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I think I'd rather be the APRN working two 16 hour shifts on the weekends. Makin' bank. And then run a side business that's simple to manage the other 5 days.
I’m back as well, glad to see you posted. I also want to love to Cali, but I’ve yet to pass NCLEX, cuz I graduated nursing school 5 weeks ago. I live in CT. To maximize income, should I move to Cali or should I do travel nursing in Cali? Can you please make a video on comparing travel nurse pay in Cali as a bedside nurse vs staff nurse. Thank you
I was wondering if by any chance you can interview the RN who worked a year without a single day of rest, how she's managed to do it, how's her health conditions after working for a year, tips/tricks, and if she'll continue to do that. Thank you
Hi, I am an LVN. I work in Sacramento at an assisted living facility. I went to school for 11 months all for free. Through grants. In 2003-2004. I started at $15 per hour in 2004 Monday-Friday 8 hour shifts at Sutter Health. $2400 per month. Today I work for $35 per hour. 3 days a week 16 hour days. $708 per day because of overtime. I make a little over $100,000 per year! Just on an 11 month accelerated LVN vocational school commitment!! I love how easy my job is too. Just pass meds. No catheters, no IV’s no Gtubes, no doing any ADL’s my aides do all that. I work 3 loooong days then get 4 days off per week! I love your channel great content!!
MD graduate here - I love this video! Please continue to put out content with pay breakdowns and financial info. There is far too little transparency about real-world pay in healthcare, so videos like yours are valuable. I was just discussing this on the phone last night with my mom, who is an NP for vascular surgery. We are told that certain careers in healthcare are well-compensated, but we know little about what exactly that means. Patient care tends to self-select for individuals with an altruistic nature and concern for others. This is obviously good, but these same personalities are also prone to accepting unfair compensation rates and being exploited without advocating for themselves. It's important to know how much your labor is worth in terms of dollars and cents so you can negotiate a fair salary. However, it's difficult to find reliable compensation info with real numbers since it's still perceived as "taboo" to talk about finances in the field. So thank you for sharing information like this! (And shout out to all you nurses and NP's for your hard work! I learned far more about hospital life from nursing staff than I ever did from our med school curriculum.)
@@NursesToRiches hi I don’t think nurses should be paid more than doctors or surgeons. That is just a disgrace because nurses don’t work nearly as hard enough as all those other specialties.
@@harshanhothi455 By that logic, I don't think Wall Street traders should get paid double what a surgeon does. But they do. You get paid for what you bring to the market and how you can advocate for your skills and profession, *not* how "hard" you work.
I think your comparison is business field eWall Street is a completely different field from healthcare. Business field CEO have MBA, PhD business. But in healthcare a Physician MD/DO is doing the heart surgery, trauma surgery so to get paid less than a nurse from a 2 year community college or even a university masters in nursing & make more it will discourage students to become physicians & people won’t survive because we need physicians. Unless we phase out physicians and train nurses to do trauma/ heart surgery etc. 👉 💕 nurses are 🦸
To make it even more expensive to live like in California? People leave California in mass for good reasons. Absurd high cost of living is one of them. If you want to get paid more, move to California. Don't drag other states down the hill by following California.
yessss I did a travel assignment in cali I was blown when they said anything after 8 hours a day was time in a half....... Just Lovely........Great video
Thanks for watching! Yeah, it's too bad California is the only state that has such amazing overtime pay. If NYC had all of the benefits CA has we would have never moved.
I had no idea California had such awesome overtime laws! Being a nursing school student who routinely works 16 hour shifts as an EMT, this has me side-eyeing applying for a CA license and doing some travelling as soon as I put in a few years for experience.
I agree! I have a great relationship with the attending in our ER and we have joked that they need to unionize because they don't have nearly as many benefits as Nurses do.
I agree. It's kind of not fair, to be honest. Doctors wasted so much of their lives to have an MD degree and get into numerous so specializations, only to get paid less.
@@zenvirgil life is never fair.. You should know that by now. And female dogging about life isn’t fair is a cop out EXCUSE, you make choices, you create disadvantages in life to favor you.. Listen to the most successful top 1% of the 1%, they created disadvantages in life to favor them because they have made peace with themselves and accepted that life isn’t fair. You REAP what you sow. And biching ain’t nothing but EXCUSES
We have to keep in mind that most places don’t pay RN $90 per hour. Remember as a new nurse some places start you at $27.00 per hour and you are obligated to work 12hrs shift. Most state you don’t earned time and a half until you reach 40 hrs a week.
