Respiratory therapist make almost as much with 1/4 of the work, stress, and 1/2 as much school

Can’t work in a hospital without a bachelors at least not in NYC. There are some 30 year veterans who are grandfathered in but none hired in at least 10 years.

OT is a master’s - they and pt’s make very nearly the same only a few dollars less than RNs but job is significantly easier. 1 pt at a time sit down chart for 20min take your time walking hall to see next pt.

ICU nurses absolutely wipe ass. 20 icu pts and 1 aide is pretty standard at this point. At least it has been in my experience in 2 different nyc hospitals.

I work with a guy from Boston he says Boston is better for nurses as well.

Think it’s 88

https://www.nyc.gov/site/hpd/services-and-information/area-median-income.page.

Median income is $93,400

30k so figure you’ll bring home after taxes $1500 a month. With rent being $2000 tell me how your going to balance your budget. Tell me how you and someone else each bringing in 30k in a one bedroom are going to balance your budget. SMH

Your post tells me your unaware of cost of living in NYC. To put things in perspective a buttered bagel and small coffee is $7 in Brooklyn. My heating gas bill was $165 and it’s not really cold here yet. A 1 bedroom apartment in Brooklyn is $1900/month in a “bad” neighborhood, $2500 in a “safe” neighborhood and $5k in a “nice” neighborhood. Tiny 1 bedroom Condo is about $600k with $700 month maintenance fee. Forgetting fed tax, just ny state and city take 15% of what we make. Quick google search says average pay in nyc is 107k, so 6 figures is average and nurses make below average pay. Although we’re more educated than average, have harder than average jobs and more dangerous than average jobs (believe it or not nurses are hurt on the job more often than police officers) we would be happy with average pay.

Been saying this for years. Also, California fines hospitals 15k if a unit is short staffed. It’s time to enact either or both of these policies.

Many of my icu colleagues have their NP. Unfortunately there are way more NPs then NP jobs. Even if that wasn’t the case do we not deserve a livable wage?

Look up the cost of a house/condo in the city or more accurately in the suburbs since Manhattan is completely unrealistic. In order to commute to the hospital we need to live in a commutable range, then tell me what a fair wage is in this area.

Pay increases with years of service ~$1/hr per year and with base pay increases. If it wasn’t for that, you could image a nurse who started in 1980 still making $25k/year today. If we didn’t fight, the hospitals wouldn’t give us a dime more.

You had to leave your home office to take a flight, while we were doing compressions wrapped garbage bags for ppe. You want sympathy, really dude?

The only hospital employees that come close to fitting your description of having more education and less pay are pharmacists. They make more, not much more, but more, and it’s also not enough. The pay difference is due to them sitting in air conditioned rooms and sticking labels on zip lock bags while we are flipping dying obese patients to wipe their asses.

What other health care job requires both education, constant certification and physical labor? Honestly can’t think of any job in or out of healthcare that requires both in such quantities.

I’m a RN in an nyc ICU. Unfortunately nearly everyone I worked with during the pandemic has quit. I don’t blame them. The conditions and pay are atrocious. I have younger family members who told me they are thinking of getting their bachelors in nursing. I’ve done my best to dissuade them.

We watched as everyone stayed home and collected government paychecks while we slaved through the worst conditions without added compensation.

People banged on pots as we walked into work then treated us like lepers when in close proximity.

We watched as our friends and family took new stay at home jobs then moved to the cheaper suburbs, others negotiated pay increases to go back to the office. Our pay and work conditions remained atrocious.

We watch as the careers and savings of our friends and family with similar levels of education and certifications progress as ours dwindle.

We watched as the 2 top hospital executives each received multi million dollar bonuses and our yearly experience differential increased our pay by less than $1 an hour.

Now the executives who’s own health insurance is better, want to cut ours.

We’re sick and tired of it. It’s time to take what me made prior to the pandemic and at least increase it in proportion to inflation.