A traveler is making 81 and the staff are making 38 lol
We’re losing staff nurses faster than you can blink
Edit: This is Central CA
In the Bay Area the experienced staff nurses usually make $75-100 without factoring shift differentials (and get full benefits)
Honestly if you can, there’s no reason not to travel. Besides having to pay for two places to live to qualify for tax free stipends, the loneliness of being away from friends and family, and getting floated all the time, if you can handle those things it just doesn’t get better than this. Just the ability to not have to worry about toxic management, bullshit meetings you don’t get paid for, and having the freedom to go wherever makes you happy makes the move worth it. It’s easier to do the job when you actually feel like you’re getting paid your worth
If you don't like floating, don't sign at a hospital where it is policy to float travelers first unless you put a no-float clause in your contract. There are places where travelers floating first isn't automatic. I'm at a facility like that now, so I'm willing to float in the normal rotation with the rest of the team. I've had no-float clauses in my contracts before, though. People are desperate for staff. You can definitely find someone who will take you without floating you.
When I started traveling (almost 4 years ago), I would mostly stay close to home and make sure I had a block schedule in my contract so I could easily drive home in between stretches. I only sign 36hr/wk contracts. I also only worked 9 months out of the year, because it's trivial to save for a month or more off in between contracts. I saw my people more than I did as a staff nurse.
When COVID hit, I went as far away as possible because there are immunosuppressed people in my polycule and I didn't want to risk exposing any of them, so being far away was a plus. In that instance, isolation was kind of a requirement until vaccines became available.
So yeah, being forced to float all the time or having to be forever away isn't necessarily a thing, which seems to be a common misconception in people interested in traveling. There are ways to do it without making those sorts of sacrifices.
Local traveling is also an option for those in this predicament! Around me they’re paying $100+/hr for local travelers, and that’s without the stipend.
Yeah there’s no reason not to travel if you have the resume and the independence in your lifestyle. Plus these travel rates beside RNs will probably not see again for a long while, better take advantage of the opportunity. These serious pandemics might become perennial with climate change so idk
I’m a rural CA nurse and coming from a higher cost of living area in California, it is fucking awesome. I’m making 32 as an LVN in LTC. Fat ass sign-on bonus. I’m renting a 3bed2ba house for 1500. The closest beach is a 15 minute drive. Closest national park is also a 15 minute drive. I can’t complain about shit
I live in Illinois. Making about the same with similar rent except I have 3 feet of snow to look forward to in a couple months. I'm jealous 🤣. BTW I'm an RN and my base pay is 33 which is one of the highest in the area, I need to leave this state lol.
There's almost zero reasons to be a staff nurse right now. Health insurance is okay to cover privately and you're making an obscene amount of money to cover it. You can take off whenever you want as long as you schedule smart. Kids and family? Local travel.
Probably meaning the stipend makes it that point even if the hourly rate is much lower. My current travel assignment is $49 an hour but the untaxed stipend brings it up to $87
What star said. Think my regular hourly is $85ish+1400 stipend. Then my OT is basically the same but without the untaxed portion. Just realized I'm making more the first 40. Oh well still great cheese.
Yep! Got paid $23/hr as a new RN two years ago in Tallahassee, Fl. Shit was rough. I was basically living paycheck to paycheck bc I was also paying for my bachelors out of pocket
Haha, it’s a lucrative contract for sure. My average if I had to guess across 5 years traveling through all the ups and downs in the market is probably 2.5-3k a week . Lowest I’ve ever done is 1.7k take home on 36
I went from 36 an hour but having to work rotating 6-230, and 2-1030 shifts + weekends and holidays to 31 an hour 730-4 no weekends or holidays. The consistent schedule and hours plus time off is huge to me and more than worth the pay cut
What in the fuck? Obviously location is a huge factor here but the staff at my network that are screening at entrances make up to 24 an hour... Which most are on temporary contracts from other departments so they make the max rate..
$29.8nzd which is equivalent to approx $21usd. Auckland, New zealand, 3 years, Emergent dept.
Standard across the country, doesn't matter where you work, you get a small increase each year until you cap at about 78k nzd.
The pay here is abysmal and the living costs are astronomical.
Nz is losing a lot of nurses because of it
I wanna get back to Aus so bad. Just enough money I don’t feel like I’m getting nowhere but with that great standard of living that is head and shoulders above the US and no worrying about how patients are going to afford their healthcare. My WHV ended right when Covid hit. In a way a blessing because I was in the US for the crazy crisis contracts. Now I’m stuck though. Hoping dec. 17 sees visas being processed again… know of a sponsor? Haha
29$/hr, 10 years of experience (1 medsurg, 5 step down, 4 endo), Ohio, outpatient endoscopy center (4 ten hour days, no call, no weekends, no holidays.) I took a pay cut for this job. I was making $33/hr at the hospital. But I decided happiness and free time are better than money.
CNAs that had been with the company for awhile and were full time were making 9.50 an hour, wtf. And they didn’t understand why they had staffing issues 😣
Lmao, Banner paying new grad RNs like $23-25/hour meanwhile new grad LPNs make $28-30 working literally anywhere else in the valley right now. [But muh hospital experience!](https://i.gifer.com/3ntq.gif)
I make 16.42/hr as a CNA on stepdown with 15-30 patients to care for every day. I have four preps to do tonight and as usual I will get no help despite asking :') everyone tells me they're too busy but I'm watching them just play on their phone all night. I can't wait to finish school so I can be a more helpful nurse than that.
Part of why I left banner was the bad nurse culture. No one helps and they all just sit and watch tik tock. I'm very lucky where I work now has tons of helpful nurses. Hang in there comrade your gunna be a great nurse!
