LPN's- What do you get paid!?

I was considering being an LPN and was wondering how much you guys get paid and how much and ageny pays for LPN's.

In Texas about 15.00 to 17.00, hr, agency pays 21 to 25

Waaay back, one agency I worked for had 2 levels: During the week, we got paid $21 for 7-3, $21.50 for 3-11, and $22 for 11-7; Weekend pay was increased a bit more. Of course, this was back in the late '80's/early '90's. :)

'Cat'

Brand new LPN working in a nursing home and I get $19/hr day shift or $20/hr PMs or nights.

Be advised; Salary will always be based on the region & company, as well as specific type of job.

Not enough for the workload, but too much to justify quiting.

In all seriousness kids, you need to take in to concideration the cost of living for the area you will be working in. It has been my experience that if you budget and spend wisely you can live a comfortable middle class life on a LPN wage. If your spouce works also it can be even better. my wife was a stay at home mom till our kids all started school, now she is starting to talk about going back to school. not that we need the money but it sure won't hurt the budget any for her to work.

So, to make a long story short why not ask Nurses in your geographic area what they make.

Days $12.25 per hour/ Nights 14.75 per hour.... the pay sux in Texarkana TExas!!!!

16.05 is base rate pay... nights add 7% (ends up being 17 ish) and night weekends add 21% which ends up being 19 and some change. This is at a hospital in MD

in South Alabama where I live: --base pay $12.75 -- % more for yrs already been a LPN-- as well as shift differentials. in 2006 i went to north AL and got a job at a hospital with base $17.50 --plus shift diff, and $1.00 extra for any certifications that you have completed and are active.. so if coming to AL --the pay in south AL is not good--try to stay located in north AL cities unless you can get on via an agency -they do pay more in any state you go--over being hired by the hospital or nursing home--we have 1 new agency here in Dothan , that contract nurses for positions here and in Florida, and they pay $18-$20/hr week day shift and $22/hr weekend shifts..and and some jobs are daily shift cash pay..
another new agency close to here in southern GA that have positions near hear about 45 min drive and they pay contract nurses the same as the agency here does.

but as someone else have replied--it all depends on the region you are in--but the pay in the south is always lower..

I live in central MO. It really varies here from town to town. Most hosptials are around $11.50!! Nursing homes anywhere from $11 to $18!! + differential, which most of them are nice! I work for Healthsouth, I get $14.22 currently. I hear the starting there is $13.

However, RN's in hospitals start at $17....so I don't feel like I am doing too bad.

I've been a LPN for four years and at the company I currently work at they pay new LPNs $22 an hour and experienced nurses $24an hour. So go for it. The money is gooood, especially with time and a half after 8 hours.

in southwest va it depends on the field and if your working full time or part time. for example working in the doctors office you get paid less. 9.75-11.00 depending on the doctor. they believe that you have the best hours and days off (holidays off) plus that job is so in demand that most have to wait till some one quits, retires or dies. lol i had one doctor offer me 915 and hour. i told him that i made 8.50 hour at walmart. i don't think so. most hospitals around here pay 10.50-13.00. nursing homes offer more because their turn over is not that great so they offer more to keep you. 12.00-17.50. more if your part time. hope that helps

Think of it this way, LivingDead....Walmart and nursing is like apples and oranges.

True, you deal with 'cranky people' either way, but in a doctor's office, there's a good reason for it. :D

Where i live(n.california) lvns make 32 plus benefits in ltc/snf. my rent is 825 a month so it is pretty good pay for a year of votech school. you can get alot of overtime if you are motivated.

I'm relocating to Georgia, and have heard a lot of negative feed back concering how LPN's are treated in Georgia and the wages. I've been an LPN for 20 years and have a vast number of experience can someone share their experience with me., as well as places to live and look for a job

I'm also looking for jobs hopefully my georgia license will be here by the second or third week of August.

You can find up to date pay rates for LPN/LVNs and RNs here for most regions in the United States:

Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) (United States), Today's Pay Rates, Payscale.com:
http://www.payscale.com/salary-surve...32928/fid-6886
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Registered Nurse (RN) (United States), Today's Pay Rates, Payscale.com:
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/...N)/Hourly_Rate
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Hope that is helpful.