That is very true, which is why I used the median income for all of the examples I compared on this list. It is also why I mentioned the median income of a nurse in Sacramento. I want everyone to understand that Sacramento is where nurses should be moving to if they want to live in a city that has the highest-paid nurses relative to the cost of living.
@@savagesable everyone leaving other parts of California have been moving to Sacramento. This means that the cost of living has gone up dramatically over the last 2-3 years. However, when you compare Sacramento to other parts of California, the cost of living is still relatively low, and the wages for nurses (particularly in the Kaiser system) are still the same as they are in the bay area.
I live in Texas, work as an LPN and my homecare agency pays me $28 per hour at one of my jobs, and the other job pays $29 hr. I work 12 hr shifts 48 hrs weekly at first job, and get 8 hrs OT. I work 24 more hours sometimes another 36 hrs at second job, and no OT, but that’s just the money I put into my stock portfolio each month and I never touch that income unless there’s an emergency that requires me to. I’ve been an LVN for 16 years in Texas and 5 of them I’ve done straight up 1:1 care in home health and I would never go back to a hospital no matter how much pay they offered. I got so turned off and burnt out doing hospital care that it made me want to give up the profession entirely. Sure, I could make more as an RN, but I’m happy enough with my pay now and the amount I invest more than makes up for the pay I would otherwise miss out on. I spend at least three hours a day doing day trading stock options while on the clock, and I’d venture to guess my stock options alone pay me another $30-50k per year between options premiums from selling calls or puts, and on dividends. I’m also a retired Army veteran and 100% of my retirement pay gets put into investments. I’m 41 going on 42 years old with almost a million in net worth.
Im a nursing student in Sacramento!!! I’m very stressed about the amount of student loans I’ll have to pay off. Having this info eases my mind greatly. Thank you for all of your research!!!
You're welcome! And I used to feel the same about our student loans until Monica (my wife) and I moved here. We managed to pay off our student loans in less than, when we actually made the effort to do so.
Dejah, look at cost of living. Calculate your monthly loan payments. Sacramende is def a place where living is cheaper. How you use that excess money is up to you but I say work to pay off your loans before life gets bigger lol
@@NursesToRiches, he's right. Your transparency was the first thing that got me hooked. Of course I'm happily subscribed to your channel. Great channel, great presentation!
Wow this is amazing! Also being a doctor is hard because it takes forever to graduate medical and start working as a fully paid doctor… let’s also not forget the debt after med school… it SUCKS! So this is really eye opening 🙏🏼
His sentiment seems to glorify RNs making more than MDs/surgeons without ANY changes in their technical craft or education or patient care providing. He literally says just work more hours and you get paid more. cool. That is true for any sector of work. But why did he implicate MDs in this? It’s not parallel work at all. I’m not appreciating the constant RN/MD pocket watching when the pockets are different. So unnecessary and tacky. You can help yourself without comparing yourself to others in a different ball room.
@@sunflowerpower642 Most of the MDs I know , parlay their degrees into healthcare oriented businesses …making millions …not requiring shifts like this .
I work as a travel nurse in central California making 95$ and hour. I checked how much the doctors get paid specifically psychiatrists in my travel agency. Their paying the psychiatrist 400$ an hour. It’s pretty impressive how much nurses get’s paid but you can’t compare it to doctors especially if it’s locum physicians.
He isn’t being transparent, who the hell is dumb enough to believe this goof. Md makes way more than any nurse in Sacramento. He is full of it. MD is where the money is at. This nurse goof here doesn’t know what he is talking about.
FL I started at 26.5/hr mandatory 3 12 hour shifts. No overtime pay. 2 years later I'm making 33/hr, but still no overtime pay. Lesson: don't come to FL if you want to make bank.
I mean, not talking about md vs rn or anything, but Cali is where it’s at bro. Everyone tells me oh Cali is expensive to live but when you’re making 200k per year if taxes are 40% you’re still making enough to live quite comfortably, Mann I’m about to start actual nursing next year, it will be the most challenging journey in my life but I want to live comfortably and I’m from upstate ny. Can you do a video on how to pass nursing like the techniques that you used? Thank you, this vid was it bro.