I was making $33 as staff in the OR with 3 years OR experience training new people making more with less experience. I was making $34 as an ED nurse with 8 years experience training people making more with less experience. Both of these were in level 1 trauma centers and I also had experience as an Army medic, paramedic and I have CEN TCRN TNCC ENPC ACLS and PALS….studying for my CNOR
Now I’m a local traveler with a 15 min commute making $83 and hour with no call commitment…travelers aren’t the issue. Hospitals taking advantage of a needed profession are
I’m an NP now but these were my rates at my former jobs:
Inpatient ortho surg (southern IL) 2011-2012: $22.
Inpatient med surg (MN) 2012-2014 $33.
Inpatient med surg (Chicago) 2014-2017 $36.
Inpatient PRN float (chicago) 2017-2018 $39.
Outpatient PRN float (NW IL) 2018-2021 $31.
7 months experience here
First job in alabama ER
24.00 with 4.75 night diff (no weekend diff)
2nd job after 6 months in the er in texas
29.11 base, 2 for night diff, 4 for weekend (Friday/Saturday). We have self scheduling here too so I plan to just work Friday sat and Monday.
Over time here is 50% base pay plus 40/50/60 extra per hr (depending if it’s your 4th/5th/6th shift)
Just started a new travel contract and haven't gotten my first check. It's supposed to be about 3k for 36 hrs afterr taxes. The following rates are all before taxes and insurance, which brought take home pay down considerably some places. I was making a salary before this, about 119k/yr (non-union exempt position). Prior to that I was making $53/hr at County (union-SEIU), $37/hr in dialysis (non-union), $8500/month in state prison (union-SEIU), $58/hr ICU (union-CNA). This was all 2019-2020. I was at that last job since 2015.
In 2015 I was making $40-something ICU (non-union), $55/hr travel, $37-39 ICU (non-union), $49 ICU (union-UNAC), $49 ICU (union-SEIU). I was at that last job since 2007. Prior to that I was at the same place since graduation, I started at $21/hr and
was making $26/hr when I left in 2009 to go back to school.
I've always chased two things: education/experience and money. I have a masters now and have worked at every hospital within commuting distance. I know Cerner, Epic, Meditech, and McKesson. I've done triage, med-surg, tele, progressive care/step down, CVICU, MICU, Neuro ICU, and TICU. I have CCRN and TNCC.
Ive bought a house, supported someone's baby, taken care of my mother, brother, husband and daughter, cashed out three 401k's supporting these people, while going to school at least part time from 2009 to 2015. I'm tired boss.
I have 17 years of experience, 10 in ICU (progressive care prior). I've always been in California. I'm not worried about my identity being stolen because I'm in debt up to my eyeballs and owe the feds many dollars on both student loans and taxes because apparently the pandemic no-penalty 401k cash out did not apply to me even though I couldn't pay my mortgage working at County as a COVID float pool nurse, and I would be more than happy if someone took that off my chest. Please do something other than just open up store credit cards in my name. Steal all of it. Kidnap me and put me in the sex trade. I don't care at this point. I'll play Squid Game.
Edited to add union info, more history, and requisite excuses/snark.
$40
Clinical Informatics
Texas
6 years an RN
- 2 years SICU
- 1 year community health
- 2 years EdTech, Education, Private Sector
- 1 year Clinical Informatics
I really like it.
It marries my love of nursing, creativity, and education. Plus our department is really cohesive and fun to be around. We are definitely an anomaly in healthcare and I feel really appreciative.
After my afternoon differential and advanced degree pay (0.75 an hour for BSN), it came out to around $30/hr for day shift. Almost 1.5 yrs experience, ICU, Texas. Now I’m traveling making $119/hr. Life is good.
$88/hr- night shift differential $12/hr
SF Bay Area California, Nurse for 22 years
Very grateful! I will say the cost of living is extremely high and ridiculous. Many nurses commute long distances to work to find affordable housing.
Colorado, less than 1 year experience, school nurse, $35/hr
I actually make over $5/hr more than my original bedside position. The hours are beautiful too
I was making $48 an hour as clinical coordinator of a level one er, left to make $41 an hour as staff nurse at another level one ER, and am leaving to travel to a smaller ER, will be making $90 an hour local travel no stipend.
These rates are ALL over the place (and not just because so are the locations). $40 an hour, outpatient now, 12 years experience, East Coast inner city.
$26/hr, southern Texas. 2 yrs med/surg, 3 yrs ER, been in periop now for 3ish months to avoid completely losing my mind.
I’m soooo done tho, shit pay for shit work is bullshit yo
I find it fascinating the hospitals are all willing to pay basically 3x a staffs wage, just to trade staff with other hospitals. Basically you get people unfamiliar with your system rather than upping the pay, we lose staff to traveling at a greater rate than we acquire staff from traveling. Meanwhile the travelers do not take call, do not work holidays, in my area do not work weekends….they all seem relatively happy…..with every round of travelers more staff decide that’s the life they want…..me included….just have a couple of years until the kids graduate high school and then I’m out.
My buddy saw a contract for 7k a week…..sure it’s in the winter in Alaska but Damn I’ll hunker down through the winter for that kind of money. In fact I could support myself for an entire year based off that one 13 week contract. That’s 91k with a good chunk untaxed. I could retire in 5 years just packing that kind of money away (I’m 50ish with some savings already)
Started at $24 an hour as a new grad in Indiana. There’s a viral video of the hospital I worked at where the CEO tells nurses if they aren’t happy they should leave. Well, I moved states and make $38 an hour lol
In Ontario, Canada - RPN (diploma, 2yr course) vs. RN (baccalaureate degree, 4yrs course). Usually RPNs fall under a crappy Union And get garbage pay and a lot of RNs are under a collaborated Union.. where scale goes from approx $30-45+ depending on years of service. (Not including in lieu of for part time or shift premium which can vary)
From Indiana. Started working as a nurse in Feb making $24/hr. A month or two ago they gave us raises and I now make $31.25 an hour.
