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replies are from nurses with 10 or more years experience, or the threads are years old and the starting salary is long outdated.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
Starting salary was 20.00/hr in upstate NY. Night diff was 5.00/hr in the year 2000. Now, with 14 years of experience and no BSN, I make 46.13/hr. Night diff 6.25/hr. Boston area.
Ahh, you guys will laugh...Starting pay for me is $18.28/hr, $3 for night differential and $3.50 for weekends. This is in TN, near Nashville. Not what I was expecting, but better than the zero money I am making now.
This is funny. When I started in 1999 I was paid $16/hr.. I think the salaries sound appropriate for first year out and geographic area..
$16 per hour in 1999 is the equivalent of about $21.50 per hour now, so you were doing pretty good, back then. But that doesn't take into consideration the fact that today's nurses might have $50,000 or even $100,000 worth of student debt. All that considered, many nurses today are starting jobs that pay maybe 1/2 or less of what you started at in 1999. If that's funny, I missed the punch line.
I am an RN working at a home health agency in Los Angeles, CA and I would get a stipend per visit I had done and no mileage reimbursed unless it was a far drive around 1.5-2 hours away I would get double the stipend for that visit. Now I started working in the office as a RN Case Worker and I get $25/hr.
Sam J.
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Depressing to hear what nurses are paid nowadays. Here's a link related to starting pay, has anyone heard of this one, yet?: https://allnurses.com/nursing-first-job/lower-pay-during-903278.htmlone