Nursing is a rewarding career option. Registered Nurses working in the United States get an average a median base salary of $41,642. There are several factors which determine the salary of a registered nurse. Salary of a registered nursing professional is determined by the needs and capabilities of a community, the work schedule, and the training, expertise, and experience required.
Registered nurses can be employed on full-time, part-time or casual assignments. The salary of full-time registered nurse is higher compared to the part-time and casual nurses. Apart from salary, the full-time registered nurses are also entitled incentive and bonus.
The experience of the nurse has a direct relationship with the salary of a registered nurse. While freshers or nurses with less than one year experience earn 21 dollars in average per an working hour, nurses having experience over 10 years can easily earn 28 dollars per hour.
The qualification held by the professional also has a say in his/her salary. While a nurse with master’s degree and three years experience can get an average salary of $59,600 per annum, professionals having diploma/degree get $47,110 in average.
Travel Nurse are well paid- A myth or reality?
Compared to registered nurses, the professionals opting for travel nursing as a career are better paid. This is due to several factors. They are
1- Travel nursing is a short-term assignment which needs the professional to relocate. Hence, employers pay more to the professional to attract.
2- The scope is negotiation is wider in travel nursing compared to the registered nursing. If the professional has a good negotiation skill, he/she can easily get a higher package.
3- The expenditure of the travel nurse on meal, traveling and boarding can be reimbursed as tax free income.
4- In most of the case, the employer provides a free accommodation.
Anirban Bhattacharya
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/registered-nursing-how-much-can-you-earn-721721.html
Any suggestions on how I can find salary range for a specific position within a specific company prior to a job interview? I dont want to call and ask HR office at this stage and have had two phone interviews and never have they stated salary range nor asked my current salary. Any websites that might be able to help find this info? Other suggestions?
HR is who you are going to have to ask to get the real information. If you know someone that has a like position you could ask them.
Many of us dream of buying a car. But so many factors restrict us to do so. Family or personal commitments, fixed monthly salary, expenses prevent us from purchasing our dream car. Thinking of burden on the expenses, most of us drop the idea. To overcome this obstacle, several financial entities offer special type of loans called long term auto loans. Through these loans you can buy the car and repay the loan on monthly basis without extra burden.
What makes them attractive?
People with fixed monthly salary plans their budget and expenses. Because of commitments, they do not want to increase their expenses by taking huge loans. In such cases, they can go for long term auto loans. Since the period of repaying loan is high, you cannot feel it as an extra expense.
Auto loans are of two types. Secured and unsecured. In secured loans, you must provide them with surety or guarantees. Usually interest rates are lower than unsecured. Loan payment period can be long depending upon your discussion with the money lender. In unsecured form of these loans, there is no need of placing collateral, but the interest rates are usually high.
How to lower interest rates?
Usually these are for longer period, so their interest rates are lower comparatively. But if you want to further decrease, pay high installments for first few months.
Another possibility is to pay big amount as a down payment. This makes the loan amount smaller, thereby reducing the interest rates. You may also consider refinancing after a few years to further reduce the interest rates.
Applying Online:
Filling various applications, waiting for days to get approval is a bit tedious. But this is what the conventional money lenders make us go through. If we apply online, it takes less time for processing. You need not present much paperwork. Many money lenders are providing all the information on websites, so you need not waste your time speaking to the loan counselor who will be trying to take a particular loan for his incentives.
In short, long term auto loans help you to buy your dream car without any extra burden in repaying.
Allan Greem
http://www.articlesbase.com/loans-articles/long-term-auto-loans-easy-way-to-repay-from-your-monthly-salary-718008.html
If it weren’t for the whole “copyright violation” thing, I’d reprint a certain article in its entirety on my blog. It’s called “The Salary Game,” by Donald Asher, and I love, love, LOVE it. It made me laugh out loud, and it reminded me strongly of the absolute impenetrability advised in my favorite section of J.P Donleavy’s hysterical book, The Unexpurgated Code: A Complete Manual of Survival and Manners. (That would be “Upon the Sudden Reawakening of Your Sordid Background.”)
It’s from the US Airways in-flight magazine, and Asher’s “Save Your Career” column in the February 2008 issue, and hopefully you can still read it online by the time you read this article. He has a wealth of practical responses you can use to turn the salary question back on a prospective employer.
The simple truth is, employers start with the upper hand when it comes to salary. They know what their budget is, they know what range of compensation they set, they know what the last person got paid, they know how much money they need to save on the next person they hire, and if they’ve got a bead on two otherwise identical candidates, they’ll go for the one who’ll take the lower salary.
What’s more, money’s still one of the greatest taboo topics in our nation. Sure, we constantly hear about the millions that celebrities make, but when it comes down to you and me - regular folks who happen to be good at what we do and deserve to be well-compensated at it - we often find ourselves uncomfortable when it comes to asking for the money we deserve. Not out of greediness, but from a place of sheer authenticity and integrity.
So when it comes to salary and negotiation, I beg these three things of you:
1. Read, re-read, and find more. Commit Asher’s article to memory, and keep seeking out more ways to handle the salary conversation.
2. Role-play. Find someone you feel comfortable with, and practice putting these tactics into action. You want them to feel so natural coming out of you that, when you get into the real situation, you get the hiring managers to automatically bend to your will.
3. Focus on the value, not the cost. Sales-type questions, like “What would you have to see in the first 60-90 days to know you’ve made the right decision?” take the focus off salary (an expense in their eyes), and put it on results (their income). And making a point throughout the hiring process to focus on results and performance makes it easier for a hiring manager to choose you over a candidate who may take a lower salary but isn’t as results-focused. That way, there’s a clearer ROI with you than the other person, and an easier decision.
Allen Voivod
http://www.articlesbase.com/self-improvement-articles/improve-your-salary-negotiation-skills-with-these-3-mustdos-686473.html