For nursing students like myself, I thought it would be helpful and intersting to see what type of salary is out there for graduating nursing students for different area's. Looking around the site, I see different salary threads, but many replies are from nurses with 10 or more years experience, or the threads are years old and the starting salary is long outdated. I thought it would be more helpful to have a thread with nurses who are fresh out of school and what their starting salary is.
List whether you are an LPN or an RN
What your starting salary is/was after you graduated
New grad in NY, ADN with BS in non-nursing field. I'm working nights, which is 20% differential for weekdays and 30% for weekends. Depending on if I do 8 or 12 hr weekends and holidays worked etc, my salary will end up being between $57-58,000 the first year. Salary goes up significantly after that first year.
What part of NY? And may I ask what field are you working in?
Started as a BSN new grad in January 2013. Starting wage was $25.70/hr, with $1.50 PM differential. One year in and am now making $26.21/hr. I work in an outpatient surgery center in Wisconsin.
starting salary $21/hr, no differential for eves/noc/weekends
LTC
rural county outside Olympia, Washington
This thread is kinda depressing because it seems EVERYBODY is making more money than me. Most of the classmates I graduated with got their first jobs in LTC; the highest pay I've heard of for them around here is $24/hr with a $3 night shift differential, but they are worked to death and hate it. A few of my classmates got residencies in the big teaching hospital in Olympia and are making $27/hr base pay. I work at an assisted living facility that's licensed as a boarding home, so it's not sub-acute care and that's probably why it pays less. But I am grateful to have landed a job with no experience right after graduation, and hey, money is money!
garciwarsi
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Portland, OR
New grad RN BSN
Base pay about $34/hr
Evening shift differential $2/hr (until 11p), night shift differential $6/hr (11p-7a)
Large teaching hospital