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We’ve pulled the most up-to-date hourly and yearly salary reports for the top nurse jobs and are wondering…are they accurate for your job title, your location and your years of experience?
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I am an LPN in LTC in central Illinois. I guess my facility is average. I make around $36,000 per year including OT. We don’t. Get bonuses or anything like that. But I think were all worth more monetary compensation but the relationships I have with my residents are a compensation that can’t be measured because that is priceless.
I was recently asked my opinion on nursing shortage and some comments made on whether they pay nurses too much…………..
My reply………. Can you really pay a nurse too much for being with you or your family when they are sick or possibly dying? A life or death decision which usually comes from the “nurse” as SHE/HE are the ones at the bedside with the patient. Is it really too much to pay us for risking “our” lives every day being exposed to all of the diseases that patients have and we give our all to care for? I say absolutely NOT when we are paying millions to say……..a football player, an actor or people who only entertain our lives. Has it gotten that bad that our actual life and those who care for it aren’t worth much??????????
Non-bedside nurses may also be interested in a new salary survey of case managers and non-bedside nurses in NY, NJ and PA.
Average salary in 2009 was $83,592
You can download the complete survey results at:
http://bit.ly/2010RNSalarySurvey
In California
RN’s: make 4-5 times min wage (ranges $32-38)
Lvn’s: make 3 times min wage $15-25
Cna’s min.
South Carolina is probably the lowest paid nurses. i have been an LPN for 30 years and just make between $17 and $18 dollars an hour!
RN
Registered Nurse
You should move to California
, I am a new grads and I make $36/hour.
Can I ask which hospital you work at?
LPN
Licensed Practical Nurse
think thats bad, after 30 years, good ol wv making less than 14. hr ! and i know of one state job paying lpns less than 10/hr
I currently work cardiac telemetry in Little Rock, AR. As an RN with 5 years experience I still make only 23.01/hr which is actually less than I was making working as an agency LPN when I was in RN school. Kinda sad.
RN
Registered Nurse
I am in telemetry too but I am a new grads
RN
Registered Nurse
Im a nurse in Baltimore, MD and seem to make a little more than half way or the RN salary range. I still dont feel its enough considering all the work I do each day and standing on my feet running from room to room for 13 hrs. a day. But its more than I made as a teacher!
RN
Registered Nurse
I’m an RN here in Los Angeles, California @ a Cardiothoracic Stepdown Unit. When I was a New Grad RN 12 years ago, my starting salary was $26.75/hr. My current salary is $45.00/hr. as a CNIII.
Student
Nursing Student (you can change this when you graduate!)
I am a CNA student right now and am choosing to become certified as a way to build up my credentials before applying to nursing school next year. CNAs deserve so much more recognition and pay for what they do. For those who have been enrolled in nursing school or are already RNs, exposure to a nursing home would make you a better nurse in you haven’t seen one or worked in one before. It is tough, and the nurses are expected to maintain a smile throughout the entire shift. The difference in the dynamic of a nursing home compared to an acute care facility is striking, really.
Student
Nursing Student (you can change this when you graduate!)
I am a CNA student right now and am choosing to become certified as a way to build up my credentials before applying to nursing school next year. CNAs deserve so much more recognition and pay for what they do. For those who have been enrolled in nursing school or are already RNs (who are not CNAs), exposure to a nursing home would make you a better nurse in you haven’t seen one or worked in one before. It is tough, and the nurses are expected to maintain a smile throughout the entire shift. The difference in the dynamic of a nursing home compared to an acute care facility is striking, really.
RN
Registered Nurse
I am a new grads from Southern California, I make about 75,000/year (full time), I make more if I work over time.
I have a question how do LPNSand/or people getting a license in that field feel about how they will be removing this position just like how they did to LVNS? My professor told me about this and i was in shock since I know so many people who are getting a license in this position.
One chain of Hospitals here in the Atlanta area have already let go of all LPN’s who are not enrolling in BSN programs.
My career started in 1979. I worked in the ICU/CCU of a large hospital and made 8.95 and hour by working a specialty and the night shift.
I went back to working the MSP floor making 29.50 an hour, as you can see the raises for nurses have hardly kept pace with the cost of living.
The amount of work and responsibility we take on is unbelievable yet when you ask for a raise the powers that be raise their eyebrows and it is like asking you why should we give you one.
e are professionals taking human lives in our hands and doing the very best we can to help them get the care they need.
I have finally had enough and retired I had not planned to do so but the stress and responsibility have become to much for me.
Bless the rest of you in this profession and I wish you all the best.
A tired and frustrated nurse who has felt for a long time that this profession deserved better.
LPN salaries are not listed here. It brings up CNA salaries if you click on the LPN link..
RN
Registered Nurse
I earn about 65.000 as a high school nurse in New England I am paid on teachers salary scale ( I have my MS) and have 18 years in the district, 29 as an RN. And I follow the the school calendar. That said ( and trust me I am not complaining at all) there are no $$ bonuses- no OT, no differentiall for working evenings or weekends ( and that does happen). I am blessed and I love my job!