What is ur average 2 week take home pay?

mytoon38 · Jul 11, 2006

Chioma829,

Sorry some people have to be so difficult! I didn't know that we had to be perfect to participate in these boards either....LOL! SOME PEOPLE!!!!! Well, here are the results from a not so perfect R.N!

1.Type of nurse? Travel RN

2. How many hours u work per week? 40

3. How many years of nursing? 1 year as a RN, but many as an LPN

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

5. City and State Philadelphia, Pa.

6. Average 2 week gross pay -I bring home about 1150.00 per WEEK, but I have a FREE 2 bedroom apartment ( I have a 2 bedroom b/c my hubby, daughter ,and 2 Chihuahua's travel with me!) and all the utilities are paid for by my company, even the cable! I'm not complaining! My company also pays for my health insurance, but I have no vacation or sick time.

kgkarma · Jul 11, 2006

I didn't say that. Maybe somebody else did, but I didn't. Sure, not everybody is going to qualify for everything ... that's the nature of financial aid. You've got to apply for a bunch of stuff, and a lot of it won't pan out but eventually, you can get results. I was just really surprized when people said there wasn't any financial aid for minorities.
Anyway ... sorry to get off topic ... back to the topic at hand.
Money, money, money ...
:typing

I must have missed the poster that said there was no financial aid for minorities. I think most people were replying to the poster that said that she didn't get financial aid because she was not a minority.

martiforlife · Jul 11, 2006

UMM make sure to mention that the reason San Fransico is so high is because the cost of living is also. It seems like a good paycheck, but your probably going to pay a chunk of change for a decent place to live, a couple grand that is....

Lorbun · Jul 11, 2006

Sacramento - Days - Med/Surg 34.00 hr. I only work 40 hrs. a pay period (every two weeks) and any extra shift I work I get an additional 15.00 hr extra shift bonus for helping out - pick up a lot of extra shifts :lol2: Hope my grammar is acceptable to all --haha with extra shifts I bring home between 1,300-1,900 and I love it!

suzy253, RN · Jul 11, 2006

Thanks for the warning officer. I certainly don't want to be hauled into the great allnurses grammar tribunal.
I know ignorance of the law is not a satisfactory excuse for breaking the law. But I truly was not aware of the "orifice" law. In the future I will endeavor not to utter or type the word "orifice" until properly licensed and qualified. From now on it's all "ass" for me!
For the record, I of course meant to type "I'm." I assure you, for this indiscretion, my editor will be canned post haste. I've no need for a proctology consult, and my chest size is a perfect 38C... well it once was a perfect 38C. Now, more like a 38L. They're not huge or anything; "L" is just the shape they seem to have taken with age. Come to think of it, my orifice (oops, I mean "ass") and chest both seem to be preparing for early retirement and heading South. But that is not the point.
I will, work, on my, comma, usage, Darn things, just mystify, me.
Cheers... (oh wait, do I need a UK passport for that word as well?)
:roll :roll

nick223 · Jul 11, 2006

Student nurse in UK

I get £440 per month bursary (free money). Plus a loan of about £100 per month. Tuition paid. Have to work part time to pay the bills. No allowance made in my bursary for my two children.

michelle95 · Jul 11, 2006

1.Type of nurse? Periop RN

2. How many hours u work per week? 40

3. How many years of nursing? 6 years LPN, 1 year RN

4. What Shift: Day, Evening, nights, or weekend only? 0500-1330, no weekends or holidays

5. City and State: Pensacola, FL

6. Average 2 week gross pay: Almost 1600 gross and about 1200 after taxes, insurance, short term disability, foundation, etc..