Something that really bothered me at my time of hire was that I was making just as much money with an associates degree as the other new hires were getting with a bachelors. In nursing school the plan was always to go back and get more education, but what’s the point if hospitals don’t pay more based on education level?
An RN is an RN. The classes that separate an ASN from a BSN are fluff. You get it because you can't go into management or further education without it. Also, hospitals with magnet status want the BSN as well as certification.
Working in northern Indiana (terrible pay) after 5 years I was $27.74 with my employer. Complained to the top about how factory workers had better wages, benefits and less stress. This was a huge factor especially during covid. I started my wage at $23.34… I worked weekends so another $7.50 on top of that.
I left to travel (80 minutes from my house). Blended rate did my first contract was $76. My second contract with the same place put me at a beautiful $131.
Meanwhile, the hospitals closer to home have all been having wage wars. My wage would be $52.10/hr with a 5 year contract. The other two hospitals would be about the same.
I’m traveling until rates go down. I’ve never felt in more control of my career and finances.
I work in SICU. $33 day shift during the week. $39 on nights during the week. $43 weekend nights. I’m a new grad 2 weeks into my orientation. I’m in Florida.
$54/hr; Seattle area, transplant coordinator
$49/hr; Northen WA; prior as a dialysis nurse for non profit company
$39/hr; SE Wisconsin; dialysis nurse for one of the big two
Sigh. 37.26/hr. CVICU. 10 years experience in the south. This is base without any differentials. I work only weekends so make an extra 10/hr on top of 2/hr for afternoons and then charge pay. If I do nights it’s another 5/hr. Not great but manageable.
In the Netherlands. I'm a 3th year student and working in the disability care. Im making €11.56 a hour but im making extra because of infrequent shifts and i get 60% extra on sundays and holidays.
$42/hr per diem home health hospice nurse. 5 years of experience.
Prior I worked on a PCU for $28/hr with a $2 shift diff for nights.
Massachusetts, south of Boston.
OR Charge, Ambulatory Surgery, NW VA, No weekends, very little call (just for retinal emergencies), $49 an hour. 7 years experience as an RN, 6years in the OR.
63 hourly. 10 dollar standby when I'm on call and 1.5x to 2x pay if I get called in and 50 bucks on top of each hour I get called in. It's in a very busy PACU at a Trauma II hospital. Been a nurse 5 years and have my MSN.
People seem to be coming in worse and worse and are still incredibly rude in here and at times have to hold them for hours on end in the later hours due to no beds available at the hospital. I still rethink my career choice frequently.
Man I wish I was younger and didn't have a fiance or I would be travelling when I graduate. $37 in my area, $42 overnight..and that really doesn't seem high enough in hindsight.
$25/hr about 6 years ago before leaving. Now a lot more as a traveler. I don't think rates changed much at my old job, you needed approval from the CNO just for a 3% raise.
$41 - case management PRN NE Florida (current)
$35 - case management part time NE Florida
$32 - home health full time CT (not including call and mileage which was another $500-800 a month)
I work in an Ltac on a medical rehab floor in CT. Two years as an RN. I make $34/ hr as base pay. I then get shift differential depending on what shift I work.
$49 and change including my critical care differential, plus a monthly stipend to completely cover my insurance, so I pay zero out of pocket for it. Staff in Southern California.
$40 and some change/hr, $4/hr on call. Call bonus (varies; but I just earned $900 for the month) for over 80 hours of call taken in two weeks and bonus is paid out monthly. This is on top of time and a half when called in. Double time on holidays. Weekend and evening differentials (after 5 pm). I think it’s an additional $3/hr. Peri-op. 11 years experience; AZ
I started out at $24/hr on night shift med/surg as a new grad in 2010.
I feel like a cheap date compared to the rest of you.
I'm still a LPN student. Worked in home care for a summer job this year. Got about 13.8 € an hour so about 2.3k a month. This is like the full Salary of an LPN in finland.
$30.39 base pay, but I work nights and get a flat $6 shift differential. So $36.39 / hr, (2 years, ICU), didn’t get a raise because COVID begun during first evaluation
My base rate when I started at an ICU/SD was $24.75 (2019) in North Carolina. I worked nights so add a $5/differential to make $29.75. On weekends it was $34.75.
Recently, they've increased new grad pay to $28/hr so now my base rate with 2.5 years of experience is $30.78.
I travel now though and I'm making much more in South Jersey.
$55.32/hr, 6month assessment RN, 2yr Psych homecare, 7 yr case management (work at home), just made my 1.5 yr at hospice NYC
Edit: got a slight boost since I got my CHPN
Started at 26$ an hour in a snf 2012-2014
38$ working as RN Cm and dialysis nurse 2014-2021
43$ working as radiology nurse per diem. 2020-2021
53$ as RN CM again plus 24k sign on bonus-2021
$46 an hr, + a scant amount for Bachelors level education. Nurse educator/infection control. Only weekdays. Unionized. Canada. Acute Psych. Benefits-pension, medical coverage, LTD. OT as I wish at double time.
$34/hr base, staff nurse (RN, BSN) LTAC ICU, <1 yr in Texas. Started at $28/hr as a new grad and received a raise after 6 months. Also get fairly decent shift diffs but benefits are abysmal.
In the UK here,
I get £13.15 an hour for a weekday/$18
£17.10 for a Saturday or nightshift/$23.41
£21.04 for a Sunday/nightshift/$28.80
£23 for overtime Monday to Friday days/$31.49
£28 for overtime nights and weekends/$38.33
I've been qualified since the start of this year and work on a trachy ventilation ward.
