How Much Do Travel Nurses Make? My EXACT Pay Revealed! (It's A TON) 

Wow, thank you for sharing this. Im so shocked by ur transparency, thank you!

Thank you very much. I'll go travel ASAP.

Whoa what an eye opener👀

Love your honesty and ur channel ❤️

Good for you!!!!!

Currently binge watching your videos ☺️ great content 👍🏿

I’m a speech pathologist, and it seems like in healthcare/helping professions you’re expected to help people at any cost to your health, losing sleep/free time doing paperwork/ prepping, working the weekends to finish reports since I didn’t have time during the week, and caring about getting paid what you deserve or fighting to lessen the workload to cap at 40 hours shouldn’t be a priority because patients/clients come first. I’m glad to hear someone speaking up about this and how to make your career work best for you. In healthcare/ helping professions it should be normalized and acceptable to advocate for your needs financially and lowering caseloads if possible because we can help people AND take care of ourselves, and when these are both aligned they enhance our performance and ability to fully give to our patients. Like you said in other video, we are people too. I’m not a nurse but our field has a shortage as well and I’m exhausted. We’re always doing 2 peoples work cuz someone quit or they can’t find anyone. I like my field but the caseloads get outrageous…I’m still expected to go above and beyond, plus be enthusiastic about it otherwise I don’t care about the kids and I’m not doing enough. Do more with what energy and time….I’m thinking of leaving my current job, maybe hourly is the way to go. I’m salaried but a 40 hour work week is a joke, I’ll take a pay cut to actually work 40 hours per week. I don’t want overtime either, want less work, me tired. Glad you found what works for you though, thx for sharing 🙂

I was told by a travel nurse that our local hospital was 65% contract (traveling staff). So that is is only a 35% for local or permanent staff. When I asked WHY that was, I was told the hospital gets significant tax write offs for traveling staff. In my area people are massively underpaid for the reported state average. After nine years of working for the hospital I was still a good $12 dollars below the state average... so about 50% below. But it was everyone in the hospital. When I have been shown offers for traveling contract I'd be making more than those with doctorate's degrees with 20+ years of experience. Its really awful. All I can say to anyone reading this is don't waste your precious time hoping or thinking the hospital will ever appreciate you in terms of pay. You can't live off of pizza parties and accolades... you have to pay bills and plan for the future.

I have nothing to do with nursing but it’s like that in every profession. Thank you for sharing. I’m listening to broaden my experience.

Sounds like you are doing quite well. Good job!

Love your videos. I start my RN bridge program september 1st.

You should review the MGMA Physician Compensation Report -- it serves as the basis of physician salary negotiation for both physicians and hospitals and is the widely upheld as the most accurate source of physician compensation data. Travel nurses don't even make half of what the lowest-paid physicians make. Many surgeons -- neurological, cardiothoracic, orthopedic, etc. -- average nearly one million dollars per year.

Nursing sucks, but if you can stand the stress, go for it.

Thank you for this information. My boyfriend is a traveling nurse. I’m going to start asking some questions. 😎 I’m a teacher and traveling nurses are paid way more.

As a Turkish boy , ı want to come to America as a nurse :) ı believe one day ı will come there 😂 firstly ı have to improve this bad english 😂 good luck sweet nurse 🥰

Thank you I wonder if rates will stay the same. I’m currently seeing rates around 3,000 week.

I want some of that travel nurse money :-)

How to become an outpatient infusion nurse? I am RN.

How much experience as a new nurse would I need before becoming a travel nurse?

Which State? California nurses make about your rate and they pay even more for travel nurses. The unions in CA now in negotiation of total of 15% raise for a new contract due to the insane inflation rate here.

What agency do you use?

Hi mam. Do you think wound care nurse is best option. I am preparing myself for rexpn exam. Plz suggest me .

Weren’t you just crying about quitting staff nursing? Haha

As a cancer survivor, this is actually repulsive. I've had chemo. Not one nurse spent more than 20 minutes max with me during a chemo session. I'm not saying oncology nurses aren't valuable. They are. But to profit like this off of cancer patients is perhaps the only thing more abhorrent than the hospital system. Do you have any passion for patients? Because all I see in this video is a very entitled greedy woman who thinks her nursing degree is somehow equivalent to a doctor's and who wants $5,000 a week to dispense traumatic medications to sick, suffering; and dying patients. I'm glad you at least made this video so people can see your face. If you came near me in an oncology department, I'd refuse to be treated by you. Honestly, if this isn't exploitation of the most vulnerable patients, I do not like what is.