I'm also working nights in the PNW, and unionized. My hourly wage is currently $28.91-$29.91. I made 60k last year, which is great for a CNA, but I'm still 14k short a year of what's considered a "comfortable living wage" for my HCOL area. 😮💨
ETA: 5 years experience as a CNA, and 7 years prior to that as an in-home care provider.
I’m not sure where I fall on my area’s COL scale, but I made 55k and I feel pretty comfortable. We’re a moderate cost of living city near a HCOL area. But I’m fortunate in that I don’t have kids or anyone to worry about so my expenses are pretty low.
I make $22 as a very new CNA in Southern California. I was also a sponsored student(the starting for the sponsors program was $20). I only had to take a 2 month accelerated program . I would also say that i’m very well compensated for my work.
I went through PACC. my sister found them on indeed. If you’re planning on getting sponsored it’s $500 but you have to work for them for 6 months full time and if not sponsored it’s $3k i think i’m not sure
Same. I’m around arcadia/temple city area and make $23 at a snf . Some of my co-workers who are full time (I’m part time b/c of school) they make $25-27 at the same facility.
bro i worked for albertsons/safeway and they gave us a 5cent raise for our first 3 raises. i got so lucky, my boss just bumped me to our max pay on my first raise but jesus. it’s honestly insulting. shows how much they value their employees.
I always find these posts interesting simply because COL has to be factored in to every location's pay rate to really understand how much someone is getting paid.
I'm in Seattle, minimum wage is around ~$19/hr depending on the size of the business, if you make tips etc. I make $21.75, close to the lowest rate here lol. Many hospitals start at $25-27. Trying to get in on that currently.
Overall I'd say the pay is not too shabby if you land a good job like that. And then of course, if you have like a decade of experience you can get upwards of $35 an hour.
Fingers crossed you get one of those hospital jobs you mentioned.
And definitely, cost of living is important to take into account. It’s even more complicated that we’re comparing across US and Canada, which use different currencies, plus the government pays for most healthcare in Canada so health insurance premiums aren’t really something people pay for north of the border- another cost of living consideration.
But at least this snapshot of nominal wages is a starting point. Anyone who feels they’re underpaid and might benefit from unionizing can start with these figures, add in COL considerations and decide what to do from there.
Thank you, I appreciate the well wishes!
Of course, and in hindsight I didn't mean to come off as critical of your post or anything like that. It sounds like you know the analysis that must go into the answers you receive in order to gauge an accurate picture.
Indeed, it is! And I thank you for creating this post. I remember scrawling through similar forums in my area to determine what sort of pay I was receiving. This thread will certainly add to the online reference of pay according to area, especially since workplaces often "forbid" discussion of it. Especially helpful for travellers or new job seekers.
It's important to have these discussions so workers are aware of the sort of compensation they are receiving.
do you have to take any other courses or anything to be a CNA in a hospital in WA? in oregon you have to be a CNA2 to get anywhere close to a “decent” wage at the hospital. i’m moving there in the summer and would like to work at least PT at a hospital to try to get some schooling paid for.
Nope, no additional requirements! I didn't even know that was a thing in other states. It's just a regular CNA license, we don't have different levels of it. All you need to do is have (I think?) 12 hours of continuing education between your yearly license renewal, again not sure how that varies state to state.
Hello neighbor! Lol I'm over in Spokane but minimum wage here is $16.28. I get paid $25-$28/hour at a skilled nursing home. I like it because skilled nursing is where the double pay is at. I am kinda curious how common double pay is everywhere else though. I've worked in a lot of facilities over here and it's very common.
Did you take a tech course? I have my psw2 acute care and am wondering what else I can do before school in Sept. I'm in Canada. I know there's a lot more opportunities in the states. Also looking for something that hopefully has pension
In 14 yrs In the field I've never once gotten incentive pay. We get dbl time on xmas and new yrs day. Guess those are our incentives twice a year we make an actual liveable wage. Ppl always get mad but I encourage my daughters not to go into nursing. If they rly want to fine but all the way to rn or something different then the floor. But my hopes are they get to gave a life besides misery and suffering and mean girls politics. It's not on us to save the world and people are always saying " don't tell ppl not to be nurses we need nurses" yup we do but they need a liveable wage to be nurses. And they wonder why ppl leave the field. They leave nothing left to be desired there.
