Nursing Salaries in Texas
Although it would be wonderful, nursing salaries are not uniform across the country. Nurses seeking jobs in different states would do well to do research in to the area of training, certification, and salaries. Making a move out of state is difficult especially if a nurse has a family to support, a mortgage, and car payments. All these areas and more must be taken into consideration when a big move is planned. Although you may be a nurse at the moment now making a decent salary, or you are a nurse who wants to relocate because you feel you can make a better salary elsewhere, do your homework, find out what the salaries are in the state in which you want to relocate. Although the lure of the job may be calling you to a different state, if you cannot handle your hours or the workload, the pay may not be all that exciting after all. In contrast, if your new working situation in that new state is the dream job you always wanted, but you cannot pay your new mortgage, these fringe benefits may not turn out to be all that desirable in the long run.
Plan your move wisely. Make sure the nursing salary is something you really feel is worthwhile before you move to the next state or you move across the country. A word of advice, do not consider simply the salary, you must look at the cost of living ratio in that state, and salaries in that state may be high because housing, groceries, clothing, gasoline, and everything you enjoy on a regular basis is high as well.
One good thing is that because there currently is a shortage in nursing, many hospitals are giving out bonuses for recruitment which can range anywhere from $2,000 to $20,000 dollars. These recruitment bonuses can include relocation allowances, housing assistance, daycare services, and more.
It takes a two-year associate degree or a four-year bachelor's degree for students wishing to become a registered nurse (RN). If we take the state of Texas as our sample state in this article, the average salary for a registered nurse is $25.95 an hour. However, other factors such as experience and the amount of years in service will also affect individual salaries as well. Generally speaking, larger cities like Dallas will be offering higher salaries than smaller cities.
Even within the designation of RN there are the various specializations that will also affect salary. For example, an ER registered nurse and an OR registered nurse will make different salaries.
A registered nurse in Houston, Baytown, Sugar Land, and the Texas Metropolitan area can make close to $30.00 an hour. Furthermore nursing will have favorite cities where they prefer to practice their profession. Houston is a very popular city chosen by many registered nurses. RN telemetry nurses will earn from $32.00 – $37.00 an hour in Austin, Texas.
The average salary for an RN emergency room ER nurse in Texas is $85,000 dollars a year. Whereas a travel nurse with the RN designation would make on average $66,000 per year. A home health RN in Texas currently makes as much as an ER registered nurse.
The lowest-paying job in Texas at this present time is that of a flu immunization nurse who would make approximately $38,000 per year. The average salaries of RNs jump from $38,000 to $54,000 for RN Inpt in Texas, and $57,000 per year for both a RN ICU critical care nurse and a RN unit based in Texas. On average, the RN telemetry daily pay nurse can make up to $74,000 per year.
The most lucrative position for a registered nurse in Texas is the CMA Certified RN Anesthetist, these highly qualified registered nurses can make, on average, a tidy sum of $165,000 a year.
Published: 2009-09-17