Everything you said is exactly right. When you're making so much damn money and they take 30% to 40% in federal and state taxes, you're still left with a crapload of money! Monica and I live more comfortable here than we could have ever lived in NYC. I will see if I can do a video on techniques I used to pass nursing school and the NCLEX. Stay tuned!
@@NursesToRiches hold my beer. Look at my bio. MD transitioned to RN pathway. Finish soon, then nclex and off to Cali , make bank n later become travel NP in Cali
@@NursesToRiches many foreign doctors who came to the states , passed medical licensing exams but couldn’t get into residency spot had to transition into first RN and then some went NP. Florida international University IMG-RN program is known for this. Tons of MD turned RN via FIU. Google it bro. And while I might be topping my nursing classes, nursing is a different beast and very challenging. Still in my 3rd year. 👍
@@vcnap In the same boat man...foreign med graduate, board certified, just finished a BSN... when i see all the options in nursing, i even question considering a residency again (the only argument is the struggle endured to complete all those steps!!). All the best man, almost there!
she must take a lot of vitamins to work that many hours, Omg, I used to work only 3, 16 hour shifts at a time and that did me in, wow she's superwoman.
She always has plenty of energy when she's at work and never skips a beat. And the crazy part is that she told me her mother was a harder worker than she is.
I was talking to some of the doctors I work with and they said she makes over 3 times what they make but also can't believe she's willing to put her health on the line by being at work every single day of the year.
Sometimes we never know the whole story as to why someone is willing to do that . But human beings amaze me. What we think we can’t , wow you find someone doing it. Let’s pray she stays safe . Her reason maybe valid .
An RN can reach financial freedom earlier than a doctor just because of the time. Though MDs have a salary during their residency(50-70k in California), it most likely goes towards their living expenses. While MDs have to be in school for 10 years, a nurse can get their license in 2 years and start investing while taking on a debt of less than 100k(20k if you get your ADN in FL). MDs have to take on up to 500k in tuition debt. A nurse will have more than 10 years of investing time which will have better returns in the long run. Especially if that nurse aims to earn 200k a year with overtime. Imagine a nurse investing 100k a year for 10 years while a doctor will focus on paying off his debt after their residency. A nurse who invests 100k a year for 20 years will have 6.3m while a doctor who invests 200k a year for 10 years will have 3.5m. The doctor would need to invest 350k+ a year to catch up with the investments. Both avenues will lead to financial freedom, it's just a matter of personal preference.
365 days a year. 16 hour shifts. Sleeps in her car. Hospital thinks it's cheaper to pay her OT than hire more nurses. That sounds unsafe. Not to mention the cost of living in CA is higher. You'd never make that much living elsewhere, and the argument of "move to CA" is not simple if you can't afford to live there on your salary, or you're making just as much take home after monthly cost of living as you would elsewhere.
I would sacrifice my sanity for 5 years doing this in a heartbeat, to retire for life. I already work 70hrs per week for 200k, not in cali. Why not just work another 30-40.... wild
Great video! As an MD student hearing my attendings talk, it's pretty apparent that MD salary data is heavily underreported. Starting cardiologist salaries at my University's hospital are $700,000 per year and the department chair makes $2.5 million, and I precepted with a dermatologist who started at $500,000 after residency and currently makes ~$1.5 million per year in private practice. Internal Medicine salaries are low but that's the only path to access a fellowship in cardiology, pulmonology, oncology, etc... I feel bad for emergency medicine doctors because the state of that field isn't great right now. Either way, I totally agree that nursing is an excellent field too! A friend of mine is a travel nurse making easily $250,000 a year, and he finished school far earlier than me. Whether RN or MD, it's important to remember that it hopefully shouldn't be about the salary at the end of the day.
This video is a waste of time. You never actually stated what you do or how you earn that much. Cut out the filler, and state exactly what you are doing if you want to be helpful.
@@h5u7p5gt9 I wouldn't say the video is a waste of time, he has to discuss wage laws in Sacramento to explain how it's possible. tl;dr work in California and take on as many 16 hour shifts as possible to earn $800k as a nurse. Or for my comment, become a board certified dermatologist/cardiologist and work in any academic or private hospital system in South Florida-- no filler there.
