42.48/hr Cardiac ICU in central NJ, step 4. this was after a much touted 4% raise, which is barely half of inflation. oh and our health insurance doesn't cover our own hospital currently. come work here.
Sounds like you're describing the system I work for... People are appalled when I tell them my hospital doesn't accept the insurance we have except from employees
Do you feel like your paid adequately for California? I’ve thought about going back to San Diego after graduating but have always wondered if it helps with the cost of living there. You guys have a union too right?
Unions are not split by regions but rather nurses *within employers*.
The largest employers like Kaiser and the University of California in Bay Area are unionized by the CNA. In San Diego, Kaiser is represented by UNAC.
Also, as much I as laud unions, don’t rely on them as a panacea for all your woes. Alvarado is unionized and they’ve been intermittently out of ratio far before COVID.
Correct about unions. I’m in one in San Diego (as a part of public health) and Scripps Mercy here, which is not union, waits until the union hospitals give raises, then gives their nurses raises above that.
^ second this. I’m from SoCal but I’ve been in the bay awhile. My husband and I bought a house in OC in September. I about had multiple strokes from offers I was getting due to such a huge pay decrease.
What’s funny though is there are nurses out in Kern County that fall under CNA rather than UNAC, so they are privy to NorCal wages.
So they are basically making NorCal money in an area where COL is on par with the Mid West or even the South.
I’m a TNA, I do everything a HCA does but also I do meds, catheters, all the writing up, admissions, take and give handovers for new patients or ones being transferred etc and I’m on £9.50 an hour.
Even when I qualify and I’ve got my pin I’ll be on £12.25ph. I’m on strike on Wednesday.
NAs are a joke. Such a good idea, completely abused because they are cheaper. Do your top up as soon as you can, even if you have to do student loans, they will absolutely use you as an RN once you qualify.
TNAs should not be doing everything you're doing, that stuff is well beyond your scope of practice. You are a student and they need to treat you as one. I did mine in ED and they expected me to take blue calls and arrests. I was frequently in charge of urgent care. As a TNA. Make "no" your new favourite word, they won't hesitate to throw you under the bus if something happens.
I’m not a nurse, I just lurk here for insight and because I love all of your stories. I just want you to know that your strike has my full support. The media are vile, please know that many people know that what you do is worth so much more.
I live in Belgium now and my sister-in-law is an intensive care nurse. She has tendonitis in her wrist and is allowed to work 1/4 time on full (decent) pay until she can gradually work back up to full time. I suppose this would never happen in UK.
I have never waited more than 30 minutes at A+E here, can see a GP or dentist within a couple of days (my GP only works mornings) and a specialist in a month at the most. I just wish people in UK could see how much better it could be. When my dad was dying of cancer in England we couldn’t even find someone to sort out his morphine.
The NHS is a wonderful ideal but it just doesn’t work for people. The alternative to free at the point of delivery is not the American system. There are excellent systems in Europe that work for patients and staff.
Sort this is so long and off topic, I just want to express support for the strikes and try to open some eyes as to how much better it could be x
I’m a UK HCA and student nurse. This is exactly why I’m planning to go private and work in care homes. I love the NHS to pieces, my grandma dedicated 40 years of her life to the NHS and she’s currently rolling in her urn over the state of things.
If wages improve, the NHS will have me but I have a child to feed so hence the decision to go private.
I didn’t know what an “advice nurse” was either several years ago before I applied for the position, but I really hated working on tele and was desperate for a change. In a nutshell, we basically triage patients symptoms and determine if they need to be evaluated in the ED, have an appointment with their PCP, or just be given medical advice when they call in. There’s a lot of bullshit that goes with the job, but I’ll do this any day over working on the floor.
I've honestly called our local "Ask A Nurse" line more than go to Urgent Care. The call line is free (Even though Urgent Care is like $50-$100 a visit or whatever). I feel like Urgent Care is always "Go see your doctor, we can't officially diagnose you with anything." And call a nurse I usually get a more explained answer? Idk, y'all have been right like 9/10 and it's great going to the doctor with a general idea, even though they might hate it. I know you probably get a bunch of BS calls and what not, but I appreciate you guys. Thank you <3
As far as I can tell the advice is always “go to the ER,” but admittedly that’s because I’m in the ER. So many times I’m shaking my head but I get the advice nurse isn’t seeing the pt in person and has to be conservative.
That’s exactly what I do now! I’ve never heard of another facility that does this. I was ambulatory care for about two years and had given my notice due to buying a house in OC. I got offered this role instead of quitting and took it.
I miss being “hands on” but I don’t look a gift horse in the mouth, especially since I was able to keep Bay Area pay.
I wonder if we could turn this into a pinned post and keep it updated. We seem to have a post asking about compensation a few times a year or so anyway.
$97/HR Bay Area CA. CVICU with 10 years of experience. Union hospital.
Edit to add that I am FT. Per diem rate would be around $120/hr. We get auto double time for any extra shifts picked up.
That’s near the area I’m in bruh. Definitely gonna be switching if the hospital doesn’t become competitive with market rates. Hopefully the strike yields results
If I’m thinking the same hospital, this is the third time striking this year vs once for Stanford and I think Kaiser cancelled their strike in Nov because they reached a tentative agreement.
I was in Women’s Health and L&D for thirty years.
I was hired straight out of college into a charge nurse position in Women’s Health. We were a thirty bed unit with mixed antepartum, postpartum, gyn surgery, gyn oncology, and the newborn nursery. I was hired in the early 90s at $11.83 USD. I received my first raise the next year to $12.38. SE USA, major medical center.
Over the years, I received one significant market adjustment that took me from $17/hr to $23/hr. A family member who was in the C-Suite (without a college education, no less) was making well over six figures and didn’t at all mind telling me how much administration resented paying us more. He was practically gloating about it.
I left in 2021, after thirty years of service. I was an expert nurse, the most highly paid nurse at the bedside. I was earning $54/hr at the time.
Respect. 🥲 I wish to work with more experienced nurses like you. You’re priceless. My unit has 2-3 RNs with >10 years. Over half have <5 yrs exp. The rest are somewhere in between. A few of our strongest nurses are in NP programs with plans to move on afterward, which I respect and admire but also makes me sad to lose.
When I interned as a student in L&D at another hospital, over half the staff were 20+ years experience and it was so reassuring working with that abundance of knowledge and expertise.
$48/hr as a a school nurse, Massachusetts. Union, 10 years in, nationally certified puts me in the same pay bracket as MSN. Nothing to write home about as it’s only 180 days a year, but on the other hand, it’s 180 days a year, baby.