I may not make as much as some...but, NOT having to work the horrid floor MORE than makes up for it. I worked a cardiac floor last year and almost got out of nursing because of it.

lvs2nrs3535 · Jul 11, 2006

I thin the reason people may not want to answer is that those who seem overly concerned about what they will make sometimes tend to be a little more difficult to work with later in the future. It also gives the impression that you are going into the field for the money. If that is the case then there are much better paying jobs. I don't know if I am the only one who experienced this but during school there seemed to be a distinct group of people who had tried earlier careers and were not making the money they wanted. They then decided to try nursing as they were accepted into the program relatively easily and they heard the salaries were fairly good. Well at the facility where I work these people who are now nurses are always talking about where they could go to make more money, and how they are underpaid. These people also tend to get annoyed at not being offered overtime and when they are they always have some reason why they can't take it; unless it is a holiday then they have a reason why they need to trade with you to work this day. I am definitely not calling these people bad nurses it is just when you are working and someone is always talking about salary and refusing to stay extra time to chart because they are not being paid for it, this really takes a toll. In addition all the information you are looking for can easily be found on the internet.
As for your original question; where I work (in Canada) I started at 26.80$ an hour which includes education premiums, and there is overtime offered almost everyday off. On average I can take home 1750$ a paycheque. It may seem like good pay but these are 12 hour shifts which often easily become 13-13.5 and a night shift is like working a day and a half because the next day is wasted recovering from your night. If you're just looking for a high salary like I said you can find one in a variety of other professions

Some of us who are 'overly concerned' about the money we will make after nursing school are not just worried about how much we can make, it is more that we are worried about providing for our children, paying for a house, ect. ect. ect. I was very worried during school about the average pay. I am now a new nurse in Maine, making 23 an hour, working 3- 12 hour shifts a week. Also, although the information the original poster asked for CAN be found on the internet, I thought this forum was based on By NURSES, About NURSES, supporting each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It sure does seem that the money question ruffled a lot of feathers.

Oh, and I work my overtime when I can get it, I do my notes, offer to help others, and I LOVE my job. It would seem that a nurse who was doing all the things you are speaking of should be disciplined by management, no?

Motolady2001 · Jul 11, 2006

1.Type of nurse?

I am an RN with an associate degree. I work on the medical/surgical unit of the hospital.

2. How many hours u work per week?

I am scheduled for 36 hours a week. We work 12 hours shifts. We are supposed to get a 30 min., upaid lunch. We are also supposed to get 2, 15 min. breaks, which I never take. I am a new nurse and have trouble getting everything finished within my shift, so I am staying over an hour to two hours every time I work.

3. How many years of nursing?

I have been an RN for about a month.

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

I am still on orientation. I am working day shift which is 7am until 7pm (although we cannot leave until the end of reports and rounding at 7:30pm).

I will be working nights when off orientation.

5. City and State

Elkins, WV

6. Average 2 week gross pay

My gross pay on my last paycheck was: $1320.90

Thanks

CuttingEdgeRN · Jul 11, 2006

1.Type of nurse? Surgical RN (part-time)

2. How many hours work per week? scheduled 24, usually get talked into an extra shift every pay period, plus some call.

3. How many years of nursing? 20

4. What Shift: Days (one weekend a month)

5. City and State West Tennessee

6. Average 2 week NET: Bring home 1,500

punkinjones · Jul 12, 2006

Thanks for you comment and understanding. Some of our colleagues are so angry that they can't realize when someone is asking for their insight and understanding to problems in the nursing field. Mine is not to degrade but to understand and find solutions to our problems. And I certainly will not stoop to that level...ever.

punkinjones · Jul 12, 2006

To my fellow colleagues,

Lisky 90 and nursen 99

And then a scholar said, Speak of Talking. And he answered, saying; You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;

And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.

And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.

For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

There are those among you who seek the talkative through fear of being alone. The silence of aloneness reveals totheir eyes their naked selves and they would escape.

And there are those who talk, and without knowledge or forethought reveal a truth which they themselves do not understand. And there are those who have the truth within them, but they tell it not in words.

In the bosom of such as these the spirit dwells in rhythmic silence.

When you meet your friend on the roadside or in the market place, let the spirit in you move your lips and direct your tongue.

Let the voice within your voice speak to the ear of his ear;

For his soul will keep the truth of your heart as the taste of the wine is remembered when the colour is forgotten and the vessel is no more.

Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet

Peace and Love