RN Salaries

[NYCGurl]

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Hi all!

I just recently graduated with my BSN and saw a salary chart for RNs in 2002 that I could not believe! I can't seem to find the friggin article now for the average yearly salary it listed but I believe it was around $40,000-50,000 and $18/hour in hospital. 😕

Now from what I've heard from fellow classmates, the hospitals around (NYC area) have been offering ~60,000 to start for new grads.
I'm curious what others have seen as starting salaries for new grads elsewhere. And what's with the big discrepancy between this and the average!

Also, anyone else studying for the NCLEX-RN? Any tips? 😛

 

[MarbleHead]

A big-name hospital in my city starts new RNs at $49,500, and they are known for not having the highest salaries in town.

Now, if they get rid of nurses' overtime benefits as the Bush admin is trying to do, I wonder how that figure will change.

 

[AxisNP]

I would say starting for a new grad at $18/hr would be pretty good. I think here it is $14/hr but I am not certain.

I think it varies a lot from state to state. As well as the average.

I topped out as an RN at $70,000. I never really went beyond that. And this was at doing basic staff nursing. Not management. So I really am not sure what new grads make anymore. I have heard many different things in my state.

Now I have heard traveling nurses make very good money and have a lot of nice perks. So again it depends. Then if you go away from staff/hospital nursing it gets higher.

The same thing goes for NP's. It's like when I heard the national average for NP's was something like $50,000. I was shocked because I was making more than that as a staff RN. But then I found out this included NP's who are listed as making $8,000/yr as salary. But that doesn't include that the community pays for their house their car, etc.

AxisNP