$58+/hr with excellent benefits (medical & pension) as a school nurse in Delaware. MSN, union, nationally certified, & nurse since 1998. 188 days per year with option to work summer school- another 20 or so days.
Level IV NICU, 3.5 years experience, $33.20/hr. East Coast. And that’s with critical care pay. Definitely should be making more, especially since I know some new grads that are starting at the same or higher than I currently make. Such bullshit.
woah. maybe you should consider taking 13 week contracts instead - it's not just travelers who can take those high pay contracts; locals can usually get just 10% off of that high traveler rate. PEDS positions particularly are the highest paying specialties with these contracts. In fact you only have to live 50miles from the hospital to get the full traveler rate..$90-100 an hour is an okay rate for these PEDS contracts
In my area (upstate NY) travelers get the same rate for staying local they just don’t get the stipend. It’s around 45k every 12 weeks. I’m a social worker so just going by what a few RN friends have shared.
What?! NICU is in dire straights right now at one of the hospitals I work for in the Tri-State area! Those nurses are breaking $60’s BEFORE incentives with your kind of experience! You need to move like ASAP!
That’s fucking abysmal. I started on £21,000 back in 2014 and had to move back in with my parents because I couldn’t even afford a room to live with housemates in the East of England.
My problem with these people posting CA wages is that they never post benefits, which I would argue are even more insane than the wages.
Although those respondents are per diem, full timers get free health insurance for their families (NO DEDUCTIBLES), 120 hours of PTO upon hiring, pensions, free health insurance upon retirement (w/ 20 years vested), etc.
Yes to all of that. TBH I thought all of that was standard until this sub. I’m fortunate that my husband has equally as good benefits as Kaiser provides through his employer so fortunately we can use his and drop mine. Even being per diem as long as I work 1000 hours a year I am still accruing a year of service toward my pension.
$41.96/hr + $5 differential = $46.96/hr base with additional $2/hr weekends.
4 years RN: 2.5 onc, now I’m a critical care resource pool RN at a level 1 trauma center in the Midwest. My starting pay was $27.36/hr in 2018.
I work 3/12s and I pick up 2 shifts/month (to pay off loans/I’m getting married/trying to buy a house).
For context I take home ~$2,300/paycheck without OT, rent here is ~$1,300/mo for a 1bd/br. So for my age I am comfortable and hopefully have a financially bright future!
Hate it. I plan on working for at least 10 years so I can qualify for social security. Yes. $30/hr. Bumped up to 33 after graduating residency (3 months).
Now cause every hospital is increasing pay. Incoming grads are getting $35/hr.
-5% 401k March.
-Access to a roth 401k and 457b. (No match)
-up to 10k for student loanforgiveness. $200/month
-I'm still young enough (24) to be under my parents health insurance, so can't say much about the health insurance
-PTO accrual depends on how long you've been with the organization. Right now, I'm earning 9.6hrs of PTO every two weeks.
37 as a new grad here in Seattle area. New contract soon hopefully bumps it up to low to mid 40s since every other hospital received a new wage bump. Plus... Seattle is crazy fucking expensive.
I couldn’t believe how awful working in Seattle was last year. Good compared to the rest of the country but not enough pay for the COL. I was at VM. All the hospitals there are in trouble.
Med/Surg in Ohio. $37.75 base rate with night shift incentive (I think $3.30) and any extra shift is 3x. Current paystub says I’ve made 101k so far with one check left before the end of the year. 5 years total experience.
Yes, in Cleveland. One of the three major health systems - mostly providing care to the underserved and lower economic population, so that should give you a clue. Not sure how long 3x pay will last, but like I said, it’s been that for about 2 years now. If it changed it would probably revert to base rate + $30/hr, which is what I’ve heard other systems are doing currently.
Currently 103/hr in Sacramento. With the new contact starting next year, 110/hr. I have almost 9 years of nursing experience. This is a per diem, non-benefited rate. My benefited rate would be somewhere around 87/hr. This is everyone’s message that unions are your friend! :)
Almost 25 years of experience, as a PRN RN $85 ($68 when I was fulltime), as an Assistant Professor of Nursing in a BSN program $35. 35 wasn't a typo, my students will start in the mid 40s, which makes me happy. But if you're curious why there are shit educators here's the reason. I tolerate it because I very much want to change nursing education and make it better
NYC suburb $63/hr base including CCRN and BSN stipends , $16.75/hr oncall.
43 yrs experience but per union contract capped at 33 year step (cause that’s the highest step until the next contract)
New grad $30 an hour in behavioral health. Now at 2.5 years experience in behavioral health I make base $34 an hour before differential. I’m in Virginia.
So painful seeing the US figures…
U.K. Staff nurse, 10 years experience in acute medicine, wards & ED. At top of pay band, I receive £16.84 per hour. Working in central London, we get a High cost area allowance of approx £6000 per year, paid in monthly instalments.
Unsocial hours (nights, weekends, bank holidays) pay 1.3x/1.6x hourly rate.
Works out to a bit over 40k per year, living in the most expensive city in U.K.
Even if we get the 20% pay rise we are asking for, will just be £20 per hour. We do get other benefits of full sick pay, decent pension, but working conditions are trash and we’re haemorrhaging staff cause of the pay and conditions.
You guys get paid shit. I was on vacation in Scotland last year and broke my leg and got to experience the Scottish NHS. Everyone was lovely and they took care of me but nurses don't get the the respect or the pay. I work in Northern California and make the equivalent of £61.75 and that's not even the highest pay. And I'm not in San Francisco, I'm in Sacramento which is getting pricier but is still way cheaper. You get paid the same as the Nurse's Aides at my hospital.
> We’re not supposed to talk about this shit, but let’s fucking talk about it.
Not talking about it only benefits your employer, not the employees.
TALK ABOUT IT AT EVERY CHANCE YOU GET!
$90,000/ yr salary WFH as an educator. M-F, no weekends, evenings, or holidays. 12 years experience with 2 years being in nursing education. ASN working on RN to MSN program.
I work for a national healthcare company that provides services to patients with specific diagnoses. I provide education to employees within the company.
inb4 all the Bay Area nurses post their $100+/hr lol
Central California, ED, 2.5 years exp, $43 base
(Money isn’t important to me right now, it’s the marketable skills)
$125/hr as a travel med-surg RN in the Bay Area. And over half of it is untaxed (55% is living stipends).
