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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

But yes, but unless she retrains as an NP (and pays $150-250K in tuition) her salary will not increase much with time. It's not like she's going to be making $150K/year in a decade.  There is no value to the hospital to do that and they won't. Hospitals don't give a sh$%T if you have 2 years of experience or 20 years. They pretty much pay the same because they can always find a nurse RN who will work for the lower wages.

You have to change job titles and unless you retrain as an NP or slowly make the creep up the management path (like $100K as an an assistant manager and then all the way up to director of nursing--being the top nurse at a hospital out of thousands for $400K) there is very little way to make more. And as soon as you move away from the bedside (to outpatient work, case management, public health, insurance company work, etc etc) your salary goes down and people want to pay you $80K because there are many nurses who will work for less because they want to get out of the hospital setting.

Those of us who are nurses bring up these issues all the time on these threads and DCUM posters who aren't nurses continue to insist that it's some hidden, fabulous pathway to high salaries.  But it's not. It's a calling, it's an interesting career but it's not a very lucrative one. [/quote]

Did these same jobs pay this same salary 10 years ago?  No. The market is tight and wages increase.

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Huh? Yes they did. [/quote]

no, they didn't.
they are not starting nurses at the same salary as they were years ago.[/quote]

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