NYC nurse strike

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NYC nurses striking claiming it is due to workload and staffing levels. Meanwhile, they're already making $165k and want to increase it up to $275k at some NY hospitals. GMAFB. That is grotesque overpay for a 4 year degree job. We are supposed to now compensate nurses more than many family docs? Talk about wage inflation spiral. If nurses make $275k I guess we have to pay teachers $200k and docs $1M now.

USA wages and cost of labor are out of control.

Woah. You think whether ans how many letters follow your name should dictate salary? GMAFB. I managed plenty of those who were not worth the tuition they paid. They may have been book smart but couldn’t work in the real world. There is a lot of jobs that say you need a degree(s) that really don’t.

You should tell your plumber how you feel about how much they make. LOLOL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYC nurses striking claiming it is due to workload and staffing levels. Meanwhile, they're already making $165k and want to increase it up to $275k at some NY hospitals. GMAFB. That is grotesque overpay for a 4 year degree job. We are supposed to now compensate nurses more than many family docs? Talk about wage inflation spiral. If nurses make $275k I guess we have to pay teachers $200k and docs $1M now.

USA wages and cost of labor are out of control.

Woah. You think whether ans how many letters follow your name should dictate salary? GMAFB. I managed plenty of those who were not worth the tuition they paid. They may have been book smart but couldn’t work in the real world. There is a lot of jobs that say you need a degree(s) that really don’t.

You should tell your plumber how you feel about how much they make. LOLOL.

Oh yes, nurses who sit on the phone half their shift buying shit on Amazon and scrolling TikTok should be getting paid $275k. Lololololool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYC nurses striking claiming it is due to workload and staffing levels. Meanwhile, they're already making $165k and want to increase it up to $275k at some NY hospitals. GMAFB. That is grotesque overpay for a 4 year degree job. We are supposed to now compensate nurses more than many family docs? Talk about wage inflation spiral. If nurses make $275k I guess we have to pay teachers $200k and docs $1M now.

USA wages and cost of labor are out of control.

What are your sources for these salaries and what types of roles?

-RN

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/nyregion/nurses-strike-hospitals-nyc.html

AVERAGE is already $165k. Union is making demands that would push it to $275k.

Ridiculous over compensation. Fire all union nursing and replace.

CRNAs there are making $205/hr per diem or 300-350k salary. That’s more than some physicians make. That’s an amazing value for a masters degree

So go get your nursing degree and get it on it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYC nurses striking claiming it is due to workload and staffing levels. Meanwhile, they're already making $165k and want to increase it up to $275k at some NY hospitals. GMAFB. That is grotesque overpay for a 4 year degree job. We are supposed to now compensate nurses more than many family docs? Talk about wage inflation spiral. If nurses make $275k I guess we have to pay teachers $200k and docs $1M now.

USA wages and cost of labor are out of control.

Woah. You think whether ans how many letters follow your name should dictate salary? GMAFB. I managed plenty of those who were not worth the tuition they paid. They may have been book smart but couldn’t work in the real world. There is a lot of jobs that say you need a degree(s) that really don’t.

You should tell your plumber how you feel about how much they make. LOLOL.

Oh yes, nurses who sit on the phone half their shift buying shit on Amazon and scrolling TikTok should be getting paid $275k. Lololololool.

Not sure if this was meant as a joke, but you aren’t wrong.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYC nurses striking claiming it is due to workload and staffing levels. Meanwhile, they're already making $165k and want to increase it up to $275k at some NY hospitals. GMAFB. That is grotesque overpay for a 4 year degree job. We are supposed to now compensate nurses more than many family docs? Talk about wage inflation spiral. If nurses make $275k I guess we have to pay teachers $200k and docs $1M now.

USA wages and cost of labor are out of control.

What are your sources for these salaries and what types of roles?

-RN

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/nyregion/nurses-strike-hospitals-nyc.html

AVERAGE is already $165k. Union is making demands that would push it to $275k.

Ridiculous over compensation. Fire all union nursing and replace.

CRNAs there are making $205/hr per diem or 300-350k salary. That’s more than some physicians make. That’s an amazing value for a masters degree

So go get your nursing degree and get it on it!

Only those who are ambitious and more highly educated and trained make those higher salaries. The strikers want higher salaries for lower levels of credentialing, basing their argument on the profitability of their employers, not on the actual market value they bring to their roles. If they want to share in their employer's profits, they need to become stockholders, not extortionists. They also surely would not be demanding their wages be reduced in years when their employers profits decline, demonstrating further that this has nothing to do with the value of their labor, which would be the same at an unprofitable hospital as it is where they happen to be fortunate enought to be employed.

[Anonymous]

We all know that nurses don't make anywhere close to what doctor's make, don;t be ridiculous. If you are surprised at whata nurse makes in NYC, I am sure you'd faint to see a doctor's salary. I'd rather watch nurses and teachers make more money than the Bill Ackmans of the world. Why do you all want the billionaires to get richer and richer while the middle class becomes poor?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYC nurses striking claiming it is due to workload and staffing levels. Meanwhile, they're already making $165k and want to increase it up to $275k at some NY hospitals. GMAFB. That is grotesque overpay for a 4 year degree job. We are supposed to now compensate nurses more than many family docs? Talk about wage inflation spiral. If nurses make $275k I guess we have to pay teachers $200k and docs $1M now.

