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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WOAH. 
You can't compare the 2 at all.

1) Nursing salaries are much higher in CA than anyplace else in the US because nurses are unionized there. An RN can easily make $200K doing hospital nursing. In DC it's more like $90K, in middle American it can be $60K.  There are a LOT of nurses in California and the salaries are so inflated that they increase the average throughout the US. That's why the university with the highest post-grad salary in the US is a Cal-State one.

2)The average nursing salaries also include advanced practice nurses like NPs, midwives, and nurse anesthetists. These jobs all require master's or generally doctoral level degrees which cost an additional $150-250K in 2025. It used to be much cheaper to get a graduate degree in nursing (to become an NP, etc) but now the schools have increased their tuition to almost the level of medical schools.

Plus the skill set, personality, aptitude of nurses vs engineers is entirely different. I'm an RN, NP married to an engineer.

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My daughter just started in Chicago. Makes 38/hr plus 4 at night (plus 2 on weekends). She'd aiming to make 100k this year with some overtime. Not bad for a 22 yr old with no advanced degree and not in CA. [/quote]

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