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Elizabeth Wykpisz, MBA, MS, RN, CNAA, C, CHE, senior vice president and chief nursing officer, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, described the impact of low vacancy rates. "This reduction has resulted in a stabilization of nursing salaries," she said. "Hospitals have either not increased salaries or offered cost of living adjustments, consistent with or slightly lower."
Indeed, according to the ADVANCE for Nurses national salary survey results, nearly half of respondents, 48 percent, did not experience a change in salary.
Nurses Salary Survey: Results In!
Seeded on Sat Mar 27, 2010 11:17 AM EDT
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I went to the page on national salaries and read the comments. There were four comments and they felt the listed salaries were higher than what their facilities' nurses received. How about the other nurses? (My state wasn't listed and I don't work in acute care any more.)
#1 - Sat Mar 27, 2010 11:20 AM EDTI made nowhere near the $28.94/hr Indiana average the article gives. I even worked in CCU and made $21/hr. Definitely seems a little off.
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#2 - Tue Apr 27, 2010 7:34 PM EDTStephanie, If one lives in / works in Massachusetts as an R.N. you could raise that salary to approximately 10 more p/hr. Plus your differentials.. My wife is a nurse.. and she makes pretty good moola... non-union.. so she does not have to pay out any extra for union dues..which adds up ...
Also - it is all relative to each state and the cost of living in each state.. Massachusetts cost more to live.. certainly as I saw on the list.. Iowa pay would kill us in Massachusetts.
Location, location, location... ;)
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The $28.94 is the average for IN, not the US. Even living in Indy, I don't see how the pay scale can be that much of a gap. I live near Ft. Wayne. The cost of living between the two cities is similar. According to "Cost of Living Wizard" I would only end up making approximately, an extra $2000/year.
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$80,000 sounds about right for Massachusetts.. I wonder if they have included the 2-3 dollar an hour extra for the over night shift in that? My wife has been a nurse since the early 70's..
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Experience also counts in what you earn. The longer you are a nurse, the more you should be earning. I don't think the survey differentiated between years of experience. And, where you live is certainly important. When I moved to the middle of the country from California, I basically took a 50% pay cut! (And the cost of living is not half of California's.) Pay has gotten better, but with the bad staffing here along with the low pay, it's not worth it for my sanity. (Hmm, I wonder why we have such a nursing shortage.)
With a MSN, though, you should be earning more. And, you can go into teaching and administration, but you will spend less time at the bedside (plus teaching pays less.)
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Poor California... and I do mean poor..
There is a nursing shortage.. not enough 'good' nurses..
I would of been a doctor.. but I would of left in my wake too many hurting worse than when they came into my office.. lol
Good nurses deserve the respect cleaning up after a doctor... having to put up with much paper work.. and dealing with some imbeciles...
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