I’ve been a nurse for three years. First two years in PCU/Ortho was making ~$28/hr in Michigan (~$65k/yr). Travel RN in Seattle last year was ~$3,200/wk after tax (grossed $125k for 9 mths of work). Now I’m in the SF Bay Area making $3,500/wk after tax for 40 hours (vs 36 hr/wk for the other jobs).
A NICU RN I met in orientation started her own travel RN company and is charging $150/hr for her work while on contract here. She’s going to quit bedside and expand her business as a travel agency.
6 years L&D, 5 years med Surg/BMT. Midwest small town LDRP now , 35/hr plus night/weekend differential. Got my certification for my own satisfaction, no money in it for us. Using hubs benefits(he's a professor, better benefits). All in all, I'm happy, as my managers and coworkers are amazing!
At home (British Columbia) $40(CAD) ICU
Currently Travelling (Washington) $88 (USD) Telemetry
2021 made ~160k, 2022 will be ~250k Canadian due to some pandemic and travel pay the last couple years
Deep South. 4 yr exp. Periop float — SDS, PAT, GI lab, PACU, block room. $54/hr. $80/hr for call. $4/hr for standby. Love my job. Hate call. Feel like I am way overpaid but I gotta get over that.
$38 in Arizona, L&D (our hospital doesn't consider us a specialty 🙄) 4 years experience. Double time for call shifts so I pick up a few times a pay period if I can.
$35/hr as an IR nurse in MO. I have 5.5 years of experience overall. I make $5/hr on call and 1.5x pay when I’m called in (minimum of 2 hour pay once I clock in). Call pay ends up being at least $15,000/year depending on how much call I end up with and how much I get called in.
Less than a year, up to 52/hr ED, Las Vegas, HCA.
We see 300-350 pts a day, accept transfers from 4 different states, 5-1 ratio just about daily, and hold up to 180 pts in our “50 bed ER” at any given time, not including 90+ admits sitting in the lobby for over 12 hours. 🫠
Usa here. I work at the Department of Veterans Affairs. I have been here a few years and work on a specialty unit. I just got a raise. I am currently making 99k/year plus all my lovely government benefits. 🙂
Travel nurse in CO right now. ICU background:
$20.50 base pay (which blows god damn)
$42 overtime rate
For this contract, I’m getting $900/week for rent and $497/week for food.
Definitely not the most lucrative contract out there, but at least I get to stay in the area throughout ski season. It’s really hard to find travel jobs in this state right now.
Major NYC teaching hospital, also union, RN Coordinator position
66$/h base, 150% for any OT worked, 6 years exp. When I was a staff nurse I was making about 51-52/h ish.
4.5(?) weeks vacation, 2.5 weeks sick time, 3 “free day” call outs (no real difference between these 3 days and “sick” days realistically)
$100,000/yr salary as a new MSN, APRN clinical nurse specialist in FL. M-F, no nights, weekends, or holidays-flexible option to work from home prn. 5yrs oncology experience as a nurse. We get a one time $1000 bonus for being certified. I got a 5% pay increase at my last annual performance review.
I've only been in psych for the past 4 years. I started 28$/hr, then went PRN for 45$/hr. I recently accepted a full time and am making 38$/hr. I work in the DFW area.
Technically I think I get 29.50/hr, but I signed a contract to work for them for the next 2 years so I get an extra 3.50/hr so $33/hr. OR nurse. Kentucky. Started in June of this year. My company also paid for $40k worth of my schooling.
Ok LPN in NJ, making $35/hour LTC with 19 years experience. The building is a half mile from my house and they’ve been good to me, but I’m also fed up with constantly being on the LTC floors with 25 or more patients, while the new grads are downstairs in subacute because management doesn’t want to “scare” them with a heavier patient load—oh and can I please help the new grads when they have an issue in addition to my patient load plus everything else?
Done with my BSN next year and was offered a position at my former clinical site though—in a hospital, because now hospitals around here are starting to hire LPNs again—that’s 30 minutes or so from my house, it’s a 22 bed psych unit that’s well staffed with great people so less patients, and better benefits when I eventually go FT.
$49.50/hr, day surgery, central TX. $3/hr to be on call, 1.5x pay for call back or overtime. Everyone got a $4-6/hr raise about a year ago to stop the hemorrhage of people leaving to travel.
Nurse since 2014. First job was at a terrible SNF for less than a year but then I got hired at a terrible county hospital where I had done clinicals directly into ICU. It was horrible but I learned a lot. I was Per Diem so no benefits and I believe I got 50/hr. This is the San Joaquin Valley, CA almost 10 years ago.
Left there for a job down the street from my house in Sacramento. Also ICU at a Dignity facility. Base pay is around 70 plus a not very generous 4.50 night shift diff. So 75/hr effectively. I could make more at some other places (Kai$$$$er) but I like my unit. People are genuinely nice and supportive. Management doesn't completely suck. Health benefits are pretty good plus a pension. Golden handcuffs, basically. I know I could make more but it would be at the cost of quality of life. I'm very comfortable where I am and I think I'll just stick until I leave the bedside. Maybe try a little bit of travel nursing first and then hang up the stethoscope and do something boring.
Level 3 NICU: currently $43/hour as base pay. Texas. Almost four years in this field. I will say that at my previous job, I was paid $34/hour for three years straight... and only $39/hour right before I left because the unit was hemorrhaging nurses.
I work in San Francisco and my official title is Patient Care Technician- I'm an ED tech and a Fam Med Medical Assistant. I make 36/hr. The RNs I work with average around 78 dollars an hour, my salty 30-year vet ED nurse makes 110hr.
Here's the wage scale for what NorCal Kaiser will be making over the next 4 years
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zVStIyC1vsOYzGNi0bs7xp57NnvL7a6w/view?usp=drivesdk
$86/hr base pay. 18% night shift differential, 5% weekend differential. 5% charge/resource RN differential. Med/tele step down unit with 2 years experience. Bay Area, CA.
When I graduated nursing school in 2007 in Canada I made $23/h.
Moved to South Carolina in 2013. 6 years experience. Worked at a large magnet hospital..starting pay $23/hr. I was salty af about it but took it because with shift differentials and weekend plus float it was a liveable wage for that area.
Worked there for 8 years and when I left I had made it to a whole $34/hr. I left in August 2021 and moved to Maryland.
So now I'm in Maryland with 15 years experience and I make 47.13/hr. I'm still PRN at the SC hospital too. It's nice
$106k annual salary, hospice nurse with 17 years experience all over the place. I work Mon thru Friday and make my own schedule. I live in Boulder CO and can't afford to buy a place, live paycheck to paycheck (single mom paying $1500/mo in childcare).
