Staff nurse? registered Nurse?

As a new grad working in a major metropolitan area hospital, you can expect to make around $30 per hour to start, and with many years of experience you could make up to about $45-50 per hour. I don't quote annual salaries because many nurses choose not to work full-time since hospitals will often provide nurses with full benefits packages for far less than full-time hours. So you can calculate out the math for different amounts of hours.

The recession doesn't really do much to impact wages themselves, the poor economy impacts how many jobs are available and determines how easy/hard it is for a new grad to get work. Experienced nurses still have a fairly easy time getting jobs, but new grads are having a tough time. It will change, especially if you aren't even in a nursing program yet.

By the time you graduate things will have turned around. There is a very real nursing shortage which will only get worse in the next 10 years, so things will loosen up. Nursing is still, consistently ranked as among the best professions for long-term career stability.

Here in the Midwest Nurses start out making $25 an hour then second shift adds $3 and hour and 3rd adds $5 an hour to that price.

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