The new federal wage figures landed this month, and they contain a milestone and a warning, in that order. The milestone: the average registered nurse now earns $101,420 a year. Nursing has crossed six figures nationally for the first time. That is worth marking, because for most of the last decade...
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Here is a question worth sitting with. If two hospitals in your area quietly agreed not to recruit each other's nurses, how would you ever find out? You would not, mostly. You would just notice that the offers were never quite as good as you expected, that the recruiter from across town never called...
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Three years ago we wrote a post asking whether travel nurses should be worried about contracts being cancelled and rates coming down. The honest answer now is that the rates did come down, a lot, and then they stopped. The market has settled. So this is a good moment to lay out what travel nursing a...
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The new nurse wage numbers are out, and there is one line worth reading twice. The typical registered nurse got a bigger raise last year than the average nurse did. That sounds like nonsense until you look at the two figures side by side. The average RN wage rose 4.2%, to $98,430. The median, meanin...
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We’re going to be real with you: we know a lot about nurse salaries in different states, but we weren’t prepared for how extreme the differences have become! Everything below is built on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics wage figures for 2023. Once a year, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics relea...
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Imagine the shock: you’re half way down your drive from Florida to Wyoming for a travel nursing job, and you hear your contract has been canceled. No warning, no caveats: you simply thought you had a job, and then you didn’t, and now you have nothing to return to. Read also: This Is Where Nurse Wage...
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“They’re hiring new nurses for big $$, but their experienced nurses who run the units, save their asses in staffing gaps, and keep patients alive are leaving.” It’s a blunt way to put it, but Twitter user SarahToninFNP is not wrong. https://twitter.com/MomRobe/status/1406934009544941571 Nurse employ...
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The job of a nurse doesn’t follow the schedule of other professionals. People don’t stop getting sick just because it’s summer — if anything the opposite, with Covid-19 numbers rising again. No long summer break for us! That sucks — but we can still use this season to stop and look at where we are …...
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Doing taxes isn’t always fun but with a little planning and preparation, you may be pleasantly surprised by the results. As the April 15th tax filing deadline approaches, many of you will have started preparing your tax returns, or compiling records for your tax preparer. But if you are a travel nur...
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The gender pay gap: the more studies confirm its existence, the more hotly it is debated. Research has demonstrated over and again that, overall, men with identical qualifications consistently earn more than women to perform the same job. President John F. Kennedy already signed a law, the Equal Pay...
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Nurses, 2018 is almost upon us. Here are some steps you can take to improve your salary in 2018! Update your resume and NurseRecruiter profile It is a great time to update your resume with any additions or changes from 2017. Another year has passed so make sure your resume reflects that you have mo...
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When looking for the top paying locations for nurses, you need to take into consideration not only salaries, but also benefits. Furthermore, you must consider the cost of living. Because a dollar in Memphis will not buy the same goods and services as a dollar in Houston or a dollar in Bangor or a do...
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