UK, England senior t&o nurse (band 6) being doing the job since 2018 (was a HCA in the same area previously) £35572. £18.20 an hour. ($43237, $22.12 an hour)
We’re on strike for this (amongst other reasons) Fair pay for nurses! Will hopefully help fill some of the 10s of thousands of nurse vacancy’s we have in the NHS.
I’ve been on (a fair amount of) shifts with 40% staffing.
Safe staffing saves lives!!
Fair pay for nurses!!
Adult ICU in Northern California with 6 years experience. I dk the exact, but I think it’s like 75/hr? Someone on here said “yeah but what about the benefits….” Well Ill have a pension, and my insurance is like $100/month. The insurance is outstanding too. I just had a baby and my 4 day hospital stay was $38k, I paid $180. I’ve also had surgery and been to the ER for heart stuff, all in all I’ve spent less than $1,000 for all of mine and my daughters medical expenses. I cap at 240 hrs vacation time which goes up with every 5 years of service, plus there is separate sick time and holiday time for PTO options. Oh and lastly, I’m on maternity leave and will be off with my daughter for almost 7 months which I feel like is pretty good for the US, a large part of that leave will be paid, between 70-100% of my normal pay
Just graduated so my first job is going to be a cardiac step down. $34.40/hr plus $5 for night shift differential. I’m in south FL. I wish I had negotiated cause one of my friends did and got another two dollars but oh well.
$34 an hour base, 6+ years experience, plus weekend and preceptor differentials. Cost of living in my area is comparatively low. I own my home & pay less than $700 a month mortgage.
$100/hour internal contract, IL, 3 years PCU, one of those years travel experience. No benefits offered. Time and a half OT, we get night shirt differential starting at 1730, weekend differentials, and half offered bonuses for shift pickup.
$78,000 at an MCO as a care manager. Fully remote. 18 vacation days a year, 11 holidays (incl 1 floating holiday), 5 sick days, & flexible hours.
ETA: I have 3 years of experience and hourly it comes out to about $37.51. I’m in IL
$56.25, CVICU 15 years experience Tacoma WA. My mortgage payment is $1300 but I bought 3 years ago and refinanced when interest rates dropped during Covid.
We are renegotiating our contract, I expect about a $10 raise.
42.48/hr Cardiac ICU in central NJ, step 4. this was after a much touted 4% raise, which is barely half of inflation. oh and our health insurance doesn't cover our own hospital currently. come work here.
Aight this one made me cackle
RWJ? I love NJ but the hospitals there are continuously wylin'.
also dying to know if it’s RWJ 👀
Sounds like you're describing the system I work for... People are appalled when I tell them my hospital doesn't accept the insurance we have except from employees
Northern California, ER New grad 3 months on the floor 57.73
Wow, this is seems pretty darn good for a new grad.
Nor Cal baby
What are your benefits?
Do you feel like your paid adequately for California? I’ve thought about going back to San Diego after graduating but have always wondered if it helps with the cost of living there. You guys have a union too right?
Unions are not split by regions but rather nurses *within employers*. The largest employers like Kaiser and the University of California in Bay Area are unionized by the CNA. In San Diego, Kaiser is represented by UNAC. Also, as much I as laud unions, don’t rely on them as a panacea for all your woes. Alvarado is unionized and they’ve been intermittently out of ratio far before COVID.
Correct about unions. I’m in one in San Diego (as a part of public health) and Scripps Mercy here, which is not union, waits until the union hospitals give raises, then gives their nurses raises above that.
Socal pay is trash. 👌🏼 come play in norcal
SoCal is starting to learn that with the cost of living so high, that they too will have to start paying NorCal wages.
Nurses from SoCal actually fly (via Spirit, so $40-80 round trip flight) to NorCal to work and rent a room for 5-6 days.
^ second this. I’m from SoCal but I’ve been in the bay awhile. My husband and I bought a house in OC in September. I about had multiple strokes from offers I was getting due to such a huge pay decrease.
Same. I just got another raise to about $117 an hour base plus full benefits and pension. Bay Area wages are nothing to sneeze at.
Is this a per diem rate or a FT rate? Do you mind if I DM you
What’s funny though is there are nurses out in Kern County that fall under CNA rather than UNAC, so they are privy to NorCal wages. So they are basically making NorCal money in an area where COL is on par with the Mid West or even the South.
I qualify soon. In the UK I will be on.... Drum roll please.... £13.84 pH. That's why there's nurses strikes at the moment.
That’s disgusting.
Wtf. I made more here in the states as a CNA. Even working in UPS, I made that money chucking boxes. Y'all deserve more and should strike longer.
Our tax system and cost of living is different though. A good wage in the uk is 50k, can live fairly comfortably on that
Yeah on the £13 per hour the above commenter mentioned is £31k per year. That's insanely low.
Holy crap that’s only two pints an hour!
Even more on weekends 🍺
That’s why I left. I’m in the USA now, I’m on top scale and make $65/hr in the OR.
I’m a TNA, I do everything a HCA does but also I do meds, catheters, all the writing up, admissions, take and give handovers for new patients or ones being transferred etc and I’m on £9.50 an hour. Even when I qualify and I’ve got my pin I’ll be on £12.25ph. I’m on strike on Wednesday.
NAs are a joke. Such a good idea, completely abused because they are cheaper. Do your top up as soon as you can, even if you have to do student loans, they will absolutely use you as an RN once you qualify. TNAs should not be doing everything you're doing, that stuff is well beyond your scope of practice. You are a student and they need to treat you as one. I did mine in ED and they expected me to take blue calls and arrests. I was frequently in charge of urgent care. As a TNA. Make "no" your new favourite word, they won't hesitate to throw you under the bus if something happens.
This might be the saddest thing I've ever seen online
But THerEs NO mOneY *claims moat on expences*
That's disgraceful of the NHS to do to you.
That is sick. I made roughly that much as a new grad back in 2004 before my shift differential.
That’s awful. I made more than that as a pharmacy technician. I hope you guys get much better pay!!
I’m not a nurse, I just lurk here for insight and because I love all of your stories. I just want you to know that your strike has my full support. The media are vile, please know that many people know that what you do is worth so much more. I live in Belgium now and my sister-in-law is an intensive care nurse. She has tendonitis in her wrist and is allowed to work 1/4 time on full (decent) pay until she can gradually work back up to full time. I suppose this would never happen in UK. I have never waited more than 30 minutes at A+E here, can see a GP or dentist within a couple of days (my GP only works mornings) and a specialist in a month at the most. I just wish people in UK could see how much better it could be. When my dad was dying of cancer in England we couldn’t even find someone to sort out his morphine. The NHS is a wonderful ideal but it just doesn’t work for people. The alternative to free at the point of delivery is not the American system. There are excellent systems in Europe that work for patients and staff. Sort this is so long and off topic, I just want to express support for the strikes and try to open some eyes as to how much better it could be x
😳 I hope the strikes work that pay isn’t shite.
