10 years ago (2004):
Opened my dusty desk drawer (still have my Walgreens Gold RxM ID pin!)
CA (LA) - The offers that I got were $36-$38 for inpatient and $43-47 for chain. Federal was $29 as I made more than that as a grad intern in AZ. I remember North of the Bay (Yreka, Redding, those areas) pay was at parity for both. The weird one was if you took the UCSF clinic job in Colma or Daly, they paid chain rates as they could never get anyone to staff those areas. Hospital was routinely getting paid less but was getting closer to parity. A decade before that, the difference between retail and chain was $8-12 depending on the zone.
AZ - Retail - $39. Hospital - $31 as the scale rate for Samaritan and Catholic Healthcare West (there was a labor agreement in place). No differential for residency, no requirement for residency to enter a clinical position. Only the majors (Good Samaritan, Flagstaff, Yuma, UMC, Scottsdale, Maricopa, and that awful county one in Tucson had a 1st year and only UMC had a second year).
Lowest bonus offer:
Catholic Healthcare West - $5000
Highest bonus offer:
Eckerd's which CVS matched - $25,000, $35,000, $40,000 over three years = $100,000
18 job offers for 20 interviews. I didn't get the Walmart one because I intentionally screwed it up to mess with their supervisor who was a complete jerk to us when we were interns. The other one was an independent that the person I 'lost' to was easily the better hire (and she still works for him faithfully).