You make more in rural places. In NY most academic places surgeons make 350k and derm 30pk. Of course those who have a nice private practice and are doing well are probably are making much more
@@uclaboy4lifewhere did this myth come from that you supposedly make more in rural places? Also how do you know the exact salary of a surgeon in an academic place in NY?
What!!!??? I live in BROKE a@#$$%! FL and the average hourly pay in that is Median- 31 dollars per hour. As a traveling RN I made the 6 figures in CA. I love CA. I will return to CA soon. Some FL nurses don't fight for better INCOME or pay.. CA has always been the forerunner for RN nurses. I am looking for a home in Sacramento, CA. Oh, I know what some folks will say," The cost of living is higherrrrr." I would say," No! Not if you are educated enough to get that best pay. For example, If I make 300,000 per year or more and I just rent not buying YET(!) I pay 1200 per month for a 2 bedrooms and 1.5 bath in a less crime area. Yes, I did. i was able to afford it. Then how much I am paying for rent? You do the Math. 300,000 after F/S taxes. It is only 12k per year for RENT. So, I have 288k in my pocket after F/S taxes again. Ok, take away another 10k per from the 288k. 277k. Wow! in contrast, with 300k in CA, FL RNs might TOP OFF 70k and the rent for 2 bedroom is 1800 a month or more. a I am not kidding 18k per year plus utilities and other things. so you are paying 25k and you only make 70 in a D.O.N or supervisory position. Along with a profit healthcare corporation that care a RAT@#$%! how it cause you to lose your license as an RN. Anyway, 58 to 70k per year. Then take away 25k. The 58k person may have 33k left. The 70k RN person may have 45k left. So, tell me how does " the cost of living viewed now when You do the math? ' RNs in CA average close to 800 to 900 percent better than FL RNs and other states. Yeah! Folks talk but have not lived in CA. I have. I will be BACK!! I just have some things to sell. These are the the bitter truths. Anyway, Man I love what you are saying.
Oh wow, I live in Sacramento CA, and recently graduated from UC Davis. I was thinking about medical school but changed my career to first RN and then CRNA. This is really something I needed more information about because I was not sure that living in Sacramento I can get a lot of job opportunities and even a good salary. So, Thanks again for this info.
While the 365 day 16hr run would be brutal, I think there are things that can be done to help someone pull it off. One thing may be to set up a van with a mattress and live-in accommodations in the back of the van, so they can save time driving and just go to sleep in the parking lot every night. Showers can then be taken care of at a nearby gym. 🤔
Lmao, the things you have mentioned are not too far off from what this nurse has done. It also helps that they never assign her to do any kind of bedside care.
at 1:30 this is already wrong. Time and a half does not come from working over 8 hours in one day but instead from working more than full time in a pay period
Huh? What do you mean working "more than full time I a pay period"? California's department of labor relations and human resources specifically states time and a half is awarded after the 8th hour of work in one day.
@@NursesToRiches So an example would be in 2 weeks full time is 72 hours. Three 12 hour shifts per week. Despite working 12 hour shifts per day, the nurse does not get any overtime since they are still within their 72 hour schedule. Source is from Sutter Roseville and Sutter Sacramento
Well now it makes sense why you are confused. Employees working 8-hour-shifts get 1.5x pay after the 8th hour and 2.0x pay after the 12th hour, regardless of how many hours they've worked for the week. Also, this is for all employees in California, not just nurses. If you are a 12-hour-shift employee, you do not get this benefit unless the hospital you work for makes an exception.
How long did it take to get your Cali license? I’m planning to fly into Cali for fingerprinting in August and hoping to start work there in January of 2024 if my license comes back that quickly. I’m hoping it doesn’t take a year like everyone keeps saying 😢
You would think... But if you met this nurse you would understand why. She's is super sharp and wants to be in every single code that shows up in our unit. I think the thing that surprises me even more is when she told me her mother used to work harder then her! 🥴
@@NursesToRiches I was meaning to ask . Her job have to be easiest if she works that much. No hard labor and never really have an assignment just help out here and there .
While these are excellent salaries, the thought of living in California is a major deal breaker. I am not making quite that much, but when I factor in cost of living it would equate to around 120k+ in california. The city I live in is much better than anything in California has to offer (my opinion). The money there is really good and tempting though, but I dont need many luxuries and live a good life.