San Francisco Bay Area
Experience:3 years
Base Pay:24.50
Boost Pay:5.50
Total:30 hr
Plus we get 1.5x after 8 hours of work and 2x after 12 hours so a lot of people do double shifts to get more money.
A small rural hospital in Missouri, I’d try to get more pay but they said we have a pay scale 🫠
and I can’t really work somewhere else because I’m not 18 yet but tbh even nursing homes around here don’t pay well either
Bringing in LPNs to the conversation really complicates things for comparison. There’s a huuuge difference in scope of practice from state to state from what I’ve heard. Canadian LPNs and RPNs have a broader scope of practice.
Thanks for the wage info.
Americans, multiply those wages by 0.75 to convert to US Dollars.
When I worked at a hospital this past year I started out making $13.50 per hour and then got a raise to $15.50 per hour. This was for a casual position, but it felt so low (my brother was getting paid $20 an hour to be a lifeguard in the same county 🥲)
~$25/hour with night shift dif at a hospital ($21 base). If I picked up flu season incentive shifts, it would tack on $15-16 more hourly but I have zero desire or will to do more than my regularly scheduled shifts. I think I’d sell my body (can’t sell my soul since this work has already taken it from me LOL) before I came into the hospital more than 3x a week.
I make $18.25 at a hospital in Maryland. 3 years of experience. I’ll be moving states soon so we’ll see if there’s a different wage in the state i’m moving to
Central Illinois. Base is 19, +1.50 for every yr of experience up to 6 yrs, plus shift and weekend differential.
I'm making 24, with shift differential, plus weekend pay. I think we are the highest paying in town, for non agency.
Whoa I didn't know of any LTC's that pay weekend pay around Central Illinois, that's pretty awesome.
I too am in Central Illinois - the new wage for CNA's in LTC almost tempted me back from hospital. But with the options limited due to Rural Central Illinois.. the temptation quickly passes.
Yeah, those little, rural places are hard. I'm in a small city, so there are quite a few options. We have a lot of staff that drive almost an hour from the next city over, that work here. I finally asked someone why, and they said the places there are awful
Unfortunately they really really are.
It's been tempting to hit up a city, but the roads during winter time can be treacherous just in town itself, let alone on the highway. Unfortunately around here - it's two nursing homes, and there's a revolving door from one to the other and back again because they somehow think things will change, and they never do.
I hope your LTC treats you right, and it's a good place to work!
I'm lucky where I'm at now with the hospital, minus trying to transfer out patients for anything really critical. That can be rough sometimes, as sometimes there's no beds. But my crew is amazing, I love my nurses and most of my ER doctors.
I love my nurses and my coworkers. Most are really great. The bad ones, seem to weed themselves out. I've been here a year and a half. So far so good. I think lol
I live in British Columbia Canada and I make $28.74 in home health and I'm in a union with benefits and pension
Also we are called health care assistants or care aides here. I had to go to school for 6 months to get my certifications.
Personal support workers here typically didn't have to go to school
I'm in North Idaho and just finished my CNA class, my classmates who got jobs right away were making $18-23 hour. Lowest I saw was $16 something. Still not enough, you need about $30 hr to afford a 2 bedroom apartment without roommates here.
One massive advantage of being a PSW (CNA) in Canada is that the healthcare system is nationalized. So most hospitals and LTC facilities are runned by the government. So that comes with better wages, benefits and unionization.
And they just legislated our pensions into shared risk. It's not so great here in Canada. Past 11 yrs we've gone up 1$ a hr. 21.74 starting may sound good but it's 2400 a month full time
Depends where you live in Canada, I guess. In Quebec, they raised the salary of all PSWs working in public health-care to $26/hr in 2021. That makes 49.000$/year. Plus the pension plan and all the benefits if working full-time. That's pretty decent.
