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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is the pay for nurses these days??  [/quote]

Neighbor works at Inova faurfax and she nurses start at $80K plus potentially more with shift differentials and overtime.  Seems good to me for starting pay.[/quote]

yes but there is very little increase over time.  It's not like other fields where you can start out at $80K (first job) and expect to make $130K in 5 years and $180K in 20 years (or whatever).

If you don't get a master's degree and become an NP you'll be getting hired for $95K 20 years later as an RN.  Master's degrees in nursing are very expensive these days--generally $150K.  It's a significant investment for a small salary bump:  from $95K as an RN to maybe $120K as an NP. 
Master's degrees in nursing were not always so expensive.  Even 10 years ago you could go to Hopkins for $50K; now it's almost triple that which frankly is maddening because the end salaries don't justify the cost.

I know there was tons of press coverage about Covid travel nursing salaries but those were TRAVEL contracts--i.e. you sign a 3 month contract and then move to a different city and live in temporary housing.  This was great for young nurses but pretty irrelevant for anyone with children.  I do have a good friend whose husband did this for a year and just lived in 4 different states for a year.  They were able to save a decent amount of money but he didn't see his kids for more than a week total that year.  Kind of a high price to pay for a $250K salary.  [/quote]

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