What is a typical nursing salary in the Philippines?

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Hi,

I was wondering what the typical nursing salary for an RN is in your country? Here in Canada in my province they start new BSCN grads at 26.80$ Canadian per hour...according to the internet thats like 1161 pesos per hour...so in a typical 8 hour shift it would be around 9288 pesos per day. I've met alot of nurses from phils that would say that the salary is better in the usa/canada but i never found out any information. Ive always wanted to visit overseas and was just wondering this about the phillipines.

Thank you

Muhaha

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WHAT SALARY???!!!:o most of the new grad licensed nurses right now are working in hospitals for free (not because they want to but because they don't have a choice)...they are called "volunteer nurses". They have the same responsibilities and risks as staff nurses. Not only don't they have salaries, SOME are being charged for fees for them to be able to train in these hospitals.:icon_roll

Indeed. Sad to hear, but that is the truth. Even here in the small city where I live, such is the case.

Gov't hospitals even violate the labor code(ask your friends who are currently employed in gov't facilities, ask them when they became regular employees and you will be shocked).

No good staying here in the Philippines, but no choice due to retrogression.

I think most if not all would work elsewhere where salary and working/living conditions are better.

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some said a day salary in another country is a month salary in the phils... that's a fact!

about the government hospitals hiring fresh graduates, it is happening even without anyone to back you up. you will be trained in their hospital for 3-6 months and after that you can choose whether to stay employed with them or find work somewhere else.

:)

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i work in a private hospital and my slary is around Php4,500-5,000 a month :smackingf

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some said a day salary in another country is a month salary in the phils... that's a fact!

about the government hospitals hiring fresh graduates, it is happening even without anyone to back you up. you will be trained in their hospital for 3-6 months and after that you can choose whether to stay employed with them or find work somewhere else.

:)

paragraph 1 might apply to those living in the capital or elsewhere, where the salary is higher(to those who earn). for people living in the province like me, it's not a month, but a year's salary.

regarding paragraph 2, good if it doesn't go beyond 3-6mos, but the sad fact is, it really does. i have friends who can testify to this. they are working in the province(away from the national capital region).

simply shows the lack of concern by the government for nurses; all that they do is complain about brain drain without instituting measures to alleviate it. they cannot blame why most, if not would want to migrate elsewhere.

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I'm not sure if any of here heard of the issue of oxygen consumption here in the Regional hospital in Bacolod/Negros Occidental/Region 6, where the oxygen consumption is greater than that of PGH in NCR/Manila...Good if it was really used for the patients, but the problem is, it didn't...The ones who benefited from it where the "corrupted ones".

Hope the new team that they(Dept. of Health/DOH)sent would make sure that such a crime/evil deed wouldn't happen again...

This is only one of the many bad things being done by corrupt people, by "abusers", by people who make themselves rich at the expense of national poverty.

I'm already off-topic here, hehe...

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i agree that nurses' pay in the phils. is poor but to say that a day's salary of nurses in the us is equivalent to a month or a year's salary of nurses in the phils. is not quite correct. don't forget to factor in the cost of living (taxes, too!!!) wherever these salaries are earned. when you work and live in the u.s., you spend greenbacks and if you live in the phils. you stretch your hard-earned peso. remember, too, that there is an endless list of services and bills to pay to make your life manageable in the u.s. case in point--child care. you pay as much as usd15/hour when this service can be had for free and con amor back home.

phil. salary standards for nurses is low considering the cost of living and wages of other occupations in the country. on the flipside, every dollar you earn is matched by hours of conscientious and competent service to well-informed patients away from your loved ones.

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Im a 4th year nursing student and i felt so sorry for the pinoy nurses!!! my family is spending so much for my tuition!!! and i dont know if i will be able to pay then back when i work someday!!!

Im scared!!!!

No wonder most competent filipino nurses are in the US and UK!!!

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After I graduated and passed the local board exams, I applied in a tertiary hospital, passed the exams and interviews then was offered P6,000.00 / month to work as an O.R. nurse . . I had expected it but it was kinda hard to accept . . I then applied in a private ambulance services company and was earning P18,000.00 / month (w/ overtime) . . thrice of being what is being offered in the hospital . . obviously, nurses aren't getting paid enough in our country . . so nobody can blame us if we search for the "greener pastures" that is most likely we have the chances to be into . .

I'm in Saudi Arabia now working as a paramedic and waiting for my ATT for me to try my luck for the NCLEX . . if I stayed in the Philippines, I wouldn't be able to save money for such kind of nurse's salary . .

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this is a very SAD thread..

My salary is even more depressing..

P8,000/month

:(:stone

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ei strab tell something about your previous job, which is private ambulance services company.. thanks!

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8k a month? thats quite low. I am a fresh grad and Im not willing to work in a hospital here in the Philippines Im vying to work in Saudi as a stepping stone for my employment in the US/CANADA, currently Im working in a call center, im earning 18k a month NET.

My uncle, a priest, scolds me for not working here as a nurse, he states that nursing is a VOCATION and not about BIG salary...oh well sometimes i hate myself for being so selfish. but hey why not help others and at the same time earn big...hehe. just my two cents.

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i agree that nurses' pay in the phils. is poor but to say that a day's salary of nurses in the us is equivalent to a month or a year's salary of nurses in the phils. is not quite correct. don't forget to factor in the cost of living (taxes, too!!!) wherever these salaries are earned. when you work and live in the u.s., you spend greenbacks and if you live in the phils. you stretch your hard-earned peso. remember, too, that there is an endless list of services and bills to pay to make your life manageable in the u.s. case in point--child care. you pay as much as usd15/hour when this service can be had for free and con amor back home.

imagine earning $26 an hour take home pay(taxes insurances etc excluded). and you are paying your baby sitter $15 an hour for the time that you are working. so you actual money left will be $11 plus what ever your significant other will earn daily.

lets see...expenses: utilities, rent/mortagage, car payments(if you work all shifts - you will need a very accessible and safe form of transportation), phone bills(cell phone for easy accessibility to you), if you live in a northern state, you will need clothes for all four seasons, gas money. the list goes on and on. lets not even forget the money you need to pay for your debts incurred coming here.

so how much will be left for food?

when filipinos back in our country say that nurses here are rich, they have a lot to learn.

phil. salary standards for nurses is low considering the cost of living and wages of other occupations in the country. on the flipside, every dollar you earn is matched by hours of conscientious and competent service to well-informed patients away from your loved ones.

the patients here are quite well informed and can make a living hell out of your 12-hour shift work. you are always giving 110% to a profession whose only permanent and solid thing is change. dont be surprised but there are a lot of responsibilities that nurses are assuming these days that are proving to be costly in terms of legal expenses. (examples: checking medications - if the attending md prescribes restoril in the orders of a patient and 6 hours later, the resident after speaking to that same patient writes temazepam to be given to the patient at night. you didnt catch it because you did not know that one was generic and the other was a brand name..you will be partially accountable too, pain documentation and relating it to your pain seeking patient - if you don't document, and the pain medication during narcotic count are lacking..who gets blamed for a legal offence here called drug diversion? thats right, the rn - you and me)

the only consolation is the phone calls back home while spending on numerous phone cards.

the flipside can equally be less appealing.

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