Would you like your job more if you were paid more?

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I was wondering, would any of you be more satisfied with your jobs and the stuff that comes along with it if you were paid more? I feel appreciated by my employer once a year when I get a raise, and that's about it. The rest of the time, I get the impression they feel we should just be satisfied with having steady income. I really do like my job and my unit, but I think I'd be more tolerant of things I was paid about $3.00-$5.00 more an hour. Would getting a $5.00 increase make you less frustrated with high nurse to patient ratios? Or would you feel better about being charge nurse if the pay was more than, what...$1.00 more?

Specializes in ED, Cardiac-step down, tele, med surg.

I thought that I might; until I got a new job that paid more and realize that I like it just the same. Sometimes money isn't everything and I think it's good to do things one enjoys.

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I am a School Nurse, so YES!

But since I took a huge pay cut to do this, I really cannot complain. :)

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Specializes in hospice.

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Specializes in ICU/PACU.

YES. But in general I like my job. Something tells me that if I was paid more I wouldn't be bothered so much by the things that bug me about my job (management, politics, personalities of certain people). $5 more an hour wouldn't really cut it though. Maybe 10-20/hr and I'd be happy as can be:)

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Specializes in Emergency.
I love my job already, so getting paid more would be the icing on the cake. With that said, you couldn't pay me enough to work on a floor or specialty I didn't like. I wouldn't last so I'd be giving up the money anyway.

This. Especially because nurses are seriously underpaid.

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
This. Especially because nurses are seriously underpaid.

I, too, am testifying to that with both my hands up.

Cops, too, are seriously underpaid; so many of them have to have second jobs and moon-light as well, just to get by financially.

Plumbers earn better money than we all do.(Not saying anything bad about plumbers, here. They work as 'knee-deep' in you-know-what as we do but are better compensated for it.)

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Specializes in hospice.

No kidding. My kids look college-bound for the most part, but if one of them ends up being less academically-inclined, I'm telling them to become plumbers or electricians or welders! Because all those skilled trades make great money and they'd do well for themselves without a college degree.

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