Sounds like you found what works best for you. However, Monica and I felt like we had to move. Our work-life balance is a thousand times better here. We work fewer hours and still make twice as much as we did in NYC. We also love the fact that we have nursing ratio laws, better overtime laws, and the best parental leave in the country out here.
@@NursesToRiches so if you subtract the cost of living in Cali how much would you think she was bringing in? Because even half of 800K sounds like a dream and without all the med school debt and waiting for residency to end etc it sounds even better...we're talking about just an RN not a CRNA or an NP...would you say those persons have potential to make even more if they worked the way this employee does? Lastly, what's interesting for me is you don't mention covid at all...the travels are paid well due to covid but this seems like something that will endure either way which is what we need.
@@stevenwilliams6235 she is bringing home at least $39k per month after taxes. I have never heard of a CRNA or an NP making this kind of money but CRNAs are definitely able to make $300k+/yr with OT. And, yes, the reason why so many travelers stay with us permanently is because our rates and benefits are guaranteed, unlike traveler rates and benefits.
I know a FNP that works telehealth that makes 30-40k a month after taxes all online. It’s all based on the number of patients you see and he works for several companies at the same time and can pick his hours.
Bro these videos are amazing, thank you for your dedication. ✊ How would you describe different nurse specialties from your perspective, let’s say ICU, Med-surg, Cathlab and etc. Why would you choose one over the other, things like that. That would be a good topic knowing your perspective on this when you get a chance to make a video sometime. Anyways, thank you 😃
Wow, I work sutter in sacramento. Been thinking about picking up another part time position or per diem with kaiser. This really motivates me to keep looking for better opportunities.
I love that this nurse is focused on her career, but I don't know how safe I would feel as her patient. Working 112 hours per week is an insane amount of hours. I'm very surprised that the hospital allows her to work that many hours.
@NursesToRiches, oh that's good to hear, but how long can she continue to keep working like this? I'm assuming it's not good for her physical health or her mental health. The money is fabulous, but if you're sick, it's useless! Love all your content btw, it's truly wonderful and so inspirational. 💖💖
isn't the regular hourly rate a bit too high? I have never seen $93/hr as an hourly wage for an RN, the range is typically from $55-70/hr so how do you get a rate of 93, is it through experience, additional certificates, etc? Note: that I am not a nurse nor live in the US (Canada)
Good video! I think the MD numbers are low. MGMA shows neurosurgeons making 900k and other specialties higher than those AMA numbers as well. You are still definitely making more than lots of MD’s though! Congrats!
Wouldn’t say lots of MDs would say some. Like if an MD works part time and has a salary of 150k hypothetically then yeah he as a nurse would make more then that
You got me thinking about moving to California after I become a nurse at least for 2 year's then after back to the South I go lol. Love your videos very informative 👍
lets say $800K is in the best market, in the best paying area, with working non-stop, but $400K should be easily attainable and is still a TON of money with less college and less responsibilities as a doctor, I know as a nurse you do get your hands dirty more as nurses do most of the work and doctors usually just confirm what the nurse should or will do.
nursing is so brutal that it's almost physically, mentally, and spiritually impossible to keep that type of overtime up bc most have horrible working conditions.
I am a RN in NYC for the past 12 years . Finishing NP school in two months . Opening my business . With my side hustle I make more in my nursing stressful hospital gigi
A doctor requires a minimum of 8 plus years in school. A nurse spends 2-4 years in school. A doctor should always make more than a nurse simply based on incentives. What’s the point in going to school to become a doctor if you can skip all the education and go to the front of the line? It makes absolutely no sense.
I don't think you realize these wages are NOT the norm and 99% of nurses in the US are NOT making this type of income. The median salary for nurses in the US is $82,750.
Those are paid at the regular rate for the entire 12 hours worked unless you go over 12 hours in one day, in which case you will get paid double time after the 12th hour, or unless you go over 40 hours that week, in which case you get paid at 1.5x your regular rate for every first 12 hours over the 40th hour in the week, and 2x the regular rate after the 12th hour of work in one day.
Thank you for not making an intro of you smiling, getting coffee and looking cozy sorry but most nursing vids start off like this to look cool. Your vids get to numbers and facts and if you show this to most guys they would jump to nursing school right away.
Thanks for the great feedback. I do wish that my videos could get as much attention as the ones those nurses make but I think I just need to start making them as entertaining as they are informative.