Andrew Lopez, RN
http://www.nursefriendly.com

I feel so grateful for all of you who have posted your wages. It has been so helpful. I am in Oklahoma, about to apply to LPN school. I was enrolled in pre-nursing at Oklahoma State University-OKC in an Anatomy course but dropped out because there were some problems. My teacher was teaching the course, and the Director of the division was creating the tests for the courses. One didn't seem to reflect the other. I wasn't doing well, and had to dropped. I didn't want a bad grade to drag my good gpa down.

I already have a Master's degree in the social sciences from the University of Oklahoma but really couldn't do much with it. It's like an English degree. What can you do with it?? Not much. So I decided to go back to college. I started out by going back to Rose State College where I first got my AA degree. I took Anatomy and Physiology, and made a "B", and then took Microbiology and made a "C." That was a damn hard course. I had a overall high gpa but not high enough to qualify for the school's RN program, so I had to transfer to another school.

So that's when I transferred to OSU-OKC. But they made me take the same courses over again, because nothing I had previously taken at Rose transferred over. But I was doing so poorly in their Anatomy class I had to drop it. I got really discouraged. And decided to go to LPN school instead rather than to take the courses over again. Because they were hard enough the first time around.

After LPN school I will be going home to Calif. I'm from the Bay area. But then again I may settle in AZ. Not sure. I do need a could wage though. I've 56 years old now. I will have an RV I'm living in. I've giving up the house. I'm originally from Antioch. And I have family all over southern CA. I don't want to work 40 hours a week anymore. I'm tired of the rat race. I have many years of home health care experience. I want to work about 30 hours now.

Can I survive on that? I won't have any bills....except for food for me and my dogs, and gas for the RV, health insurance, rv insurance. The RV will be paid for.

Thank you,

DebbieMarie

My wife works for a doctors office and started there right out of LPN school. She makes $12.50 an hour. If you can get on here at the hospital as an LPN you start out at $14.00 but most of the hospitals around here are not taking LPN's they want RNs. Nursing homes start out at $17.50 for day shift, and my wife turned down an agency postion of $25.00 an hour, because she didn't want to do agency work and work in a nursing home.

Not working so my pay is zilch. In this area, the wages have gone from $18 to $20 an hour to $15 to $17 an hour to coincide with the employers necessity to adjust to the economy. They have also decreased their need for employees.

I work in northeast Ohio I get 16.40 at a county nursing home ,and 18.00 for agency I've gotten 25/hr for some assignments though

I live in Orlando FL. As a new grad I have been offered 2 positions so far. The first 19.50/hr the 2nd 20.75/hr

LPNs here in AZ get paid from $12 and hour to $27. I've worked for some registries that paid $27/hr. County, clinics, and nursing homes pay from $12/hr to $17/hr (not worth it if your the med nurse). Here in AZ you can have up to 42 patients on a med pass and it was the only time I ever experienced chest pain in my life. You must also answer phones, take admissions, do treatments, help with feeding, chart and so on. Many facilities will not pay you if you run overtime on your shift or miss your lunch. I work as a private nurse and make $23/hr. I have one special needs child in my care. I don't get breaks and have to fight for time off. Some of the Families feel like they own the nurse. Families asked if my mother could reschedule her wedding because it didn't fit into their dayplanner schedules, or could I change my family vacation or reschedule a surgery, illness or death because it was inconvenient for them. Now the good points about what I do. You get to follow the patients' progression. You are a part of the goals. You feel like a nurse not a pill pusher or like you are working on a human automated assembly line of treatments and bandages. It's rewarding to see a patient the doctors said would never walk run and who could never acheive academically read write and do arithmatic....to see miracles happen.

Hey thanks for sharing. But the healthcare industry is in boom. They are getting a lot of funds. Nursing has a great career and a lot of money.

$18 with crappy EXTREMELY expensive health benefits... 1:30 LTC 2-3 CNA's if noone calls off 32 hours a week fulltime....