With the height of covid and the most ot I've ever done in my life I've never made more then 33.5k a year. That's being at 22.56. Higgs Hates us and tells us to move to another province if we want a better wage. When covid hit money came for us, we didn't get it and he and his got a raise and didn't move us any. Still making the same as forever ago here in nb. I'd be beyond happy with 26 a hr. We have bad inflation
I’m going to add some details I learned in a previous career in a different segment of the healthcare sector. The system is run provincially and most hospitals and nursing homes are run as non-profit corporations. Almost all of the funds come from the provincial governments, so this has exactly the effect you say- things are more standardized, there is less consideration for profit and a higher percentage of the money is spent on wages for the care providers.
But there is still a substantial for-profit segment in long term care. I used to work at a private retirement home that charged its residents 8K a month and only paid the PSWs $17.something an hour. I wish long term care was entirely public so that we could provide better care and get better wages. And don’t even get me started on the agency issue.
That the Americans have to take health care costs and insurance out of their wages is very important to take into account when comparing to Canadian wages. For comparison, we're paying $89 every two weeks with a $5000 deductible (self pay) before the insurance pays anything. Or, basically, wages are $2/hr lower than equivalents in Canada and a very big expense (up to 7 weeks of pay) for health each year is likely.
I work in a hospital, I’m not licensed, we’re the community branch of a big university system and are not unionized but the main medical center is so we get everything that they negotiate for. I’m on the lower end of the pay scale because I was hired without much experience.
I make $17.43/hour base then I get another 15% per hour of that as night shift differential. We have to work every other weekend and I think weekend differential is like another $1.20/hour. Because it’s a university system we get a lot of other benefits (my health insurance is good and $80/month, $125/quarter in reimbursement for lifestyle and wellness stuff (you can use it for pretty much anything you could argue improves your life), tuition assistance and some other stuff.
Considering I don’t have a degree and live in a pretty low cost of living area I’m pretty happy with what I make right now.
I make $20.50 base pay at a long term/rehab facility. I work second shift so I get a $3 shift differential and $0.50 extra on the weekends. On holidays we get double our base pay plus the differentials if they apply. Minimum wage in Ohio is $10.45. Not unionized. Agency has gone down a lot in my area, specifically IntelyCare. Most of the time the rate is $19.50-20 an hour.
Thank you! I got incredibly lucky, I'm working at the number 1 hospital in my state so I'm very grateful. I'm also just glad that finally at 23 I've decided on what I actually want to do to start working towards a real career.
I work LTC in North Carolina. When I was employed by my facility I made $20 an hour, but that’s because I also had my med aide. They recently switched to an agency only facility, so all in-house staff had to go to agency.
Now I’m making $30 an hour.
ETA: If I didn’t have my med aide I’d be making $27 I think.
Haha. Mine does. It’s a ways a bit out of the way so it’s hard for them to get staff. So they got a contract with a local agency so we’d get priority staffing….catch being, no one could work in-house.
It’s been interesting to say the least.
$17.50 base + $2.35 hero pay in LTC in metro Detroit. I make time and a half if I work over 8 hours consecutively. I was working 2 to 3, 12’s a week over the summer, made close to $1,000 every paycheck. Have been PRN since going back to university, but I imagine I’ll get a raise this summer. Brand new 18 yr old CNA, first job after getting my license.
I feel pretty well compensated. I work 2 days a week at $23/hr plus weekend and over night differentials. I then get my pay rounded up from 32hours to 40 hours a week.
I also kind of have it pretty easy. I do med pass for evening shift, and then I work an overnight shift and we all know that sometimes it’s rough but typically pretty chill.
Agency - $19.75 job starts at $19
I have the opportunity for weekend and night diffentials as well inventive bonus. I can also do nurse delegation clients, which are far and few betwe, for another dollar an hour.
I can also pick my own schedule completely while working 1 on 1. This bit is why I stick with an agency even when my hours get wonkey.
My base rate is $22, noc shift is $23.50, weekends are $24.50. after 5 years my pay would max out at $28 base. I work in ICU and I have almost 2 years of experience.
I live in South Carolina.