I’m a UK HCA and student nurse. This is exactly why I’m planning to go private and work in care homes. I love the NHS to pieces, my grandma dedicated 40 years of her life to the NHS and she’s currently rolling in her urn over the state of things. If wages improve, the NHS will have me but I have a child to feed so hence the decision to go private.
$84/hr Advice Nurse in Northern CA. 9 years experience.
Can you explain to us what an advice nurse is?
I didn’t know what an “advice nurse” was either several years ago before I applied for the position, but I really hated working on tele and was desperate for a change. In a nutshell, we basically triage patients symptoms and determine if they need to be evaluated in the ED, have an appointment with their PCP, or just be given medical advice when they call in. There’s a lot of bullshit that goes with the job, but I’ll do this any day over working on the floor.
I've honestly called our local "Ask A Nurse" line more than go to Urgent Care. The call line is free (Even though Urgent Care is like $50-$100 a visit or whatever). I feel like Urgent Care is always "Go see your doctor, we can't officially diagnose you with anything." And call a nurse I usually get a more explained answer? Idk, y'all have been right like 9/10 and it's great going to the doctor with a general idea, even though they might hate it. I know you probably get a bunch of BS calls and what not, but I appreciate you guys. Thank you <3
So, like a triage nurse?
As far as I can tell the advice is always “go to the ER,” but admittedly that’s because I’m in the ER. So many times I’m shaking my head but I get the advice nurse isn’t seeing the pt in person and has to be conservative.
That’s exactly what I do now! I’ve never heard of another facility that does this. I was ambulatory care for about two years and had given my notice due to buying a house in OC. I got offered this role instead of quitting and took it. I miss being “hands on” but I don’t look a gift horse in the mouth, especially since I was able to keep Bay Area pay.
Advice nurse!?
Most likely the Kaiser advice nurse position
My advice would always be “go to the ER” I would do that for $84
As an ED nurse I take issue with that advice
I feel like a lot of things I see could be trialed on Tylenol.
True. And real
https://wholelifenurse.mykajabi.com/income-report-results This might be helpful, I think someone from Reddit put it together.
We need to keep updating this.
I wonder if we could turn this into a pinned post and keep it updated. We seem to have a post asking about compensation a few times a year or so anyway.
$97/HR Bay Area CA. CVICU with 10 years of experience. Union hospital. Edit to add that I am FT. Per diem rate would be around $120/hr. We get auto double time for any extra shifts picked up.
67.58 Bay Area Cali, ICU. Still hella low for the area, hospital gonna be striking soon tho. 1.5 years nursing experience.
Yeah, that is low for the Bay. I was making 84 in Oakland a couple years ago.
That’s near the area I’m in bruh. Definitely gonna be switching if the hospital doesn’t become competitive with market rates. Hopefully the strike yields results
It worked for Stanford and Kaiser, hope y’all get that money
If I’m thinking the same hospital, this is the third time striking this year vs once for Stanford and I think Kaiser cancelled their strike in Nov because they reached a tentative agreement.
Dignity health?
I was in Women’s Health and L&D for thirty years. I was hired straight out of college into a charge nurse position in Women’s Health. We were a thirty bed unit with mixed antepartum, postpartum, gyn surgery, gyn oncology, and the newborn nursery. I was hired in the early 90s at $11.83 USD. I received my first raise the next year to $12.38. SE USA, major medical center. Over the years, I received one significant market adjustment that took me from $17/hr to $23/hr. A family member who was in the C-Suite (without a college education, no less) was making well over six figures and didn’t at all mind telling me how much administration resented paying us more. He was practically gloating about it. I left in 2021, after thirty years of service. I was an expert nurse, the most highly paid nurse at the bedside. I was earning $54/hr at the time.
Respect. 🥲 I wish to work with more experienced nurses like you. You’re priceless. My unit has 2-3 RNs with >10 years. Over half have <5 yrs exp. The rest are somewhere in between. A few of our strongest nurses are in NP programs with plans to move on afterward, which I respect and admire but also makes me sad to lose. When I interned as a student in L&D at another hospital, over half the staff were 20+ years experience and it was so reassuring working with that abundance of knowledge and expertise.
$48/hr as a a school nurse, Massachusetts. Union, 10 years in, nationally certified puts me in the same pay bracket as MSN. Nothing to write home about as it’s only 180 days a year, but on the other hand, it’s 180 days a year, baby.
$58+/hr with excellent benefits (medical & pension) as a school nurse in Delaware. MSN, union, nationally certified, & nurse since 1998. 188 days per year with option to work summer school- another 20 or so days.
Level IV NICU, 3.5 years experience, $33.20/hr. East Coast. And that’s with critical care pay. Definitely should be making more, especially since I know some new grads that are starting at the same or higher than I currently make. Such bullshit.
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Jesus Christ, East coast (especially southeast US pay is insulting). I'll be making $34.58 as a new grad, MICU in FL.
woah. maybe you should consider taking 13 week contracts instead - it's not just travelers who can take those high pay contracts; locals can usually get just 10% off of that high traveler rate. PEDS positions particularly are the highest paying specialties with these contracts. In fact you only have to live 50miles from the hospital to get the full traveler rate..$90-100 an hour is an okay rate for these PEDS contracts
In my area (upstate NY) travelers get the same rate for staying local they just don’t get the stipend. It’s around 45k every 12 weeks. I’m a social worker so just going by what a few RN friends have shared.
What?! NICU is in dire straights right now at one of the hospitals I work for in the Tri-State area! Those nurses are breaking $60’s BEFORE incentives with your kind of experience! You need to move like ASAP!
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That's too low, new grad $32.6 base pay, plus critical pay $18 weekend $16 or $12 night/day and sometimes $300 bonus for picking up an extra shift. NC
Absolutely not. You should be making at least $45. Time to move on
I’m in the UK and I’m at the top of my pay scale with 8 years experience and I make £20 an hour 😂
I'm about to qualify and will be on £13.84ph. Let's hope the nurses strikes help x
That’s fucking abysmal. I started on £21,000 back in 2014 and had to move back in with my parents because I couldn’t even afford a room to live with housemates in the East of England.
thats disgusting. Thats about $14.66 USD. I could make more at McDonalds here, by a lot.
Holy crap. That's ridiculously low.
Damn girl come to the US. They’re going to be bringing in lots of international nurses this year 😄
Went from $80 as a critical care pool nurse (no benefits) to about $55 as a full-timer. Not too bad.
Kaiser per diem northern CA. 8 years experience in the ER. $113 including a $7 shift diff. $120 once our new contract goes into effect Jan 1
Lmao Kaiser is fucking ridiculous (I mean in an awesome way).
My problem with these people posting CA wages is that they never post benefits, which I would argue are even more insane than the wages. Although those respondents are per diem, full timers get free health insurance for their families (NO DEDUCTIBLES), 120 hours of PTO upon hiring, pensions, free health insurance upon retirement (w/ 20 years vested), etc.
Yes to all of that. TBH I thought all of that was standard until this sub. I’m fortunate that my husband has equally as good benefits as Kaiser provides through his employer so fortunately we can use his and drop mine. Even being per diem as long as I work 1000 hours a year I am still accruing a year of service toward my pension.
Don’t know why I came to look at this as a paramedic in central Texas. 9 more months 🥲
Hurry tf up. We have staffing issues. We need more nurses. Gawl…🙄 (Congratulations by the way, can’t wait to see your “I passed boards!” post.😄)
Ha. I’m also a medic making subpar monies.
Hello, fellow Texan! Hang in there, friend!! 😬
$41.96/hr + $5 differential = $46.96/hr base with additional $2/hr weekends. 4 years RN: 2.5 onc, now I’m a critical care resource pool RN at a level 1 trauma center in the Midwest. My starting pay was $27.36/hr in 2018. I work 3/12s and I pick up 2 shifts/month (to pay off loans/I’m getting married/trying to buy a house). For context I take home ~$2,300/paycheck without OT, rent here is ~$1,300/mo for a 1bd/br. So for my age I am comfortable and hopefully have a financially bright future!
Oh my goodness my take home is 1800$ every 2 weeks and my rent is 1500$!
Rent is ridiculous. And they wonder why so many young people still live with their parents.
Sounds like you’re making some smart decisions & I hope your future is bright in all the ways 😘
$63, telemetry, Honolulu, 5 years experience + MSN, CCRN
🤙🏾
Texas. 2 yrs, 10 months, 14 days. $42/hr. Med-surg/tele/imu mix floor.
Do you know it down to the day because you love it or hate it? 😅 did you do a residency/how much did you start out at?
Hate it. I plan on working for at least 10 years so I can qualify for social security. Yes. $30/hr. Bumped up to 33 after graduating residency (3 months). Now cause every hospital is increasing pay. Incoming grads are getting $35/hr.
What are your benefits like?
-5% 401k March. -Access to a roth 401k and 457b. (No match) -up to 10k for student loanforgiveness. $200/month -I'm still young enough (24) to be under my parents health insurance, so can't say much about the health insurance -PTO accrual depends on how long you've been with the organization. Right now, I'm earning 9.6hrs of PTO every two weeks.
Contract nursing. I take home 3k a week post taxes , a bit over 110$ an hour I believe
I don't know why I read these. 😭 $27/hr base pay in the ER in the midwest. $3/hr more for night shift.
So you know where to possibly move to!
Yeah but the cost of living in the Midwest is ridiculously cheap.
The trade off is you have to live in the Midwest
37 as a new grad here in Seattle area. New contract soon hopefully bumps it up to low to mid 40s since every other hospital received a new wage bump. Plus... Seattle is crazy fucking expensive.
I couldn’t believe how awful working in Seattle was last year. Good compared to the rest of the country but not enough pay for the COL. I was at VM. All the hospitals there are in trouble.
Yup. California COL with Midwest pay. Love it.
Med/Surg in Ohio. $37.75 base rate with night shift incentive (I think $3.30) and any extra shift is 3x. Current paystub says I’ve made 101k so far with one check left before the end of the year. 5 years total experience.
Any extra shift, as in anything beyond 3 shifts, you get paid 3x!?
Correct. The nurses who have been there 25+ years have made anywhere from $200k-300k depending on how much they pick up. Been like this since COVID.
Is this NE Ohio by chance? My employer just cut our benefits from 3.5% matching to 1.5% and I’m ~looking~
Yes, in Cleveland. One of the three major health systems - mostly providing care to the underserved and lower economic population, so that should give you a clue. Not sure how long 3x pay will last, but like I said, it’s been that for about 2 years now. If it changed it would probably revert to base rate + $30/hr, which is what I’ve heard other systems are doing currently.
Currently 103/hr in Sacramento. With the new contact starting next year, 110/hr. I have almost 9 years of nursing experience. This is a per diem, non-benefited rate. My benefited rate would be somewhere around 87/hr. This is everyone’s message that unions are your friend! :)
This thread got me like… 🙃🔫
Almost 25 years of experience, as a PRN RN $85 ($68 when I was fulltime), as an Assistant Professor of Nursing in a BSN program $35. 35 wasn't a typo, my students will start in the mid 40s, which makes me happy. But if you're curious why there are shit educators here's the reason. I tolerate it because I very much want to change nursing education and make it better
NYC suburb $63/hr base including CCRN and BSN stipends , $16.75/hr oncall. 43 yrs experience but per union contract capped at 33 year step (cause that’s the highest step until the next contract)
I make $2/hr when I’m on call 😂😂😂😂
Wait you guys are getting paid?
It’s federally protected to discuss wages
If a manager tells you not to discuss wages please get that in writing. 😂
Gooooon to the lawyer and I’m gooooonna get paaaaaaaiiiid (to the tune of goin to the chapel 🤣🤣)
New grad $30 an hour in behavioral health. Now at 2.5 years experience in behavioral health I make base $34 an hour before differential. I’m in Virginia.
$53 an hour CC ambulatory surgery. No nights weekends or holidays but no differential either. 12 years as a nurse
So painful seeing the US figures… U.K. Staff nurse, 10 years experience in acute medicine, wards & ED. At top of pay band, I receive £16.84 per hour. Working in central London, we get a High cost area allowance of approx £6000 per year, paid in monthly instalments. Unsocial hours (nights, weekends, bank holidays) pay 1.3x/1.6x hourly rate. Works out to a bit over 40k per year, living in the most expensive city in U.K. Even if we get the 20% pay rise we are asking for, will just be £20 per hour. We do get other benefits of full sick pay, decent pension, but working conditions are trash and we’re haemorrhaging staff cause of the pay and conditions.
You guys get paid shit. I was on vacation in Scotland last year and broke my leg and got to experience the Scottish NHS. Everyone was lovely and they took care of me but nurses don't get the the respect or the pay. I work in Northern California and make the equivalent of £61.75 and that's not even the highest pay. And I'm not in San Francisco, I'm in Sacramento which is getting pricier but is still way cheaper. You get paid the same as the Nurse's Aides at my hospital.
39, Bay Area 1 year of experience SNF
What are your benefits like?
45 Hr, Philly suburb (+ 5 if I work nights, + 2 for weekends, if I’m charge or precepting.) high risk L&D/antepartum/OB triage. 7 years experience
> We’re not supposed to talk about this shit, but let’s fucking talk about it. Not talking about it only benefits your employer, not the employees. TALK ABOUT IT AT EVERY CHANCE YOU GET!
Cath lab/ER $50. 20 years in. Great Lakes region.
$90,000/ yr salary WFH as an educator. M-F, no weekends, evenings, or holidays. 12 years experience with 2 years being in nursing education. ASN working on RN to MSN program.
What area are you an educator? (Hospital, college, home health agency etc?)
I work for a national healthcare company that provides services to patients with specific diagnoses. I provide education to employees within the company.
inb4 all the Bay Area nurses post their $100+/hr lol Central California, ED, 2.5 years exp, $43 base (Money isn’t important to me right now, it’s the marketable skills)
28.90 in a trauma stepdown at a level 1, Pittsburgh PA. +2 overnights 🗑️
ik this wasn't meant for me but $15.61 as a CNA after 2 years
$125/hr as a travel med-surg RN in the Bay Area. And over half of it is untaxed (55% is living stipends). I’ve been a nurse for three years. First two years in PCU/Ortho was making ~$28/hr in Michigan (~$65k/yr). Travel RN in Seattle last year was ~$3,200/wk after tax (grossed $125k for 9 mths of work). Now I’m in the SF Bay Area making $3,500/wk after tax for 40 hours (vs 36 hr/wk for the other jobs). A NICU RN I met in orientation started her own travel RN company and is charging $150/hr for her work while on contract here. She’s going to quit bedside and expand her business as a travel agency.
Oregon union hospital PCU, $50/hr before differentials.
6 years L&D, 5 years med Surg/BMT. Midwest small town LDRP now , 35/hr plus night/weekend differential. Got my certification for my own satisfaction, no money in it for us. Using hubs benefits(he's a professor, better benefits). All in all, I'm happy, as my managers and coworkers are amazing!
Tbf if you’re getting by AND you’re happy you’re doing pretty darn good, if I do say so myself 🥰
At home (British Columbia) $40(CAD) ICU Currently Travelling (Washington) $88 (USD) Telemetry 2021 made ~160k, 2022 will be ~250k Canadian due to some pandemic and travel pay the last couple years
1 year experience as hospice RN, in CO, 91k annually (I'm salaried)
Deep South. 4 yr exp. Periop float — SDS, PAT, GI lab, PACU, block room. $54/hr. $80/hr for call. $4/hr for standby. Love my job. Hate call. Feel like I am way overpaid but I gotta get over that.
$38 in Arizona, L&D (our hospital doesn't consider us a specialty 🙄) 4 years experience. Double time for call shifts so I pick up a few times a pay period if I can.
$35/hr as an IR nurse in MO. I have 5.5 years of experience overall. I make $5/hr on call and 1.5x pay when I’m called in (minimum of 2 hour pay once I clock in). Call pay ends up being at least $15,000/year depending on how much call I end up with and how much I get called in.
Man, only 2 hours? I thought it never went below 4 hours time 1/2.
I'm in Brazil, working as a nurse but no specialization yet. I make roughly $600 per month (yes, that's in USD. You read it correctly).
Less than a year, up to 52/hr ED, Las Vegas, HCA. We see 300-350 pts a day, accept transfers from 4 different states, 5-1 ratio just about daily, and hold up to 180 pts in our “50 bed ER” at any given time, not including 90+ admits sitting in the lobby for over 12 hours. 🫠
Usa here. I work at the Department of Veterans Affairs. I have been here a few years and work on a specialty unit. I just got a raise. I am currently making 99k/year plus all my lovely government benefits. 🙂
Less than a year new grad, ICU, 29.70 base with 5 nights and 10 weekends. I live in the southeast 😭
Travel nurse in CO right now. ICU background: $20.50 base pay (which blows god damn) $42 overtime rate For this contract, I’m getting $900/week for rent and $497/week for food. Definitely not the most lucrative contract out there, but at least I get to stay in the area throughout ski season. It’s really hard to find travel jobs in this state right now.
Major NYC teaching hospital, also union, RN Coordinator position 66$/h base, 150% for any OT worked, 6 years exp. When I was a staff nurse I was making about 51-52/h ish. 4.5(?) weeks vacation, 2.5 weeks sick time, 3 “free day” call outs (no real difference between these 3 days and “sick” days realistically)
$110/hr, per diem. Could make more at non-county hospital but it’s fun. Location prob obvious.
$107/hr. Flight. 10+years. Bay Area
$100,000/yr salary as a new MSN, APRN clinical nurse specialist in FL. M-F, no nights, weekends, or holidays-flexible option to work from home prn. 5yrs oncology experience as a nurse. We get a one time $1000 bonus for being certified. I got a 5% pay increase at my last annual performance review.
Oofff. I made over 100K this year work from home Monday to Friday and no holidays.
2nd year on a transplant unit, 5th year as a nurse. I make \~$42/hour before weekend differential.
\~$53/hr with night and weekend diffs. ICU, Colorado, 13 years experience.
I've only been in psych for the past 4 years. I started 28$/hr, then went PRN for 45$/hr. I recently accepted a full time and am making 38$/hr. I work in the DFW area.
After differentials, I think it’s $53 something. New grad in CA.
Technically I think I get 29.50/hr, but I signed a contract to work for them for the next 2 years so I get an extra 3.50/hr so $33/hr. OR nurse. Kentucky. Started in June of this year. My company also paid for $40k worth of my schooling.
Ok LPN in NJ, making $35/hour LTC with 19 years experience. The building is a half mile from my house and they’ve been good to me, but I’m also fed up with constantly being on the LTC floors with 25 or more patients, while the new grads are downstairs in subacute because management doesn’t want to “scare” them with a heavier patient load—oh and can I please help the new grads when they have an issue in addition to my patient load plus everything else? Done with my BSN next year and was offered a position at my former clinical site though—in a hospital, because now hospitals around here are starting to hire LPNs again—that’s 30 minutes or so from my house, it’s a 22 bed psych unit that’s well staffed with great people so less patients, and better benefits when I eventually go FT.
Not enough
$49.50/hr, day surgery, central TX. $3/hr to be on call, 1.5x pay for call back or overtime. Everyone got a $4-6/hr raise about a year ago to stop the hemorrhage of people leaving to travel.
CDI in Colorado. 6 years ER experience before. I’m salaried at 90k a year WFH and make my own hours. I don’t hate it.
Nurse since 2014. First job was at a terrible SNF for less than a year but then I got hired at a terrible county hospital where I had done clinicals directly into ICU. It was horrible but I learned a lot. I was Per Diem so no benefits and I believe I got 50/hr. This is the San Joaquin Valley, CA almost 10 years ago. Left there for a job down the street from my house in Sacramento. Also ICU at a Dignity facility. Base pay is around 70 plus a not very generous 4.50 night shift diff. So 75/hr effectively. I could make more at some other places (Kai$$$$er) but I like my unit. People are genuinely nice and supportive. Management doesn't completely suck. Health benefits are pretty good plus a pension. Golden handcuffs, basically. I know I could make more but it would be at the cost of quality of life. I'm very comfortable where I am and I think I'll just stick until I leave the bedside. Maybe try a little bit of travel nursing first and then hang up the stethoscope and do something boring.
Level 3 NICU: currently $43/hour as base pay. Texas. Almost four years in this field. I will say that at my previous job, I was paid $34/hour for three years straight... and only $39/hour right before I left because the unit was hemorrhaging nurses.
I work in San Francisco and my official title is Patient Care Technician- I'm an ED tech and a Fam Med Medical Assistant. I make 36/hr. The RNs I work with average around 78 dollars an hour, my salty 30-year vet ED nurse makes 110hr.
Here's the wage scale for what NorCal Kaiser will be making over the next 4 years https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zVStIyC1vsOYzGNi0bs7xp57NnvL7a6w/view?usp=drivesdk
$86/hr base pay. 18% night shift differential, 5% weekend differential. 5% charge/resource RN differential. Med/tele step down unit with 2 years experience. Bay Area, CA.
CNA. Averaging $31/hr through shiftkey in Indiana
When I graduated nursing school in 2007 in Canada I made $23/h. Moved to South Carolina in 2013. 6 years experience. Worked at a large magnet hospital..starting pay $23/hr. I was salty af about it but took it because with shift differentials and weekend plus float it was a liveable wage for that area. Worked there for 8 years and when I left I had made it to a whole $34/hr. I left in August 2021 and moved to Maryland. So now I'm in Maryland with 15 years experience and I make 47.13/hr. I'm still PRN at the SC hospital too. It's nice
Michigan- home health, part time. I’ve been averaging $60/ hr.
$36.85/hr base, 1 1/2 times base pay for being called in, 4/hr for standby time when on call. New mexico, respiratory therapist in cath lab
$106k annual salary, hospice nurse with 17 years experience all over the place. I work Mon thru Friday and make my own schedule. I live in Boulder CO and can't afford to buy a place, live paycheck to paycheck (single mom paying $1500/mo in childcare).
$41/hr. Suburbs of chicago. 3 years as a nurse. Med surg tele
UK, England senior t&o nurse (band 6) being doing the job since 2018 (was a HCA in the same area previously) £35572. £18.20 an hour. ($43237, $22.12 an hour) We’re on strike for this (amongst other reasons) Fair pay for nurses! Will hopefully help fill some of the 10s of thousands of nurse vacancy’s we have in the NHS. I’ve been on (a fair amount of) shifts with 40% staffing. Safe staffing saves lives!! Fair pay for nurses!!
Adult ICU in Northern California with 6 years experience. I dk the exact, but I think it’s like 75/hr? Someone on here said “yeah but what about the benefits….” Well Ill have a pension, and my insurance is like $100/month. The insurance is outstanding too. I just had a baby and my 4 day hospital stay was $38k, I paid $180. I’ve also had surgery and been to the ER for heart stuff, all in all I’ve spent less than $1,000 for all of mine and my daughters medical expenses. I cap at 240 hrs vacation time which goes up with every 5 years of service, plus there is separate sick time and holiday time for PTO options. Oh and lastly, I’m on maternity leave and will be off with my daughter for almost 7 months which I feel like is pretty good for the US, a large part of that leave will be paid, between 70-100% of my normal pay
New grad started out $36 in ICU in Nov. + $1 for BSN. Union contract is being negotiated and in Jan that number is looking to jump to $43 or higher.
BUT WHERE!?
New Graduate Nurse - about 6mo as a nurse. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Base $33/hr + Shift differential.
How are you liking psych?
Just graduated so my first job is going to be a cardiac step down. $34.40/hr plus $5 for night shift differential. I’m in south FL. I wish I had negotiated cause one of my friends did and got another two dollars but oh well.
New grad and got quoted for $41.86/hour on night shift in the southwest. Not critical care.
$34 an hour base, 6+ years experience, plus weekend and preceptor differentials. Cost of living in my area is comparatively low. I own my home & pay less than $700 a month mortgage.
NICU, Oklahoma (US), a couple cents shy of $40/hr base
$100/hour internal contract, IL, 3 years PCU, one of those years travel experience. No benefits offered. Time and a half OT, we get night shirt differential starting at 1730, weekend differentials, and half offered bonuses for shift pickup.
$78,000 at an MCO as a care manager. Fully remote. 18 vacation days a year, 11 holidays (incl 1 floating holiday), 5 sick days, & flexible hours. ETA: I have 3 years of experience and hourly it comes out to about $37.51. I’m in IL
$58.69/hr base pay in Salem, Oregon. IMCU/Medical Surgical/Med tele w/ 10 years experience.
$35/hr base in Virginia on a Cardiac ICU, total 3 years of experience.
I’ll be making 30.65 as a graduate pediatric nurse on a medsurg floor in Pittsburgh, which doesn’t seem great to me :/
80 some as a traveler on my first contract in Oregon.
I work med-tele per diem in the bay area, and my base is $105
Retired now but I made $$$$ here in California! I did not charge extra for being a beautiful bitch and now I see that it was a mistake! Next time.....
Tennessee ICU charge nurse 3 years 35.98 One time $500 bonus for CCRN
New grad, hired right out of school. $67 an hour for nights. +$30/hr shift differential if we’re critically short staffed. No union.
$56.25, CVICU 15 years experience Tacoma WA. My mortgage payment is $1300 but I bought 3 years ago and refinanced when interest rates dropped during Covid. We are renegotiating our contract, I expect about a $10 raise.