USA wages and cost of labor are out of control.

Woah. You think whether ans how many letters follow your name should dictate salary? GMAFB. I managed plenty of those who were not worth the tuition they paid. They may have been book smart but couldn’t work in the real world. There is a lot of jobs that say you need a degree(s) that really don’t.

You should tell your plumber how you feel about how much they make. LOLOL.

Oh yes, nurses who sit on the phone half their shift buying shit on Amazon and scrolling TikTok should be getting paid $275k. Lololololool.

Having worked as a med surg nurse who barely ever had time to pee, perhaps you are jealous, uh sure

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We all know that nurses don't make anywhere close to what doctor's make, don;t be ridiculous. If you are surprised at whata nurse makes in NYC, I am sure you'd faint to see a doctor's salary. I'd rather watch nurses and teachers make more money than the Bill Ackmans of the world. Why do you all want the billionaires to get richer and richer while the middle class becomes poor?

Actually, docs In NYC dont make that much because they have tons of docs who'd want to move there and work. The big bucks for medicine are working in more remote areas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We all know that nurses don't make anywhere close to what doctor's make, don;t be ridiculous. If you are surprised at whata nurse makes in NYC, I am sure you'd faint to see a doctor's salary. I'd rather watch nurses and teachers make more money than the Bill Ackmans of the world. Why do you all want the billionaires to get richer and richer while the middle class becomes poor?

Actually, docs In NYC dont make that much because they have tons of docs who'd want to move there and work. The big bucks for medicine are working in more remote areas.

Right. YOU, would be surprised at how little doctors make in NYC. Sure, there are some high paid plastics or ultra specialty ones getting paid a lot. But the average general surgeon or internal medicine doctor would make probably double what they would make in NYC in the Midwest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYC nurses striking claiming it is due to workload and staffing levels. Meanwhile, they're already making $165k and want to increase it up to $275k at some NY hospitals. GMAFB. That is grotesque overpay for a 4 year degree job. We are supposed to now compensate nurses more than many family docs? Talk about wage inflation spiral. If nurses make $275k I guess we have to pay teachers $200k and docs $1M now.

USA wages and cost of labor are out of control.

Very few nurses make at the top of the pay scales with only a four year degree. There are also issues of supply and demand.

Supply & demand is always the reason for pricing, Econ 101.

Reason elites push for more and more
Immigration

[Anonymous]

I’m sorry but they are worth every penny.

Cut costs somewhere to make this happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NYC nurses striking claiming it is due to workload and staffing levels. Meanwhile, they're already making $165k and want to increase it up to $275k at some NY hospitals. GMAFB. That is grotesque overpay for a 4 year degree job. We are supposed to now compensate nurses more than many family docs? Talk about wage inflation spiral. If nurses make $275k I guess we have to pay teachers $200k and docs $1M now.

USA wages and cost of labor are out of control.

According to Zip recruiter, the average salary for a NYC nurse was $96k. Glassdoor and Indeed's average for the city is $109k. I know a couple of doctors pulling in well-over 1 million a year. One is a high-risk OB-GYN, two are cardiologist, and another one is a neurologist. I'm pretty sure the plastic surgeon that injects my face is earning a minimum of 7-figures. I think that's probably the norm for those professions. OADN, my OB-GYN friend who handles high risk pregnancies also has a very high premium for her med mal insurance. All but the OB-GYN are men.

PP, I don't think doctors was a good analogy. Teachers, maybe, but like nurses, teachers are woefully underpaid in every state. Nurses and teachers' salaries are comparable, and both dominated by women workers.

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Rn-Salary-in-New-York-City,NY
https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/new-york-city-ny-registered-nurse-salary-SRCH_IL.0,16_IM615_KO17,33.htm
https://www.indeed.com/career/registered-nurse/salaries/New-York--NY
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/teacher-pay-by-state
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/nurse-salary-by-state

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYC nurses striking claiming it is due to workload and staffing levels. Meanwhile, they're already making $165k and want to increase it up to $275k at some NY hospitals. GMAFB. That is grotesque overpay for a 4 year degree job. We are supposed to now compensate nurses more than many family docs? Talk about wage inflation spiral. If nurses make $275k I guess we have to pay teachers $200k and docs $1M now.

USA wages and cost of labor are out of control.

What are your sources for these salaries and what types of roles?

-RN

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/nyregion/nurses-strike-hospitals-nyc.html

AVERAGE is already $165k. Union is making demands that would push it to $275k.

Ridiculous over compensation. Fire all union nursing and replace.

There's a nursing shortage, so who are you replacing them with?

[Anonymous]

Amazingly, the person most responsible for someone’s life or death and care is not the doctor or nurse but the cna and they get minimum wage

[Anonymous]

Send in the cheap h1bs from India.

Come on DCUM elites. You all love h1bs for cheap labor. There is an obvious solution. Expand h1bs like democrats want to do