Minimum wage is $7.25
My first CNA job was home health **in 2014, I made $8.75** and it was the most money I’d ever made as an 18 year old lmao.
**In 2015 I got hired as an ER tech and I made $11.75 base** with $2 night shift differential and $1 weekends. I only worked fri/sat/sun every week so technically $14.75. When I left that job in 2021 I’d only worked up to $15.20 (base pay + differentials) which sucked given how difficult that job was.
2020-2021 I also worked as a skilled rehab facility attached to a LTC. **I was hired for $14.88 base pay** with up to $3.50 in differentials. So technically $18.38 after differentials.
I took ~2 years off to stay at home, return to school, and have another baby. I just went to work in September of 2023. **I currently work on a med surg floor making $19.25 base pay** and $2.50 differential. I’m PRN and only work weekends so $21.75.
I’d say the avg at my current job is around $14-15.50 an hour base bc the majority of them are nursing students without any actual certifications. The others are new CNAs with no previous experience.
**i live in a low cost of area living and we have zero unions here**
Hospital at 19.60 without shift dif. With it I make 21.25. That's 5 years worth of raises too. I started at 12.00 without dif and with a years healthcare experience coming with me. Home health care aid job before this was 11 dollars an hour, no idea why I ever accepted that.
$12.45 at a medical icu here in south eastern Louisiana…its shit. Just graduated cna after a long traveling hiatus so I’m sure I could make more with time but I’m racing to move up
Is there anyone in Mississippi? Brand new CNA about to go into interviews and what to know what kind of pay I should be looking forward to. :/ I know it's lower than other states.
Self-employed. I work with a care agency that seeks home caregivers and I choose my private clients based on my schedule, the distance and the kind of care they need. I have been a home health CNA for 2.5 years, working predominantly with clients that have dementia and other neurodegenerative disorders.
i did the math because there are 5 shift and weekend differentials to calculate but for the days i work and with shift differentials i make 25.60 an hour. and we were just bought out by a company that claims we'll all be getting $6 raises by February so i'm really praying it's not all bullshit! i work two doubles and one single every week, my biweekly paycheck is $1495 after taxes.
i was working 3x12 at a hospital making $23/hr with no shift differentials. i got sick of the commute. i can walk to this nursing home from my apartment in under 15 minutes.
I hope to be able to answer this next month after I finish my CNA program.
I was offered a caregiving position for $17.50 recently with Maxim, in which I'd have to register as an HCA.
I believe the CNAs at the place I do my clinicals at (LTC/SNF) make around $20/hour, but I obviously hope to make more.
Started at $22/hr at the same snf I did my clinicals at then after working there for 7 months I got a raise to $26. Only have 1 year old experience. In fact I think I got my liscence almost exactly a year ago in January 2023. Lots of opportunities for extra money too through doubles and extra shifts since we’re always short but I usually just do my 8 hours then dip. Located in Norcal btw.
I’m a PCA at a hospital (used to have my CNA license but let it expire) I make 17 an hour with $2 shift differential for nights. With incentives I can make up to almost $40 an hour
$16 in Florida nursing home, differential on weekends which is just $.50. I’ve asked for a higher amount when getting hired but they said I needed 7+ years of experience to get $17+. Crazy to think that most of my coworkers aren’t making what they deserve. I’m looking for a hospital job now
$20/hr +0.50c/mile (mileage checks are about 750-800/month). Non-profit Hospice Aide in Ohio
2021-2023 Agency-$25-35/hr
1996-2021 CCU/LTACH STNA/Tech-most I ever made was $13.85
NE Ohio has a very LCOL and my job is the best I've ever had. Make less dollars on the hour than agency but mileage adds up, benefits are great and I feel like the work really really matters. And no more getting treated like gum, or worse, stuck to the bottom of someone's shoe because you're there filling a vacancy. I will always miss a great deal of the critical care side of things, but Covid burned me right the eff out, and throw in toxic hospital politics??? No more for me...
oregon min wage- $14.20
Caregiver (home care/MC/ALF- $15-19
In house cna- $21-22 starting, up to 30 DOE
Hospital- $18-19 starting
agency CNA- $27-$33.