Thank you for this week's video. As always, very detailed and informative. I saw where you did the run pay analysis in the comment section of your video of 5/2/21, that is worth an entire video. If I were you, I will use Monica's example as you did and do a what if with the 800k earner if the they did not forfeit theirs. You might also want to do an analysis of the after tax take home using using the format of your video of 6/6/21 if you have access to the W2 of the 3 hospitals. That will help clear up the tax myth of California. I see that you have debunked the COL myth in Cali, now some of us are shifting our focus to the tax myth.
I would like to know the net pay. Taxes could be crazy in California. I experienced last month the double pay. Unfortunately, we do not have that in Florida. As a travel RN, California is the spot to get good pay. Overtime after 8 hours sounds so nice and double shift pay is awesome. Thank you for sharing great videos with us.
Now we just need to advocate for pharmacists too. We get $50-$70 per hour for most of the inpatient jobs and unless you're a residency director or something, you're pretty much capped.
The 8hr work is very smart. But if you choose that shift is it easy to tell them that you want to pick up 12hr shift instead? 3 12s and 4 4s would be the most ideal
I tell myself the same thing every day. I'm happy with my schedule. I only work 2 days on, 1 day off, then 4 days on, and then 7 days off (all 8 hour shifts, but picked up 4 hours of OT per week), and I still managed to earn 155k last year. I worked and average of 26 hours per week, and Monica averaged 28 hours per week. She brought home 198k last year.
@@NursesToRiches that’s excellent. I’m applying to med school next year, but my boyfriend is finishing his second bachelors in nursing. We both work 12 hour shifts in the hospital, so we know how it feels to work 3 in a row. You have a really great channel, hopefully you keep growing!
@@XxKiDCuDiFTWxX wow, you guys are killing it now and will be killing it even more when you you're an MD, keep it up 👏👏. And thank you so much for the positive feedback!
Any Kaiser in Northern California pays these rates. I have coworkers that make over 110/hr as benefited staff. My wife makes 114.25/hr but she's per diem. I made a video where I broke down the pay of the top paying hospitals in the Sacramento area with actual rates for all of them.
Employers in California violate the law if they coerce or induce an employee to not take a day of rest. But employees may voluntarily choose not to take a day of rest as long as they are not being coerced into doing so. Dozens of Nurses I work with love working runs and are never forced into it. And, there are a few nurses I work with that have worked 365-day runs. If you ever meet them you would never know because they love working and they do an amazing job every time they show up for work.
Thanks for this! Just one question: when you accepted the position, did your employers give you options to work 24 hours a week? In the UK (where I am atm), it sounds like part time and no way 24hrs/week will be offered to applicants unless it's a part time position.
The recruiters post jobs online and they list the number of hours and days you will be required to work if you accept the position. They post jobs with hours that may range from working per diem, to 12 hours per week, 16 hours, 20 hours, 24 hours, 28 hours, 30 hours, 32 hours, 36 hours, and 40 hours. But these are the types of hours you will see in the ER. If it is a position for another unit, those types of hours are not plentiful, and they are few and far between.
Over here in Germany this is also not possible. Everything under 30hours is considered a part time job. Almost every employer has 40hour contracts, only some huge company industry Job with great unions have 35 hours. Also the pay is insane! Nurses in Germany usually get 15-20€ and 50% of it are taxes and state mandated insurance like health etc. America seems to be insane and hospitals make way too much money under their ridiculous and inhumane health care system. Nurses in Germany don’t get rich, but every person living here gets the medical treatment they need. No matter if they make a million or earn not a single cent a year.
@@rolux4853 I feel like each system has pros and cons. It doesn't do anyone any good to speak like this about each system especially when you have no experience in the other system. It is incredibly subjective.
@@roopskee17 can you please tell me the pros of not having healthcare for everyone? And please don’t come at me with lower taxes, a humans life is always more important than money! I’m not trying to mock you, I’m really interested what the pros are because I can’t imagine any.
@@rolux4853 First off, there is healthcare for all. Medicaid for those elderly who qualify and medicare for those disabled or unable to afford health-care, and some people qualify for both. Secondly, the ability to also pay for healthcare or aquire it through a company that you pay to have it. This allows for several levels of care with different options in whatever package you choose which allows for personalization. People like to say there is disparity of care based on free health insurance vs private pay but I am a college student who currently gets free healthcare/dental and so does my daughter. I have also payed through company before, I have seen no relavent difference.
