In 1992, my mom was a Labor & Delivery charge RN with 18 months of experience. Her pay was $21 an hour, plus a $1/hr differential for charging and a $2 night shift differential. In 2022, I made $32 an hour with a $1/hr charge differential and a $4/hr night shift differential. As an RN with more than 5 and less than 10 years of experience. Simply by the cost of inflation, my base pay *should* have been over $43 an hour-not accounting for experience wage increases. And yet. Nursing wages, despite the skyrocketing cost of health care, are not even keeping up with inflation let alone benefiting from increased costs. Where's it all going? To the CEO's. https://lnkd.in/gj_-Sh8k
Economist. Scholar. Writes about the economic value of nursing. *Nothing about nurses, without nurses.
⚡⚡⚡ Newest BLS data shows that RN salaries have been growing the least of other direct patient care professions over the last decade. RN earnings are falling behind physicians and APRNs, they are now closer to LPNs and NAs. University of Michigan's PhD candidate Hannah Ratliff, co-mentored by Deena Kelly Costa and myself. Full poster in comments--check it out! Commission for Nurse Reimbursement, Rebecca Love RN, MSN, FIEL