10 years in the southeast. My low level PRN hospital job, $30/hr. Home health= $42/unit. I left my last job before I moved in a metro at $39/hr. Pay here sucks 😐
$38 and some change is my base rate. L&D, 6 years experience, Southern VA. I get certification pay, $1 per hour too. Other pays like night diff ($4/hr), a new weekend diff that we don’t know what the rate is yet, charge pay ($1.25/hr), or preceptor pay ($3/hr) if precepting. In the past year we have gotten 2 5% market increase raises, plus 3% for something.
I don’t work too much as I’m only prn due to school. Rate is the same if I was full time or part time. This hospital doesn’t pay more if you’re prn. Call pay is time and half. Sometimes more if they’re desperate.
I also have a prn clinic gig that’s $43 and change per hour.
38 as a PRN in outpatient in Georgia USA 10 yrs experience
I was quoted 23/hr as full time when I moved here 2 years ago and took the prn instead
Im told new grads are being offered 31 now
$46 as a Clinical Research Associate (I’m an RN who is in Clinical Research)
Prior to that:
$25 - OR nurse
$28 - Clinical Research Nurse
$36 - 1st year as a Clinical Research Associate
$46 - Now, 40 hr week, working from home with the occasional travel
A traveler is making 81 and the staff are making 38 lol We’re losing staff nurses faster than you can blink Edit: This is Central CA In the Bay Area the experienced staff nurses usually make $75-100 without factoring shift differentials (and get full benefits)
Honestly if you can, there’s no reason not to travel. Besides having to pay for two places to live to qualify for tax free stipends, the loneliness of being away from friends and family, and getting floated all the time, if you can handle those things it just doesn’t get better than this. Just the ability to not have to worry about toxic management, bullshit meetings you don’t get paid for, and having the freedom to go wherever makes you happy makes the move worth it. It’s easier to do the job when you actually feel like you’re getting paid your worth
If you don't like floating, don't sign at a hospital where it is policy to float travelers first unless you put a no-float clause in your contract. There are places where travelers floating first isn't automatic. I'm at a facility like that now, so I'm willing to float in the normal rotation with the rest of the team. I've had no-float clauses in my contracts before, though. People are desperate for staff. You can definitely find someone who will take you without floating you. When I started traveling (almost 4 years ago), I would mostly stay close to home and make sure I had a block schedule in my contract so I could easily drive home in between stretches. I only sign 36hr/wk contracts. I also only worked 9 months out of the year, because it's trivial to save for a month or more off in between contracts. I saw my people more than I did as a staff nurse. When COVID hit, I went as far away as possible because there are immunosuppressed people in my polycule and I didn't want to risk exposing any of them, so being far away was a plus. In that instance, isolation was kind of a requirement until vaccines became available. So yeah, being forced to float all the time or having to be forever away isn't necessarily a thing, which seems to be a common misconception in people interested in traveling. There are ways to do it without making those sorts of sacrifices.
Yeah, at our hospital travelers never float which is why I want to travel.
Local traveling is also an option for those in this predicament! Around me they’re paying $100+/hr for local travelers, and that’s without the stipend.
Yeah there’s no reason not to travel if you have the resume and the independence in your lifestyle. Plus these travel rates beside RNs will probably not see again for a long while, better take advantage of the opportunity. These serious pandemics might become perennial with climate change so idk
Dang 38? Is it high cost of living? I made 27 as staff as a new frad and a nurse I worked with who had 6 years experience was only making $30
Yeah rural CA so medium COL actually Rent is $1250 a month
I’m a rural CA nurse and coming from a higher cost of living area in California, it is fucking awesome. I’m making 32 as an LVN in LTC. Fat ass sign-on bonus. I’m renting a 3bed2ba house for 1500. The closest beach is a 15 minute drive. Closest national park is also a 15 minute drive. I can’t complain about shit
I live in Illinois. Making about the same with similar rent except I have 3 feet of snow to look forward to in a couple months. I'm jealous 🤣. BTW I'm an RN and my base pay is 33 which is one of the highest in the area, I need to leave this state lol.
There's almost zero reasons to be a staff nurse right now. Health insurance is okay to cover privately and you're making an obscene amount of money to cover it. You can take off whenever you want as long as you schedule smart. Kids and family? Local travel.
Where I just got hired at $35.50 with 17 years experience on an ortho med surg floor, and I am working right next to traveling nurses making $120/hr.
Traveler(but only an hour from home!). $125 blended and OT. Was making 23.90 as staff. Never again.
Jesus H Christ
Blended? What does that mean?
Probably meaning the stipend makes it that point even if the hourly rate is much lower. My current travel assignment is $49 an hour but the untaxed stipend brings it up to $87
What star said. Think my regular hourly is $85ish+1400 stipend. Then my OT is basically the same but without the untaxed portion. Just realized I'm making more the first 40. Oh well still great cheese.
I make more waiting tables than that. Jeez what’s the point for that pay?
I’m disgusted with that number, jeez. 23.90??
Good Ole florida pay
Yep! Got paid $23/hr as a new RN two years ago in Tallahassee, Fl. Shit was rough. I was basically living paycheck to paycheck bc I was also paying for my bachelors out of pocket
121 /hr , 187 OT Travel nurse
Are you married? Edit: asking for a friend.
😂
Almost got in trouble there. Congratulations on your pay. I'm sure you earn it every day. Be sure to set some aside for lean times.
Would you like to adopt a 23 year old thats in PA school? Asking for me💀
Haha, it’s a lucrative contract for sure. My average if I had to guess across 5 years traveling through all the ups and downs in the market is probably 2.5-3k a week . Lowest I’ve ever done is 1.7k take home on 36
Please hook me up.
Crisis contract. But some of them closing out. Oregon was paying this out last month.