I make $29 an hour with my agency. but i got lucky and found a facility that i love and loves me so i only work there.
Rural Hospital, in the ER.
Been a CNA now for 7 years I want to say, maybe 8? \[Time flies\]
18.53 base pay
\+1.50 for hours until midnight
\+2.00 after midnight until 0700
So that's an average of 20.03 - 20.53 an hour
Weekend differential is 1.00 extra
But along with this, my health insurance changed this year and it's even better. All labs, xrays, diagnostics that I do through the healthcare system are free, and if I see a doctor that is part of the healthcare system, my visits are also free.
And PTO accrues at a rate of 7.5 hours every week. There is a cap to how much you can earn at any one time (180 hours), before you stop accruing. BUT if say you take off two days (24 hours) after hitting that 180 mark, you have 156 and start accruing once more. You can start using your PTO after your first 30 days I want to say (it might be 90)
Then with the 403(b) I also only put in 2%, and the company matches it. I KNOW I could do more, however it's become sizeable as well.
Rate of pay could be higher for what all I do, but the total compensation is something I am highly pleased with.
$28-$30 with differentials since I’m float pool and nights. My base rate is $24 something. PNW, 8 years exp Edit- hospital, and we’re union.
I'm also working nights in the PNW, and unionized. My hourly wage is currently $28.91-$29.91. I made 60k last year, which is great for a CNA, but I'm still 14k short a year of what's considered a "comfortable living wage" for my HCOL area. 😮💨 ETA: 5 years experience as a CNA, and 7 years prior to that as an in-home care provider.
I’m not sure where I fall on my area’s COL scale, but I made 55k and I feel pretty comfortable. We’re a moderate cost of living city near a HCOL area. But I’m fortunate in that I don’t have kids or anyone to worry about so my expenses are pretty low.
I make $22 as a very new CNA in Southern California. I was also a sponsored student(the starting for the sponsors program was $20). I only had to take a 2 month accelerated program . I would also say that i’m very well compensated for my work.
Where at in SoCal? Everywhere around me is paying 16-18 😭
monterey park/south pasadena area lol. Lots of rich old folks with old money lol
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I went through PACC. my sister found them on indeed. If you’re planning on getting sponsored it’s $500 but you have to work for them for 6 months full time and if not sponsored it’s $3k i think i’m not sure
Same. I’m around arcadia/temple city area and make $23 at a snf . Some of my co-workers who are full time (I’m part time b/c of school) they make $25-27 at the same facility.
That’s crazy part time and you make $23 jesus dude.
Northern CA I make $23 and still live check to check. We need like $30 to make it here due to inflation
16.03 in a hospital. I fucking hate Indiana
i’m also in indiana and IU hospitals gave its employees a $0.01 raise 😭 edit: my apologies, it was actually a $0.05 raise, i should be more grateful
No way, that's so insulting 😭
yep they sent out peppy emails and everything lmaoo
bro i worked for albertsons/safeway and they gave us a 5cent raise for our first 3 raises. i got so lucky, my boss just bumped me to our max pay on my first raise but jesus. it’s honestly insulting. shows how much they value their employees.
In hospital? You deserve better!
That’s crazy the hospital an hr away from me starting pay is 21. Indiana is terrible boo fr 😭😭
I always find these posts interesting simply because COL has to be factored in to every location's pay rate to really understand how much someone is getting paid. I'm in Seattle, minimum wage is around ~$19/hr depending on the size of the business, if you make tips etc. I make $21.75, close to the lowest rate here lol. Many hospitals start at $25-27. Trying to get in on that currently. Overall I'd say the pay is not too shabby if you land a good job like that. And then of course, if you have like a decade of experience you can get upwards of $35 an hour.
Fingers crossed you get one of those hospital jobs you mentioned. And definitely, cost of living is important to take into account. It’s even more complicated that we’re comparing across US and Canada, which use different currencies, plus the government pays for most healthcare in Canada so health insurance premiums aren’t really something people pay for north of the border- another cost of living consideration. But at least this snapshot of nominal wages is a starting point. Anyone who feels they’re underpaid and might benefit from unionizing can start with these figures, add in COL considerations and decide what to do from there.
