What is ur average 2 week take home pay?

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1.Type of nurse?

2. How many hours u work per week?

3. How many years of nursing?

4. What Shift: Day, Evening, nights, or weekend only?

5. City and State

6. Average 2 week gross pay

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I signed on to get support and to see what others are going through...it's sad to see so many catty and self-righteous remarks! I'm with Canada! If nurses would just stick together instead of trying to place blame and look down on others we would all benefit! Yah! to Canada!

Forgive those people. They want to look good , even on this website where nobody knows them. They want to be proud of themselves and that wonderful grammar they have. Well, they are trying to be unique- just like everyone else.

As for California, the average salary here is $ 24 an hour for a new grad, some hospitals pay double time for the 4th 12 hour shift and beyond. Unfortunately,I am still in school and can not give you more information.

Good luck!

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Hi

Here in New Zealand we have finally managed to get pay parity with Highschool Teachers and the Police. It took years and a few strikes to get it. Our pay here is OK but I think after 3 yrs of study and a big student loan to pay off we should get more.

We will be getting the last 7% increase to vastly improve our hourly rate starting 1st of July.The union is back at the bargining table to get an increase as we speak.

We get paid extra for night shift, (10.45pm -07.15 am not sure how much.) and we get time and a 1/4 for Saturday and time and 1/2 for Sunday. Double time for public holidays and a day in liue to have a holiday later on full pay.

My hourly rate is $22.13 NZ dollars. I am an RN and have been working for 5 1/2 yrs for the same hospital. In a city with a 100,000 population.

I work on a surgical ward. We have up to 30 patients and each shift there are 6 nurses working at different levels. We work 8 hour shifts. We are a teaching hospital so we have students from time to time in 3 week blocks. So they are preceptered by the ward nurses. We have a ward manager who works Monday to Friday 8am to 4.30 pm and we have Health Care Assistance nurses who work 6 hours in the morning and hopfully the evenings to help with personal cares like showering and replenishing stocks like syringes, vomit cartons, tooth mugs, sterile H2O and saline for meds.They also are an extra pair of hands when needed by the RNs. They are a Godsend.

I love my job. But I need to be paid enough to be able to plan for my retirement. I don't pay health insurrance, but I do have Life insurrance, a mortgage, home, contents and car insurrance. My only out goings from my pay before I get it are income tax and nurses union fees. My pay fortnightly veries between 1,300 to 1,450 NZD.

I hope this is of interest to you. Please feel free to ask questions.

Joce

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Hi guys! Great forum!

I'm a student nurse in the UK. For the record, my grammer is ecxellnet when writing important stuff like essdays or leggal documents. but for now it's surely just about communicatin innit? U kno it! :wakeneo:

I intend to work in the States as a travel nurse as soon as possible after I graduate. I am very interested in getting an accurate idea as to what my earning potential will be. But so far I have had difficulty in obtaining reliable information in this regard. I would be very appreciative if any US travel nurses could provide info on what they earn as a reality check - gross figures would be better. I have lived in the States before so can calculate personal deductions. In return i could 'come out of the closet' and disclose my student nurse financial profile for some comic relief!

Surely earning potential is an important factor for anybody to consider when making career/job choices? Wouldn't it be naive or foolish to not do so? I have heard that travel nurses can earn $80K to $120K per year with free accommodation, no utility bills and occasional sign-on bonuses? Sounds good to me. That is certainly more appealing than working in the UK for £20,000 per year! To expand on the picture: taxes are much higher in the UK, a dollar buys (on average) what a pound does, gas is a fifth of the price in the US... Thus a £20,000 UK salary would equate in real terms to about $15,000 maximum in the US. Don't quit your day job... It is common knowledge that UK nurses are underpaid. MacDonald's Managers are paid more... Go figure.

So does my decision to maximise my earning potential make me a 'mercenary nurse'?? Does it mean that I have no heart, do not truly care and am only in it for the money? Of course not. It's kind of personal but I care deeply whenever I am priviledged enough to be involved in caring for a fellow human being. Nurses are surely capable of doing the job properly, excellently, with real passion, compassion, empathy and mindful attentiveness whatever the £$ situation. I enjoy nursing so much I would do it for free - and have done in certain ways several times. But I believe nurses deserve to command a decent earning potential for the highly valuable skills they offer. What can be the problem with that?

:heartbeat

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I have been a nurse for almost 30 years. At max pay right now $48.00/hr. I work three 12 hour shifts from 7pm-7am. $5.00/hr. night differential. Also we have a clinical ladder and I am level 3 which is another $3.00/hr. I work in a hospital NICU in Massachusetts. Yes my pay is good since I made under $5.00/hr when I first graduated in 1977. It takes time to get to where I am at my hospital (about 10 years to max pay).

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Travel nurses in Calif make $55 hr. So far that is the best I have found and I hace been traveling since Oct. 04.

Thanks very much for the info! Didn't see your post before I put my query in.

Did ye hear about the panda who eats shoots and leaves? Was he still hungry, how many got wounded and where did he go to?

Grammer cops will be enforcing commas and apostrophes from now on in this thread. Wear watchin you...

:lol2:

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FREEZE PERP! Reach for the sky and keep your dangling participles up. Put your over-used cliches' and poor spelling where I can see em. You goin' downtown!

And spit out that young! Bad nurse.

:rotfl: :roll ROFL! MY SIDES!

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I am an Lpn in West Virginia for 15 years,I worked on Telemetry for 14 years ,I have been in the ER for a year,I make 1200 every two weeks.

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I think most people are under the impression that most nurses make about fifty thousand a year to start. If the gross pay is significantly less than that, we all would want to know. Years ago, they used to pay "new" nurses a LOT less than they paid those with one or two years "experience" although I do not think (I am not there yet) they have such a large discrepany now. Many nurses with the BSN expect significantly higher pay than technical RN's receive, but in the hospital setting, I have heard that the difference is only a few hundred dollars a year. These are the questions that I have, and I bet a lot more students have these same questions.

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Dear rngreenhorn

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Geriatrics.
FREEZE PERP! Reach for the sky and keep your dangling participles up. Put your over-used cliches' and poor spelling where I can see em. You goin' downtown!

And spit out that young! Bad nurse.

:lol2: Oh I love it! I have really enjoyed, every catty, sarcastic remark, every put-down and comeback, and every "sheesh" in this thread. It's been so much fun I had to give it a 5 star rating.

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Many nurses with the BSN expect significantly higher pay than technical RN's receive

I'm sorry, can you explain to me what a "technical RN" is? I've never met such a person.

:angryfire

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1.Type of nurse? LPN

2. How many hours u work per week? 40

3. How many years of nursing? 13

4. What Shift: Day, Evening, nights, or weekend only? nights only

5. City and State Heber Springs, Arkansas

6. Average 2 week gross pay 900.00

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I hope that answered your question. Its not much but thats all they pay around here.

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