If you're a day shift or evening shift RN, weekends are Saturdays and Sundays. If you work nights, weekends are Friday night to Saturday morning, and Saturday night to Sunday morning.
Working 100+ hours a week is not safe for that nurse or her patients. I say this having worked 24 hour shifts 48-72 hours a week as an EMT for several years. Now I'm a nurse, and I do plan to work plenty of overtime but not at the expense of my health and the health of my patients.
I get what you're saying but if you knew what this nurse did at work you wouldn't be saying that... She's got the easiest job in the world. She never has a patient assignment and she just takes critical lab reports and notifies the doctors, and she is just the resource nurse for anyone that needs help with policies and procedures.
@@NursesToRiches well that makes more sense then. BTW I I don't know if it was you or someone who looked a lot like you, but I was at the Safeway over by Sac City College the other day thought I saw you but wasn't sure so I didnt say hello.
I like this video but I feel bad for that nurse making 800k. She's sacrificing her sanity to work daily, and then has to pay $350k in taxes yearly. Great video though. Travel nursing in California is always amazing though because it is one of the few states that really cares about their nurses, both financially and mentally.
I have several videos that break down the numbers (exact numbers) of what nurses get paid in Sacramento and many hospitals in California. Don't go by what Google says is the average. The numbers are wayyyy higher than that. And I am currently at $98/hr with my base and night shift diff.
@@NursesToRiches It sounds like google is underestimating a lot of salaries. I know lots of primary care MD/DOs who are making well over 400K in CA. I wonder why everything is so secret lol
@mgmt girlyeah it's secretive because that's how employers would like to keep it. The less we talk to each other about how much we earn, the more they can get away with paying us low wages.
Hello, I know most of the time, nurses work 12 hr shift. So does that overtime starts at 9th hour of your 12 hour shift? Or you need to take a job that specifically says it's an 8 hr shift job and they ask you to work additional 4 hrs to cover for short staff? Just want some clarification on that. Thanks!
It would be the latter of the two. You do not qualify for OT after the 8th hour if you're hired as a 12hr-shift employee. Only employees that have taken an 8hr-shift position qualify for the OT. That's why a nurse that is hired to work 3 8hr shifts per week can still earn more than a nurse that is hired to work 3 12hr shifts, if the 8hr shift nurse comes in and works a full 12hr shift every day they are scheduled to come in for work (with the caveat that OT must be available and offered to the 8hr shift employee in order for that to work).
I've addressed this statement before but we moved here from NY. The median home cost in NYC is 107% higher than Sacramento. In Sacramento the median home price is $327,300 vs NYC's median home price of $680,500. Utilities are also 52.9% higher in NYC. Monica and I also earn $17,500/mo after taxes, pay $4k/mo for a house we bought at $697k and is now worth over $1 million dollars based on zillow and comps in our neighborhood. After our mortgage is paid, since we have no debt, we are left with $13.5k/mo to invest, spend, or use for anything else we'd like. I'd say we're doing just fine with the cost of living here.
Hi! Great video! And super transparent! Not sure if this has been answered already, but with being a “part time” employee do you still get benefits if only on a 24 hour a week schedule?
Many union hospitals out here give you benefits as a part time employee but they all have different requirements for the minimum amount of hours you must work in order to qualify for benefits. Kaiser, for example, will give you all of the benefits of a full-time employee as long as you work 20 hours or more per week.
This is eye opening yet not everyone is willing to move to northern California/ it is not plausible for every nurse in the country to saturate this small area. Working this much can lead to burnout and if you want this rate you can only obtain it in northern California. In this sense, financial freedom from making this much comes with the cage of being in 1 area and working unhealthy amounts of hours-if you can beat out the other nurses eyeing these areas. New nurses in Oklahoma start at 19-22/hour that is criminal for the amount of work and stress. This is why I am leaving bedside.