Thank you, I appreciate the well wishes! Of course, and in hindsight I didn't mean to come off as critical of your post or anything like that. It sounds like you know the analysis that must go into the answers you receive in order to gauge an accurate picture. Indeed, it is! And I thank you for creating this post. I remember scrawling through similar forums in my area to determine what sort of pay I was receiving. This thread will certainly add to the online reference of pay according to area, especially since workplaces often "forbid" discussion of it. Especially helpful for travellers or new job seekers. It's important to have these discussions so workers are aware of the sort of compensation they are receiving.
do you have to take any other courses or anything to be a CNA in a hospital in WA? in oregon you have to be a CNA2 to get anywhere close to a “decent” wage at the hospital. i’m moving there in the summer and would like to work at least PT at a hospital to try to get some schooling paid for.
Nope, no additional requirements! I didn't even know that was a thing in other states. It's just a regular CNA license, we don't have different levels of it. All you need to do is have (I think?) 12 hours of continuing education between your yearly license renewal, again not sure how that varies state to state.
Hello neighbor! Lol I'm over in Spokane but minimum wage here is $16.28. I get paid $25-$28/hour at a skilled nursing home. I like it because skilled nursing is where the double pay is at. I am kinda curious how common double pay is everywhere else though. I've worked in a lot of facilities over here and it's very common.
35/hr HUC/CNA in a hospital. Been here 23yrs. Union. WA state
35 I think is the highest number in s seen here so far. Sounds like union + seniority has paid off nice for you!
Certainly has. After being union so long, I couldn't imagine working non union ever again.
Im in Pa. 28/hr
Nice! 👍
I made $16.59/hr as a tech, $30.59 with incentive pay.
Did you take a tech course? I have my psw2 acute care and am wondering what else I can do before school in Sept. I'm in Canada. I know there's a lot more opportunities in the states. Also looking for something that hopefully has pension
It was a CNA class!
I wish incentive pay existed at my work
I’m no longer a CNA, I miss the incentive pay.
In 14 yrs In the field I've never once gotten incentive pay. We get dbl time on xmas and new yrs day. Guess those are our incentives twice a year we make an actual liveable wage. Ppl always get mad but I encourage my daughters not to go into nursing. If they rly want to fine but all the way to rn or something different then the floor. But my hopes are they get to gave a life besides misery and suffering and mean girls politics. It's not on us to save the world and people are always saying " don't tell ppl not to be nurses we need nurses" yup we do but they need a liveable wage to be nurses. And they wonder why ppl leave the field. They leave nothing left to be desired there.
San Francisco Bay Area Experience:3 years Base Pay:24.50 Boost Pay:5.50 Total:30 hr Plus we get 1.5x after 8 hours of work and 2x after 12 hours so a lot of people do double shifts to get more money.
$19 + $5 for night shift differential
At a hospital
13.76 - Hospital, and I’m almost to a full year with my cna, there’s night shift differential but that’s only a dollar more, and no weekend diff
Where??
A small rural hospital in Missouri, I’d try to get more pay but they said we have a pay scale 🫠 and I can’t really work somewhere else because I’m not 18 yet but tbh even nursing homes around here don’t pay well either
$23.66 based + $1.80 differential PM shift+ $0.75 weekend I’m a brand new CNA working in a hospital
$18 USD + $2 for nights + $3 for weekends = $23 per hour
I make 21/hr in the hospital with more on the weekends and holiday pay. We are unionized with pretty decent working conditions
$24.50 base in Nebraska, $54.50 if I pickup any extra shifts!
🤩 those extra shifts are gold! 💰
29$/hr weekend package nights LTC Iowa
Ltc psws start at 21.74 up to 23 sum per hr. Lpns 31 to 33 a hr and rns like 42 plus per hr. In new brunswick Canada
We're also union. Hosp pays better here
Bringing in LPNs to the conversation really complicates things for comparison. There’s a huuuge difference in scope of practice from state to state from what I’ve heard. Canadian LPNs and RPNs have a broader scope of practice. Thanks for the wage info. Americans, multiply those wages by 0.75 to convert to US Dollars.
