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New grad nurse pay in Florida starts at $30.27 to $37.21 an hour at the three hospitals whose rates I could confirm, or $56,665 to $69,654 a year on three 12s. That is well below the $92,265 Glassdoor reports, and this breakdown covers what a new grad at each hospital keeps after taxes and rent.
Oct 11, 2026
The mid-size cities under 250,000 people where nurses keep far more than in New York or Miami, ranked by take-home pay after taxes and rent.
Oct 10, 2026
4,000 Boston nurses plan to strike Oct. 14. See what a Boston RN keeps after taxes, rent, and everyday costs, and why a six-figure check feels tight.
Oct 9, 2026
Four of the five states where RNs keep the most after taxes and rent sit outside the Nurse Licensure Compact. A compact license from Texas or Florida does not let you work in California, Alaska, Oregon, or Hawaii. You need a nursing license by endorsement from that state's board. In California, that takes 10 to 12 weeks. This piece covers what happens to your license when you move, how long each top state takes, what the wait costs a Houston, TX nurse each week, and when to give notice.
Oct 8, 2026
Yanira Eguileor is an ER nurse at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, FL. On May 30, a patient punched her three times in the back of the head and threw her to the floor. Florida treats that attack as a felony. The charge was still dropped 33 days later, because the only phone number the prosecutor had for her rang at the hospital. This piece covers what happened, what to put in writing in your own name after a patient hurts you, and what your paycheck does while you heal.
Oct 8, 2026
Every pay line on a union nurse's stub comes from a rule in the contract, from the step to the retro pay after a raise. I read two Denver contracts, Kaiser Permanente Colorado's and WellPower's, to show how to check your nurse paycheck against those rules and what to do when a line comes up short.
Oct 7, 2026
Two signed Denver nurse contracts, at Kaiser Permanente Colorado and WellPower, set pay through rules that most offer letters never mention. I read both and turned those rules into six nurse job offer questions, starting with the one that moved the most money.
Oct 7, 2026
Kaiser nurse pay in Portland, OR, starts $28.94 an hour below Kaiser's Northern California scale, even after this month's raise. I traced where that distance comes from and what a Portland Kaiser nurse can do about it.
Oct 6, 2026
A flat night differential pays the same dollar amount at every step of the scale, so it makes up a smaller part of your pay every year you stay. I lined up how five West Coast hospitals write night pay and worked out what that choice is worth over a nursing career.
Oct 5, 2026
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