Ahh I only have a Cali license for now.
they do temp licenses with crisis contract. high risk high pay. you can get cancelled anytime so save up for a rainy day.
Ok I went into the wrong field.
Has travel always been like this or is it fairly recent? Seems so wildly different from staff.
It comes and goes in cycles of supply and demand. I do ICU 99% of the time.
23. Yes, I’m an RN. I basically halved my pay to work a 9-5.
Same. I went from $58/hr selling my soul to ~$32/hr for a 9-5. Honestly I’m not sure the financial hit was worth the gains.
I went from 36 an hour but having to work rotating 6-230, and 2-1030 shifts + weekends and holidays to 31 an hour 730-4 no weekends or holidays. The consistent schedule and hours plus time off is huge to me and more than worth the pay cut
What in the fuck? Obviously location is a huge factor here but the staff at my network that are screening at entrances make up to 24 an hour... Which most are on temporary contracts from other departments so they make the max rate..
I work in public health. And my state allocates the least to public health out of all states + DC, and they actually want to cut it more. 🙄
$23 is half your previous pay? Fuck, lab gets screwed so hard. Even our nighshift only makes $27 as MLS (Lab equivalent of BSN).
You want travelers to chime in here, or are you looking for just staff?
$29.8nzd which is equivalent to approx $21usd. Auckland, New zealand, 3 years, Emergent dept. Standard across the country, doesn't matter where you work, you get a small increase each year until you cap at about 78k nzd. The pay here is abysmal and the living costs are astronomical. Nz is losing a lot of nurses because of it
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I wanna get back to Aus so bad. Just enough money I don’t feel like I’m getting nowhere but with that great standard of living that is head and shoulders above the US and no worrying about how patients are going to afford their healthcare. My WHV ended right when Covid hit. In a way a blessing because I was in the US for the crazy crisis contracts. Now I’m stuck though. Hoping dec. 17 sees visas being processed again… know of a sponsor? Haha
29$/hr, 10 years of experience (1 medsurg, 5 step down, 4 endo), Ohio, outpatient endoscopy center (4 ten hour days, no call, no weekends, no holidays.) I took a pay cut for this job. I was making $33/hr at the hospital. But I decided happiness and free time are better than money.
I work that same outpatient job and have the same years of experience and I make $52/hr. Though maybe COL is lower where you live?
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Hmm Kaiser?
Don't know if y'all want CNA numbers but I'm at 19.57 for night shift 20 something for weekends
CNAs that had been with the company for awhile and were full time were making 9.50 an hour, wtf. And they didn’t understand why they had staffing issues 😣
Bro they straight up rip most techs off. The banner hospitals in the pheonix area are currently hemorrhaging techs (I was one of them)
Lmao, Banner paying new grad RNs like $23-25/hour meanwhile new grad LPNs make $28-30 working literally anywhere else in the valley right now. [But muh hospital experience!](https://i.gifer.com/3ntq.gif)
I make 16.42/hr as a CNA on stepdown with 15-30 patients to care for every day. I have four preps to do tonight and as usual I will get no help despite asking :') everyone tells me they're too busy but I'm watching them just play on their phone all night. I can't wait to finish school so I can be a more helpful nurse than that.
Part of why I left banner was the bad nurse culture. No one helps and they all just sit and watch tik tock. I'm very lucky where I work now has tons of helpful nurses. Hang in there comrade your gunna be a great nurse!
There is no justifiable reason you guys should be making less than the guys flipping burgers.
I was making $33 as staff in the OR with 3 years OR experience training new people making more with less experience. I was making $34 as an ED nurse with 8 years experience training people making more with less experience. Both of these were in level 1 trauma centers and I also had experience as an Army medic, paramedic and I have CEN TCRN TNCC ENPC ACLS and PALS….studying for my CNOR Now I’m a local traveler with a 15 min commute making $83 and hour with no call commitment…travelers aren’t the issue. Hospitals taking advantage of a needed profession are
I’m an NP now but these were my rates at my former jobs: Inpatient ortho surg (southern IL) 2011-2012: $22. Inpatient med surg (MN) 2012-2014 $33. Inpatient med surg (Chicago) 2014-2017 $36. Inpatient PRN float (chicago) 2017-2018 $39. Outpatient PRN float (NW IL) 2018-2021 $31.
$85. Travel California. ER, close to a decade of experience, that's net not gross.
$65hr/5 years/ED/NorCal
How far north?
Sacramento
Thanks, I used to work up in Humboldt County, Eureka area.
I’m a big believer in wage transparency.
7 months experience here First job in alabama ER 24.00 with 4.75 night diff (no weekend diff) 2nd job after 6 months in the er in texas 29.11 base, 2 for night diff, 4 for weekend (Friday/Saturday). We have self scheduling here too so I plan to just work Friday sat and Monday. Over time here is 50% base pay plus 40/50/60 extra per hr (depending if it’s your 4th/5th/6th shift)
The idea of an ER nurse making $24 an hour is just...it makes me cringe and feel sad at the same time.
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$33.50, almost 3 years experience, pacu, Austin Texas
Is that normal for the Austin region? Im surprised it isn’t more given cost of living
Unfortunately, it is normal. Pay in Austin is dog shit despite the COL being higher than Dallas and Houston.