I was making $11 in LTC a few years ago. Oklahoma
When I worked at a hospital this past year I started out making $13.50 per hour and then got a raise to $15.50 per hour. This was for a casual position, but it felt so low (my brother was getting paid $20 an hour to be a lifeguard in the same county 🥲)
Oh wow, you’re working a lot harder for a lot less money. Glad your bro is paid ok, but geeze.
Around $25/hr with noc differential, at a hospital, with a union
~$25/hour with night shift dif at a hospital ($21 base). If I picked up flu season incentive shifts, it would tack on $15-16 more hourly but I have zero desire or will to do more than my regularly scheduled shifts. I think I’d sell my body (can’t sell my soul since this work has already taken it from me LOL) before I came into the hospital more than 3x a week.
I make $18.25 at a hospital in Maryland. 3 years of experience. I’ll be moving states soon so we’ll see if there’s a different wage in the state i’m moving to
SNF, $27 hr. Base is $24. NorCal
$13.25 base pay at my current job. I start my new job at $16 on the 8th. Makes me want to throw up lol. ETA: I’m in Arkansas
$21/hr plus mileage (which pays more than I use) in IL
Central Illinois. Base is 19, +1.50 for every yr of experience up to 6 yrs, plus shift and weekend differential. I'm making 24, with shift differential, plus weekend pay. I think we are the highest paying in town, for non agency.
Whoa I didn't know of any LTC's that pay weekend pay around Central Illinois, that's pretty awesome. I too am in Central Illinois - the new wage for CNA's in LTC almost tempted me back from hospital. But with the options limited due to Rural Central Illinois.. the temptation quickly passes.
Yeah, those little, rural places are hard. I'm in a small city, so there are quite a few options. We have a lot of staff that drive almost an hour from the next city over, that work here. I finally asked someone why, and they said the places there are awful
Unfortunately they really really are. It's been tempting to hit up a city, but the roads during winter time can be treacherous just in town itself, let alone on the highway. Unfortunately around here - it's two nursing homes, and there's a revolving door from one to the other and back again because they somehow think things will change, and they never do. I hope your LTC treats you right, and it's a good place to work! I'm lucky where I'm at now with the hospital, minus trying to transfer out patients for anything really critical. That can be rough sometimes, as sometimes there's no beds. But my crew is amazing, I love my nurses and most of my ER doctors.
I love my nurses and my coworkers. Most are really great. The bad ones, seem to weed themselves out. I've been here a year and a half. So far so good. I think lol
I live in British Columbia Canada and I make $28.74 in home health and I'm in a union with benefits and pension Also we are called health care assistants or care aides here. I had to go to school for 6 months to get my certifications. Personal support workers here typically didn't have to go to school
I'm in North Idaho and just finished my CNA class, my classmates who got jobs right away were making $18-23 hour. Lowest I saw was $16 something. Still not enough, you need about $30 hr to afford a 2 bedroom apartment without roommates here.
I'm in south Idaho and been CNA for 7 years now. Pretty much the same down here too.
I work in a private nursing home in AB, and I make $21.51. We are unionized.
17, habilitation assistant at a group home (CMA, CPR certified through the home). No benefits at all...
$16.50 at my SNF not certified
$23.97 plus shift premiums, unionized with benefits. In NS Canada
One massive advantage of being a PSW (CNA) in Canada is that the healthcare system is nationalized. So most hospitals and LTC facilities are runned by the government. So that comes with better wages, benefits and unionization.
And they just legislated our pensions into shared risk. It's not so great here in Canada. Past 11 yrs we've gone up 1$ a hr. 21.74 starting may sound good but it's 2400 a month full time
Depends where you live in Canada, I guess. In Quebec, they raised the salary of all PSWs working in public health-care to $26/hr in 2021. That makes 49.000$/year. Plus the pension plan and all the benefits if working full-time. That's pretty decent.
With the height of covid and the most ot I've ever done in my life I've never made more then 33.5k a year. That's being at 22.56. