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I was talking with some of the nursing staff at my ED and a lot of them are currently making between 140-160$ / hr (regular RN, not NP or PA). I was subsequently discussing what kind of job offers new EM grads are getting at my program in south Florida and a rate of around $200 / hr seems to be pretty common. Of course we all predicted that rates for EM docs will decrease, but the fact that the hourly rate is spitting distance away from that of a nurse seems infuriating considering the vast difference in the cost and time of training. I am not even going to discuss the fact that a lot of the travel nurses walked away with more than 35k / mo during the pandemic. Hospitals do not value MDs anymore. If they want to slap an RN on my badge and pay me 35k / mo to place IVs and administer meds under someone else's license I'd much rather do that.