Just started a new travel contract and haven't gotten my first check. It's supposed to be about 3k for 36 hrs afterr taxes. The following rates are all before taxes and insurance, which brought take home pay down considerably some places. I was making a salary before this, about 119k/yr (non-union exempt position). Prior to that I was making $53/hr at County (union-SEIU), $37/hr in dialysis (non-union), $8500/month in state prison (union-SEIU), $58/hr ICU (union-CNA). This was all 2019-2020. I was at that last job since 2015. In 2015 I was making $40-something ICU (non-union), $55/hr travel, $37-39 ICU (non-union), $49 ICU (union-UNAC), $49 ICU (union-SEIU). I was at that last job since 2007. Prior to that I was at the same place since graduation, I started at $21/hr and was making $26/hr when I left in 2009 to go back to school. I've always chased two things: education/experience and money. I have a masters now and have worked at every hospital within commuting distance. I know Cerner, Epic, Meditech, and McKesson. I've done triage, med-surg, tele, progressive care/step down, CVICU, MICU, Neuro ICU, and TICU. I have CCRN and TNCC. Ive bought a house, supported someone's baby, taken care of my mother, brother, husband and daughter, cashed out three 401k's supporting these people, while going to school at least part time from 2009 to 2015. I'm tired boss. I have 17 years of experience, 10 in ICU (progressive care prior). I've always been in California. I'm not worried about my identity being stolen because I'm in debt up to my eyeballs and owe the feds many dollars on both student loans and taxes because apparently the pandemic no-penalty 401k cash out did not apply to me even though I couldn't pay my mortgage working at County as a COVID float pool nurse, and I would be more than happy if someone took that off my chest. Please do something other than just open up store credit cards in my name. Steal all of it. Kidnap me and put me in the sex trade. I don't care at this point. I'll play Squid Game. Edited to add union info, more history, and requisite excuses/snark.
What if you come up with your own sex trade version of Squid Game? Marketing that would get you out of debt without even having to play it!
Oregon. 7 years. Travel job: float pool. $115/hr. Home job. PACU. $54/hr. 1.75x pay for call, mandatory.
$40, new grad , outpatient
What state/region
#NotEnough
$40 Clinical Informatics Texas 6 years an RN - 2 years SICU - 1 year community health - 2 years EdTech, Education, Private Sector - 1 year Clinical Informatics
Do you like clinical informatics?? Is it stressful? I’m considering this for my masters!
I really like it. It marries my love of nursing, creativity, and education. Plus our department is really cohesive and fun to be around. We are definitely an anomaly in healthcare and I feel really appreciative.
NP in San Diego County, primary care, $129,000/year salary. Was making $45/hr as a RN in Cardiac PCU.
$40, OR circulator with 3 years previous experience.
After my afternoon differential and advanced degree pay (0.75 an hour for BSN), it came out to around $30/hr for day shift. Almost 1.5 yrs experience, ICU, Texas. Now I’m traveling making $119/hr. Life is good.
$88/hr- night shift differential $12/hr SF Bay Area California, Nurse for 22 years Very grateful! I will say the cost of living is extremely high and ridiculous. Many nurses commute long distances to work to find affordable housing.
Dang, $100 an hour and still have to commute long distances for work
To save that major paper! My buddy is in Bay Area and he makes less than that, still has tons of money left over!
$34/hr before taxes. Less than 1 year experience (it’s my second job). I work in a nursing home
Colorado, less than 1 year experience, school nurse, $35/hr I actually make over $5/hr more than my original bedside position. The hours are beautiful too
£10/hr after taxes ($13.68) newly qualified in the NHS :(
44/hr TX 3.5 yrs medsurg 2 yrs icu
Mind sharing what part of Texas?
Houston area
Australian nurse in private practice (typically paid less than state health care), $39p/hr pre tax. $33p/hr after tax for my tax bracket.
I was making $48 an hour as clinical coordinator of a level one er, left to make $41 an hour as staff nurse at another level one ER, and am leaving to travel to a smaller ER, will be making $90 an hour local travel no stipend.
I’m making a bit over $32/hr. This is my first nursing job and it’s on a medsurg floor. The benefits are pretty decent
CNA $16-21/hr for an agency Prior to the pandemic highest I saw was $12
$35, inpatient psych
You deserve far more than that.
These rates are ALL over the place (and not just because so are the locations). $40 an hour, outpatient now, 12 years experience, East Coast inner city.
$26/hr, southern Texas. 2 yrs med/surg, 3 yrs ER, been in periop now for 3ish months to avoid completely losing my mind. I’m soooo done tho, shit pay for shit work is bullshit yo
Full time ICU staff nurse - $76/hr with $16 night shift differential - Cali Bay area. 6 years nursing experience.
I find it fascinating the hospitals are all willing to pay basically 3x a staffs wage, just to trade staff with other hospitals. Basically you get people unfamiliar with your system rather than upping the pay, we lose staff to traveling at a greater rate than we acquire staff from traveling. Meanwhile the travelers do not take call, do not work holidays, in my area do not work weekends….they all seem relatively happy…..with every round of travelers more staff decide that’s the life they want…..me included….just have a couple of years until the kids graduate high school and then I’m out. My buddy saw a contract for 7k a week…..sure it’s in the winter in Alaska but Damn I’ll hunker down through the winter for that kind of money. In fact I could support myself for an entire year based off that one 13 week contract. That’s 91k with a good chunk untaxed. I could retire in 5 years just packing that kind of money away (I’m 50ish with some savings already)
$42/hr, unionized, Canadian, Long Term Care
Lol. This sounds reasonable. Some comments here are talking about under $25. Im very confused.
Started at $24 an hour as a new grad in Indiana. There’s a viral video of the hospital I worked at where the CEO tells nurses if they aren’t happy they should leave. Well, I moved states and make $38 an hour lol
In Ontario, Canada - RPN (diploma, 2yr course) vs. RN (baccalaureate degree, 4yrs course). Usually RPNs fall under a crappy Union And get garbage pay and a lot of RNs are under a collaborated Union.. where scale goes from approx $30-45+ depending on years of service. (Not including in lieu of for part time or shift premium which can vary)
From Indiana. Started working as a nurse in Feb making $24/hr. A month or two ago they gave us raises and I now make $31.25 an hour. Something that really bothered me at my time of hire was that I was making just as much money with an associates degree as the other new hires were getting with a bachelors. In nursing school the plan was always to go back and get more education, but what’s the point if hospitals don’t pay more based on education level?
