A Talk About Figures: How Much A Nurse Earns?
Sep 15th, 2008 by mariceltpadua
Two thousand five hundred ninety-eight respondents yielded an assorted result. This transpired after a reader profile study was conducted by the Nursing Spectrum/Nurse Week last year, 2007. The outcomes of the research were due to the diversity of nurse specialty, work setting, and nursing experience. The main objective of the said study was to find out how much a nurse earns both in a yearly and hourly basis.
As said earlier, there were 2, 598 respondents who answered the survey questionnaires disseminated by the Harvey Research Inc. Of the total sample, 1,910 nurses answered questions about their annual salaries while 1, 720 provided figures for the hourly wages based on a regular shifting schedule. The reader profile study yielded the following results that are classified according to Region or Location.
Southeast
Average Annual Salary: $57,261
Average Hourly Wage: $29.60
Florida
Average Annual Salary: $59,204
Average Hourly Wage: $30.00
IL/Chicago
Average Annual Salary: $58,810
Average Hourly Wage: $32.00
Midwest
Average Annual Salary: $53,759
Average Hourly Wage: $29.10
New England
Average Annual Salary: $61,707
Average Hourly Wage: $36.10
NY/NJ
Average Annual Salary: $73,630
Average Hourly Wage: $37.30
Philadelphia
Average Annual Salary: $61,719
Average Hourly Wage: $33.40
DC/MD/VA
Average Annual Salary: $63,920
Average Hourly Wage: $34.50
South Central
Average Annual Salary: $59,288
Average Hourly Wage: $28.80
Northwest
Average Annual Salary: $59,562
Average Hourly Wage: $32.90
California
Average Annual Salary: $74,950
Average Hourly Wage: $41.60
Heartland
Average Annual Salary: $52,771
Average Hourly Wage: $28.80
Southwest
Average Annual Salary: $59,562
Average Hourly Wage: $32.90
Basing on the numbers above, do you earn as much as the respondents earn?More than 14% of registered nurse has an annual income between $60,000 and $69,000. Aside from the years of nursing experience, job description and nurse specialty, nurse’s salaries are also commensurate with their level of education. Thus, the higher degree of nursing you earned, the higher is your income. Also, geographic areas matters in determining the salary of a registered nurse. Most of the survey respondents across the United States are graduates of Bachelor of Science in Nursing. One third ( 33.2 %) of them has 20 to 30 years of experience in the nursing profession. Almost half of them, 49.7 % to be exact are working full time in hospitals while 13.9 % has a primary specialty in medical/surgical nursing.Based on the 75% people who responded the questionnaire on salary, $62, 618 is the average salary of an RN. Among those nurses who belong to this percentage are those RN who are providing direct patient care, nurse managers, nurse educators or staff developers, APNs/CNSs and nurse administrators.
How about you? Are you earning near those figures? Benchmark your nurse salary now.