U to thank u for making this wonderful video 💫💖

Hello sir. My agency assigned me to NY. I really want to stay in NY for a long time. Which hospital system could you suggest for me to transfer in the next few years? Thank you!

@@kimberlyvillarosa1474 hi, that really depends what unit you are going to be working in.

Hey Jason, I’m also in Northern California and currently applying to the resident program. What type of volunteer experience did you have when you first applied! And did you put that you heard about the job via a referral from a current employee? Thanks in advance!!

Thanks so much!

And thank you for watching and commenting! Next video will be uploaded next week. I'll be revealing the wages for 3 of the top paying hospitals in the Sacramento area.

Thanks for watching and commenting!

You're welcome! Report back to us when you're in RN school!

Whaaat. That’s where I work lol

There really is a light at the end of this tunnel here in Sacramento. We do not regret moving here!

@@NursesToRicheshey so how do you apply or get in with Kaiser?

Thank you so much! I'm glad you found some value in these videos. Best of luck to you!

@@NursesToRiches Do you have any recent videos. Your videos are from COVID era, but nothing post COVID.

@@jorgebrena4402 I will work on posting some new ones in the next few weeks

Aww, thank you so much!

Hey, I started my first job making high 30s/hr in NYC. You getting experience is gonna make it so much easier to get into Kaiser. We have a lot of Nurses that used to work in Fresno. Btw, tomorrow I'm posting a video on how I applied for jobs at Kaiser, in case you might be interested.

Yes! Kaiser pays good or UCSF but you’re in Fresno 🙁

@@NursesToRiches can you please make a video on Boston. You made one on Cali, and Texas.

My best friend works at Cedars-Sinai in West Hollywood she makes alot of money, last year she made 135k staff nurse . She does have 25yre experience

You shouldn’t use abbreviations as a nurse.

Thanks so much for the comments! I never realized there were so many nurses interested in FIRE either until I started this channel.

Thank you so much! You rock!

That's exactly how Monica and I felt when we first found out how much nurses made out here. We didn't even wait more than 2 weeks before we decided to travel to California and apply for our licenses.

I'm starting out at 26.50 for new grad in ICU... They're literally paying 6k+ in the same hospital for the same position 🤦🏽‍♀️ I can't wait to get my experience & go travel

@@takeylaharrison8079 ugh! Cringe worthy but a year from now you will be a superhero!

Thank you!

Thank you so much!

Thank you so much!

Thank you! Glad to hear that. You are choosing a great profession.

PICC nurses are some of the happiest nurses I've met. Honestly, if I were to ever leave the ER, I would want to be a PICC line nurse too. It is a learned skill just like any other nursing profession, but if you love starting IVs I say you 100% try to go for PICC line nursing.

Hey thanks for the comment! If I were in your shoes I would get my license for both states and start applying for work in both states. If I'm offered a job in the east coast, that's where I would start working while continuing to apply for work in California. As soon as I'm offered that job in California I'd bounce. But, if the job offer comes from California first, that's where I would go and never look back. Hope that answers your question.

What's the big deal about Kaiser. lease excuse my ignorance.

Thanks so much! You actually have a pretty interesting channel. You should look into selling the clips or the audio on websites like storyblocks and epidemic sounds

@@NursesToRiches thanks - appreciate the suggestions.

I know, right?! That's why we moved. I had a student I was precepting while working in NYC who told me her parents made over 200k without over time, each! I thought she was lying. Then she sent me a copy of their wage structure and Monica and I were SOLD! Haven't looked back since.

Hi, my wife and I are both nurses and we both live in California. I have plenty of videos breaking down our pay. You can check them out. We're never going to work as nurses in any other state, that's for sure.

Unfortunately I only have the contracts for hospitals here in the Sacramento area and a few pay stubs I received from a coworker who worked in a Kaiser in San Diego. So I wouldn't be able to help you much with Southern California.

Yeah, it's right here but I need to publish an updated video because the wages are constantly changing kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h8V9oc9-pqfYnn0.html

@@NursesToRiches thank you for the quick reply! I’ve been binging your videos!!

@@nairusabdullahi7974 thanks so much for the support!

