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In reply to the discussion: Krugman: When a business owner complains about being unable to find workers, ask how much he pays. [View all]AnneD
(15,774 posts)You are required to have intense education, the same as premed students and interns...continual education, to maintain your license. You generally work 12 hr shifts and are forever cheated out of lunch breaks and bathroom breaks. They call you a supervisor or professional to cheat you out of overtime...even though you punch in. You have to have the knowledge of an engineer to run the equipment. You have enormous legal and moral responsibility to the point of needing malpractice insurance. I know they take location in to account on those wages, but Nurses in the medical center make into the 80K, especially with experience, and that is what you want, an experienced Nurse. Cough up the bucks Bubba because Nurses are not working for peanuts like they have had to. I will give my skills away to a grateful person before I will work at top dollar for an ungrateful person.
And speaking of Engineers, MS magazine did a study years ago and equated female occupations and salaries to their male counterparts. Nurses skills were rated as similar to engineers. So tell me, what engineer do you know that makes $65-67K a year. That salary may seem high to you, but it is not even a middle class salary, it is lower middle class or working poor if you are supporting a family.