$180K for nurse?

[Anonymous]

I just read an article where a nurse says she makes $180K. Is this true? What specialties in nursing would pay so much? How much experience is required?

[Anonymous]

Nurse anesthetist.

[Anonymous]

Or possibly a Nurse Executive at a hospital. CNEs, in particular, can earn quite a bit.

[Anonymous]

My friend makes about 115K a year as a regular ED nurse with a decade of experience and several certifications. He picks up a ton of OT billed at either time and a half or double. I could totally see someone higher up as an exec (not to mention the real specialty type nurses) pulling in that much with OT. As a new grad, I made about 75K just from picking up OT

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nurse anesthetist.

That is much more additional education after the BSN.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nurse anesthetist.

My brother does this, and he makes about $200k and works 3 out of 4 weeks a month.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nurse anesthetist.

My brother does this, and he makes about $200k and works 3 out of 4 weeks a month.

Yeah agree. Either a nurse in California who is doing a LOT of overtime (CA pays the best pretty out of any other state in the US) or they're a nurse executive or a CRNA (nurse anesthetist). CRNA requires a lot more schooling and ICU experience. I'm a new grad nurse and will make about 45-50k this year without any overtime

[Anonymous]

Op - are you from the other thread on GP about being jobless, divircing, and 2 small kids?
If so, don't go into nursing given your circumstances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op - are you from the other thread on GP about being jobless, divircing, and 2 small kids?
If so, don't go into nursing given your circumstances.

I am OP of that thread, not of this thread.

[Anonymous]

This is OP. The nurse I am quoting is in CA. The article was about lack of affordable housing in CA. She makes $180K and cannot afford to buy! She has an UMC income and is cut out of the American Dream! We are sadly becoming a country only for the very rich!

[Anonymous]

I know a PA who earned $200k at Hopkins and was recently wooed away to another hospital in a big urban area where she's making $230. She's only in her early 30s. And she only works 3 or 4 days a week (mostly assisting with surgery).

I know a nurse who makes nearly as much. She's a head nurse (like a manager I suppose) at a hospital.

[Anonymous]

Nurses make more in California than anywhere else in the country and always have because of especially strong unions.

Also, nurses who quote really high salaries are working overtime shifts (usually during nights and weekends) for double time or time-and-a-half.
I'm a nurse and have known a number of nurses through the years who worked 50, 60, 70 hours a week by tacking on extra shifts. Maybe because they were the breadwinner for their family, or they were young
and single and had a lot or free time or they were saving for some goal or another. It's hard and physically demanding work so many people don't last long working more than 36-40 hours a week. The burn-out is very high.
Every hour you're working you're running around. There's no down time at a desk like there is at many jobs.
When i was in my late 20's I did this one year and grossed something like $130k as an RN. I worked all.the.time. I saved the money and paid for my wedding this way.
In contrast, a new graduate a Georgetown or Hopkins or INOVA will make $45-50K a year and stay pretty close to that rate for a number of years. 10 years later (if you're not working overtime) you'll be at $70K.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nurses make more in California than anywhere else in the country and always have because of especially strong unions.

Also, nurses who quote really high salaries are working overtime shifts (usually during nights and weekends) for double time or time-and-a-half.
I'm a nurse and have known a number of nurses through the years who worked 50, 60, 70 hours a week by tacking on extra shifts. Maybe because they were the breadwinner for their family, or they were young
and single and had a lot or free time or they were saving for some goal or another. It's hard and physically demanding work so many people don't last long working more than 36-40 hours a week. The burn-out is very high.
Every hour you're working you're running around. There's no down time at a desk like there is at many jobs.
When i was in my late 20's I did this one year and grossed something like $130k as an RN. I worked all.the.time. I saved the money and paid for my wedding this way.
In contrast, a new graduate a Georgetown or Hopkins or INOVA will make $45-50K a year and stay pretty close to that rate for a number of years. 10 years later (if you're not working overtime) you'll be at $70K.

This.

[Anonymous]

I make about $260K a year as a RN with just a BSN degree, but it's because I work a LOT of overtime, holidays, nights, weekends, etc. that shift differential and holiday pay adds up! The hours are undesirable for most people, but for me it works great. I have young kids and I'm home when they're awake and since I work opposite shifts as my husband, daycare costs have been pretty minimal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nurse anesthetist.

My brother does this, and he makes about $200k and works 3 out of 4 weeks a month.

Yeah agree. Either a nurse in California who is doing a LOT of overtime (CA pays the best pretty out of any other state in the US) or they're a nurse executive or a CRNA (nurse anesthetist). CRNA requires a lot more schooling and ICU experience. I'm a new grad nurse and will make about 45-50k this year without any overtime

My Aunt in CA is a Nurse anesthesiologist and makes approx 250k. She has been working for Kaiser for 25+ years. Though she dorsnt work much OT. She normally works 3 12s or 4 10s.