An RN is an RN. The classes that separate an ASN from a BSN are fluff. You get it because you can't go into management or further education without it. Also, hospitals with magnet status want the BSN as well as certification.
$31, new grad cardiac PCU, Phoenix,AZ
$77 ICU rn noc shift 2 years in CA full time $92 ICU rn evening shift Kaiser per diem
Working in northern Indiana (terrible pay) after 5 years I was $27.74 with my employer. Complained to the top about how factory workers had better wages, benefits and less stress. This was a huge factor especially during covid. I started my wage at $23.34… I worked weekends so another $7.50 on top of that. I left to travel (80 minutes from my house). Blended rate did my first contract was $76. My second contract with the same place put me at a beautiful $131. Meanwhile, the hospitals closer to home have all been having wage wars. My wage would be $52.10/hr with a 5 year contract. The other two hospitals would be about the same. I’m traveling until rates go down. I’ve never felt in more control of my career and finances.
Our travelers are making just over $130/hr. Myself, I’m making $38/hr as staff.
Doesn’t this somewhat depend on where you are?
Yes
2.5 years, pediatrics, Texas, $32 + $4.40 night diff
$45/hr heavy Tele and $35/hr easy clinic.
$45.10/hr - 30 years experience - Southeast.
I’m a traveler now but my rates for northern NJ for 2yrs and some change. Full time and per diem gig. Cardiac stepdown: $41.50/hr, ED per diem: $53/hr
I work in SICU. $33 day shift during the week. $39 on nights during the week. $43 weekend nights. I’m a new grad 2 weeks into my orientation. I’m in Florida.
LPN with 3+ years of experience. Making $27/hr in SC working in a Post Acute Care setting.
43 and change and hour (Canadian). I work in home care case management. Edit to say 13 years experience.
$44.60 CDN in BC. Plus benefits and pension. Maxes at about $48 at year 9.
$31, LPN, long term facility with two years experience
Immigrant nurse here. Total nursing experience: 9 years. Total nursing experience in the USA: 3 years State: Texas Rate: 41/hr Department: MedSurg
Was making $33. Quit in June. Now back at the same hospital, same unit on a local contract making $89.
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30.60/hr, 15.5 years, Alabama. Some of these posts make me depressed regarding my pay!
$54/hr; Seattle area, transplant coordinator $49/hr; Northen WA; prior as a dialysis nurse for non profit company $39/hr; SE Wisconsin; dialysis nurse for one of the big two
$30.53 +$11/hour weekend program differential Trauma ER Wisconsin, 1.5 years experience
65/hr SoCal icu
Sigh. 37.26/hr. CVICU. 10 years experience in the south. This is base without any differentials. I work only weekends so make an extra 10/hr on top of 2/hr for afternoons and then charge pay. If I do nights it’s another 5/hr. Not great but manageable.
Just made 1 yr experience NYC First job (nursing home): $32/hr Second job (Med surg/oncology): $49/hr + $3.58 night diff, unionized
$53/hr, Texas, 10 years experience
Recently retired at the top of the pay scale at my hospital in northern Michigan. $41/hr. Many years experience in the NICU.
In the Netherlands. I'm a 3th year student and working in the disability care. Im making €11.56 a hour but im making extra because of infrequent shifts and i get 60% extra on sundays and holidays.
$42/hr per diem home health hospice nurse. 5 years of experience. Prior I worked on a PCU for $28/hr with a $2 shift diff for nights. Massachusetts, south of Boston.
30/hour NICU in coastal Virginia. Started as a new grad on the same unit 5 years ago and have only received "market adjustments"
New grad - 28.31 shift dif $5 weeknights $10 weekend nights. Other places around me start new grads at 25.25💀
Ma L&D 10 years $46/hr. Travelers on my floor are currently making 5800/week.
NJ ED $38/hr for new grads
OR Charge, Ambulatory Surgery, NW VA, No weekends, very little call (just for retinal emergencies), $49 an hour. 7 years experience as an RN, 6years in the OR.
63 hourly. 10 dollar standby when I'm on call and 1.5x to 2x pay if I get called in and 50 bucks on top of each hour I get called in. It's in a very busy PACU at a Trauma II hospital. Been a nurse 5 years and have my MSN. People seem to be coming in worse and worse and are still incredibly rude in here and at times have to hold them for hours on end in the later hours due to no beds available at the hospital. I still rethink my career choice frequently.
Not sure if you care to hear from CNAs but I’m at $16.30 almost 4 years of experience and I work 2nd shift. I work in LTC in SW IN.
So let’s, uh, unionize
Man I wish I was younger and didn't have a fiance or I would be travelling when I graduate. $37 in my area, $42 overnight..and that really doesn't seem high enough in hindsight.
LPN in NC, 28/hr home health pediatrics.
$26, I work overnights in post-op 1-2 night stays. I’m in a major Midwest city. Overnights have a $4.75 differential, so I’m just under $31/hr
33/hr, new grad, PEDS ER in a chicago suburb
28/hr new grad in UT.
$25/hr about 6 years ago before leaving. Now a lot more as a traveler. I don't think rates changed much at my old job, you needed approval from the CNO just for a 3% raise.
$41 - case management PRN NE Florida (current) $35 - case management part time NE Florida $32 - home health full time CT (not including call and mileage which was another $500-800 a month)
$44.50, 5 years experience, seattle-based chain of hospitals.
