread kind of makes me want to move out of the California and into a state with lower COL. Somewhere where I could still make 100k and purchase a home for 150k.
I think that getting this info out there will only help NPs. To many NPs accept whatever is offered which is usually way below what they bring into the practice.
It seems that the salaries that people are reporting on this thread are much higher than the averages reported by other NP salary surveys. So is it that people earning lower salaries are just not posting on this thread? Or are the salary surveys wrong? The national average is $40-50/hourly for NP's, nothing near the $75-100 that some NP's reportedly are making.
For the record, as a first year NP I started out at $45/hour which should go up to $50 in 2014.
pinkbubbles31
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What type NP are you? FNP
Where (state)(rural/urban) do you practice? VA urban
Are you independent or in a group? group
How many years experience? 3
What is your before tax paycheck amount? 3760
Monthly or bi-weekly? bi-weekly
Salary/hourly/other(explain)? hr
Avg hours on check? 80
What are the perks of your contract? (ie. PTO/vacation/bonuses) 1500 Cme, 21 days vaca, health, 401k,