Hospitals like Kaiser give their nurses full benefits as long as they work 20 hours or more per week. We also have a template system at our hospital. So, when we get hired, we already know what days of the week we will be working for all of eternity (unless we eventually apply for a different template, which is very easy to do). We also have the option to choose from 4hr shifts, 8hr shifts, or 12hr shifts. For example, there was a position posted recently that would require you work 5 days per week, 4 hours per day. That means you would be working a total of 20 hours per week, but you would be going to work almost every day. My template, however, is made in a way where I work 8 hour shifts. I will work 2 days straight, off one day, then on 4 days straight, and finally off 7 straight days before I repeat the cycle again. Because I'm only required to be at work 6 days in a 2 week pay period, I'm only working a minimum of 48 hours (8hr shift x 6 days) every two weeks, or 24 hours per week. I hope that clears things up.

@@NursesToRiches thank you for explaining that in great detail :)! Do you usually have opportunities to pick up more hours with your schedule ? If so, are the extra hours counted as overtime beyond the 24 hours a week?

@@oliverlikescheetos you're welcome. The only time we had no overtime available was at the start of the pandemic when basically the entire country was shutting down. That only lasted about a month. But every single day before and after that month there is always overtime available. In fact, management practically begs us to pick up overtime hours. And, because we work in California, any hours we work over 8 hours in a single day count as overtime hours. Plus, after we pass 40 hours in one week we also get paid at the overtime rate.

@@NursesToRiches wow that’s good to know! Thank you for the info and prompt replies! Hoping to go back to the bay in a couple of months when I reach my one year icu experience. The market is tough for new grads!

@@oliverlikescheetos you're welcome. It's unfortunate because the Kaiser in Roseville just hired close to 50 new grads for a new grad residency program and I know many new nurses that would have loved to get into the program but found out too late about it. I hope all goes well with you when you move to the bay area. Let me know if you have any questions along the way.

Hi, I have plenty of videos on this channel showing our actual pay stubs. We don't pay anything back during tax season. We always get a refund.

I am actually filming that video soon and will be uploading it for all to see.

It's interesting that you ask because I have a coworker who came to Sacramento from San Diego and San Diego definitely does not pay more and the cost of living is higher there too. His rate was $66 per hour with several years of experience. His evening shift differential was only $2.32 per hour. I had him give me two of his pay stubs in case anyone wanted me to make a video about it

I've known several nurses go that route. Or you could do LPN instead to get your foot into a hospital setting and gain the type of experience you would need as an RN, in addition to being able to earn more money than an EMT.

This would apply to any Northern California Kaiser Hospital.

You're not the first to tell me that. Many of my coworkers have either moved from Georgia, Florida, Alabama, or Texas to NYC and California.

Hi Ayoka, it's 100% possible to do this as a nurse working in the UK. I work with a few nurses that got their training and worked in countries like the UK, Canada, Australia, Nigeria, Senegal, etc...

I work for the highest paying hospital system listed in my most recent videos.

@@NursesToRiches Kaiser?

@@alinawatt5957 Yes. Since this video I've discovered Kaiser is barely in the top 5 of the highest-paying hospitals in the state.

What’s the top 3 best paying hospitals in California?

@@alinawatt5957 El Camino, Washington, UCSF, Stanford, Kaiser North, in that order, are the top 5.

Work at any California hospital (specifically in a Northern California hospital located in a relatively low cost of living area).

Yes, only after the 8 hours in one day do you qualify for the 1.5x pay. If you work 4 hours after the 8h hour, those 4 hours are paid at 1.5x pay. If you work 8 hours after the 8th hour, 4 of those hours (hour 8 to hour 12) are paid at 1.5x pay, and the other 4 hours (hour 12 to hour 16) are paid at 2x pay.

@@NursesToRiches thank you for clarifying that!

You're welcome!

That’s even if you’re scheduled for a 12 hour shift? Or does it only work this way if you’re scheduled for an 8 hour shift but take more hours?

Oh boy.. I get what you're saying I get this comment more times than I can count. I should have an automated response for it. We average $15k to $20k after taxes every month. There's no way we would earn that much in any other state. After all of our expenses here, we're left with $9k to $14k. So, even with the cost of living, our take-home pay far outweighs our cost of living if you compare it to any other city or state.

I actually have the LPN contract for my hospital and can make a video discussing LPN vs RN salaries and benefits if you're interested. We have the highest paid LPNs in the country too.

Unfortunately, CNAs don't make much more out here than they do in other big cities but they can earn anywhere from $24/hr to $30/hr.

You can watch this video for an idea of what you could earn in other high paying cities in the US kzfaq.info/get/bejne/btNohseCrsiwpI0.html

Thank You for all your hardwork making this videos. I’m so blessed I found your channel.

@@veevee2942 aww, thanks! That really means a lot.

This video is on my list of videos to post 👍

Cali and west coast, pays the most . Mid west Chicago , Minneapolis and Milwaukee pays very well. And way cheaper to live . Stay away from thr southern states pay is horrible and radical right republican the trump kind 🤮 rules -so forget that ares. Health insurance yes most all of us have it I pay 90$/per pay period before taxes , and have 403b retirement also and other benefits. Then there is per diem ( you make your own schedule) usually gets paid more than staff . Then there travel nursing, again best jobs are west coast and Cali pays most. Most all mangers positions do not pay , much less than staff nurses. Sounds like Canada does not pay , just come to US , we like our Canadian neighbors to the north 😁. Good luck 👍

The states that have unions have free healthcare and will also receive free healthcare when you retire (northern states, not sure about west coast…definitely not the south)

I made two videos about applying for jobs at Kaiser. Here's one of them: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i9KggJBq1K2xfZc.html

@@SitBackandWatch.Official i was low-balling it in this video. My coworkers make $350k+/yr and one of our nurses made $850k.

Definitely accelerated BSN. I always believed (as do most nurses) that you should practice as a nurse before getting your masters degree. Plus, you could get your masters program paid by your employer while you're working as an RN.

@@NursesToRiches thks!!! I will follow your advice 😊

This is something I honestly considered before moving to California. But, now that we're here, my heart is set on retiring early with the high income that we earn. Earning over 200k/yr as a staff RN is just too easy here and can be done with no OT hours worked at all.

Wow, that's amazing!

@@NursesToRiches yes

You know it lol

Key words: you don't know a single hospital that offers these rates. Just because you don't know these hospitals, does not mean they don't exist. I literally have the contracts to all of these hospitals because they are all union-represented hospitals and the contracts are public information. There are staff nurses earning this much money and if you were to watch any of the videos on this channel you would see that I am not trying to scam anyone. I make the videos because I want fellow nurses to stop living paycheck to paycheck.

@@NursesToRiches respect

I'm sure you haven't seen any of our other videos. Every nurse I know here in Northern California is living quite comfortably.

Making $500 to $1000 sure sounds nice but, for the reasons you listed, working as a stripper is not a career you want to be in for too long. You can still get your nursing a license if you've worked as a stripper. So there's nothing to worry about there. And, if you get a job, as long as you aren't doing anything illegal or unethical in your job, you will be ok.

Curious to know percentage went to taxes?

The California Nurses Association union here is no joke. The last time the nurses didn't get what they were asking for in their contract negotiations, 97% if them voted to go on strike. The hospital administrators caved real quick and fulfilled almost every single one of our demands.

I'm an ER nurse. My wife is a Tele Nurse.

Amen. Yes he will

Lol

35-50 CAD. Agreed it’s a joke here

What part of Canada do you guys live in?

@@NursesToRiches Good old Toronto

@Red Face Well, Toronto and Sacramento are pretty evenly split when it comes to cost of living. The difference with living in Sacramento though is that your salary will be two times higher 🙂.

@rosalie Yes, she is 🙂.

@@NursesToRiches I am too living in Tn. I am in the nursing program but failed mental health 😩😩😩. I will go back next yr and hopefully pass til the 4th semesters.

@rosalie you can do it! Just believe in yourself and study hard and you'll be a nurse in no time.

I agree!

Travel nursing wages fluctuate and are nowhere near as high as they used to be. They also have to duplicate their expenses in order to qualify for tax-free stipends. I'm a staff nurse and make $103/hr. My wife is a per diem nurse in the same hospital system and makes $132/hr.

@@NursesToRiches thanks alot I got great benefit from the video. And thanks for explanation for Traveller nurse

You can make that much in any state as an RN.

I have videos on our channel showing our paystubs with the hours included.

@@NursesToRiches all good… I appreciate the content though.. been working on my cali license

Oh boy.. I get this comment more times than I can count. I should have an automated response for it. I don't look at how much we're taxed. I look at how much we end up with in our bank account when we get paid. We average $15k to $20k after taxes every month. There's no way we would earn that much in Texas. After all of our expenses we're left with $9k to $14k.

That's Northern California for you.

Who ever said I only do it for the money? Since when has it been a crime to want to earn money while also being able to do something good for humanity?