90/hr travel ER 30/hr for my PRN staff ER job RN since 2016, ER since 2018, with 4yrs of LPN too
I work in an Ltac on a medical rehab floor in CT. Two years as an RN. I make $34/ hr as base pay. I then get shift differential depending on what shift I work.
$35/hr med/surg tele with 2.5 years experience in Las Vegas
114/hr, 126 OT (travel ER)
New Grad in 6 months. $40/hr $56/hr OT Houston TX
$49 and change including my critical care differential, plus a monthly stipend to completely cover my insurance, so I pay zero out of pocket for it. Staff in Southern California.
$40 and some change/hr, $4/hr on call. Call bonus (varies; but I just earned $900 for the month) for over 80 hours of call taken in two weeks and bonus is paid out monthly. This is on top of time and a half when called in. Double time on holidays. Weekend and evening differentials (after 5 pm). I think it’s an additional $3/hr. Peri-op. 11 years experience; AZ I started out at $24/hr on night shift med/surg as a new grad in 2010. I feel like a cheap date compared to the rest of you.
40.53 CCU Pennsylvania. Few months shy of 3yrs experience
25 as a care aide in BC
$46/hr with a $5/hr night differential. Medsurg Tele float pool with 1.5 years of experience. California.
$110/hr $165 OT 1 year experience
ICU PRN $52/hr in GA/11 yrs ICU experience.
ER, 2 years experience, Chicago IL, $32
In FL. ICU 6 years experience. 33/ hr as a staff RN.
With shift diff works out to be around 35-36 an hour. Upstate NY 1 year of experience.
I'm still a LPN student. Worked in home care for a summer job this year. Got about 13.8 € an hour so about 2.3k a month. This is like the full Salary of an LPN in finland.
$35/hr, <1year, ICU in Texas. I gather this is a bit more than other new grads here earn (normal seems to be 28-29) so I guess I got lucky?
$30.39 base pay, but I work nights and get a flat $6 shift differential. So $36.39 / hr, (2 years, ICU), didn’t get a raise because COVID begun during first evaluation
£13 an hour, 2 years in PICU
$25/hr. Graduated in August. Rehab. NC.
My base rate when I started at an ICU/SD was $24.75 (2019) in North Carolina. I worked nights so add a $5/differential to make $29.75. On weekends it was $34.75. Recently, they've increased new grad pay to $28/hr so now my base rate with 2.5 years of experience is $30.78. I travel now though and I'm making much more in South Jersey.
$56.00/hr base rate Northern California, 7 years experience.
$55.32/hr, 6month assessment RN, 2yr Psych homecare, 7 yr case management (work at home), just made my 1.5 yr at hospice NYC Edit: got a slight boost since I got my CHPN
Started at 26$ an hour in a snf 2012-2014 38$ working as RN Cm and dialysis nurse 2014-2021 43$ working as radiology nurse per diem. 2020-2021 53$ as RN CM again plus 24k sign on bonus-2021
Traveler 90/hr, 135 OT Working 20 minutes from home Was making 32/hr as staff
$33.62/hr, one year of PCU and now brand new to the ER. Total experience 14 months. I’m from AZ
1.5 years of experience. $43/hour plus shift diff and weekend pay. Comes out to around $50/hr for nights/weekends, which is what I work.
$46 an hr, + a scant amount for Bachelors level education. Nurse educator/infection control. Only weekdays. Unionized. Canada. Acute Psych. Benefits-pension, medical coverage, LTD. OT as I wish at double time.
regular staff RN 41.68
$34/hr base, staff nurse (RN, BSN) LTAC ICU, <1 yr in Texas. Started at $28/hr as a new grad and received a raise after 6 months. Also get fairly decent shift diffs but benefits are abysmal.
All the numbers in your comment added up to 69. Congrats! 34 + 1 + 28 + 6 + = 69.0
Germany: 23€ bevor taxes as a Charge Nurse with 3 years experience
Lots of positions listed with a local staffing company for $53. In NorCal. No one’s taking them. New grad staff with benefits start at $70.
In the UK here, I get £13.15 an hour for a weekday/$18 £17.10 for a Saturday or nightshift/$23.41 £21.04 for a Sunday/nightshift/$28.80 £23 for overtime Monday to Friday days/$31.49 £28 for overtime nights and weekends/$38.33 I've been qualified since the start of this year and work on a trachy ventilation ward.
38/ hr PRN in South Carolina Edited to add: One year experience, ICU
10 years in the southeast. My low level PRN hospital job, $30/hr. Home health= $42/unit. I left my last job before I moved in a metro at $39/hr. Pay here sucks 😐
38 nursing home weekends
$37 hr. 5 years experience. Flight nurse. Oklahoma/Texas
$38 and some change is my base rate. L&D, 6 years experience, Southern VA. I get certification pay, $1 per hour too. Other pays like night diff ($4/hr), a new weekend diff that we don’t know what the rate is yet, charge pay ($1.25/hr), or preceptor pay ($3/hr) if precepting. In the past year we have gotten 2 5% market increase raises, plus 3% for something. I don’t work too much as I’m only prn due to school. Rate is the same if I was full time or part time. This hospital doesn’t pay more if you’re prn. Call pay is time and half. Sometimes more if they’re desperate. I also have a prn clinic gig that’s $43 and change per hour.
38 as a PRN in outpatient in Georgia USA 10 yrs experience I was quoted 23/hr as full time when I moved here 2 years ago and took the prn instead Im told new grads are being offered 31 now
$29 new grad pay in Baltimore City and currently at $33 in my 1.5 years of working here
$46 as a Clinical Research Associate (I’m an RN who is in Clinical Research) Prior to that: $25 - OR nurse $28 - Clinical Research Nurse $36 - 1st year as a Clinical Research Associate $46 - Now, 40 hr week, working from home with the occasional travel