This is a great video, but how many hospitals will hire you for a 3 day, 24 hour per week schedule, and allow you to exploit the overtime like this? Is this common in California hospitals? Genuinely just asking (as a Nor Cal student whose graduating soon), not because I'm skeptical. I'm only curious because I've never heard of nurses here doing this. Yes, obviously, a lot of them pick up overtime when needed, but out of all the several hospitals I've done clinical rotations at in the bay area, you're either hired for 8 hour shifts or 12 hour shifts, and they tend to be VERY strict about avoiding overtime for both of those shifts. Again, that's only what I've seen as a student, so I appreciate any input you have. Thanks!
Unfortunately not many hospitals will give you this much overtime. However, if you're working at a Kaiser in Northern California, you are more likely to get a lot more overtime than in any other hospital system. Also, working in the ER helps even more because you can come in for just 4 hours per day when they need extra nurses.
Some things you're forgetting to mention are the overtime laws in California, parental leave, and nurse to patient ratios (just to name a few). We get 1.5x pay after 8 hours of work, 2x pay after 12 hours, 2x pay on the seventh consecutive day of work. There's way more to it than just an hourly rate.
@@NursesToRiches yes my numbers are before overtime pay, I am just making the point that when you use median or average hourly as your base number (before overtime, seventh day, etc) for the video it would have been better to clarify those details
Does your hospital allow nurses to work as much OT as they want? At my hospital they cancel nurses even if it means they’ll be short staffed cuz they don’t want them working OT
What’s the update on the nurse who actually worked everyday for $800k a year? How long did she really do it for? Did she retire and buy a business. That’s what I would have done
She owns at least one business and still continues to work more overtime than anyone in the department til this day. She's got it very easy though because she never has a patient assignment.
@@gingerandspice1209 she's always assigned as a nurse who other nurses go to for assistance with policies and procedures. And she takes calls for critical lab values.
The pharmacists here make around $85/hr. They don't have as many benefits as the nurses do because the nurses' union negotiated the benefits they have.
So she works all day, every day to make 800K that she probably doesn't get to really enjoy? I mean, maybe she's working hard to save money for her family, but at what cost? All that work is probably not good for her body and increases risks from accidents (ex. needle sticks, clerical errors, car accidents, etc.) Healthcare just doesn't seem like the industry for work-life balance. You have to work down to the bone to make a fraction of what teenage influencers are making.
@@mgmtgirlyeah7493I wouldn’t say teenage influencers are making that much they just show a face. They rent a lambo for 2k dollars for 1 day to film their video, and show a bunch of fake designer things to show how “rich” they are. I wouldn’t really say they are making much. Sure some do actually make a lot but they are absolute morons it’s like winning the lottery you get a huge sum of money you think it’s unlimited so you start buying a bunch of luxurious things just to figure out everything has a major expense to it which ends up in them later losing it all. Plus I’d say healthcare has a pretty good work life balance. This guys a nurse making a combined income of 355k with his wife. Some lawyers straight out of law school don’t even start with that much. And they work an amazing amount of hours each week and have lots of free time to enjoy themselves. Doctors also have a good work life balance in my opinion it could be subjective though to each their own. So I’d say medicine in many aspects has a pretty good work life balance. Just these people want to work above and beyond and make more which is fine it’s completely up to them it’s not forced as it’s all overtime.
I thought there were laws against nurses working over 36-40 hrs per week. Also - hospitals are so flush, they will just let people work time and a half year round?
There are laws against employers requiring employees to work more hours than allowable by the specific law, but there is no law that prohibits employees from working as many hours as they choose to work. And yes, the hospitals I've worked for are always in need of Nurses so they are always willing to pay nurses extra to have them pick up additional shifts.
Great information. But are you making 93 hr with a BSN or MSN ? How much experience is required before making these types of high salaries in California ?
I have my BSN. I work with nurses that have their ADN. Our union contract does not discriminate against degree types. I have a video breaking down the wage schedules of the top 3 hospitals in Sacramento. You can watch it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w_zeCiRCZnQ.html
@@XxKiDCuDiFTWxX that's true. However, the salary for nurses is very lopsided when you compare it to other professions. Our cost of living here in Sacramento is less than it was in NYC, yet we earn 2x-3x more per hour (even after taxes) than we did in NY.
Great video! I love your presentation. But I have only one question. What level of damage does uncle Sam do on her earnings? I ask because I know that the more hours one puts into work, the more ruthlessly uncle Sam digs into one's pocket. On one last note, working almost every day of the year is scary. When does she live life? What quality of life does she actually have? I couldn't do that, no matter the pay rate.
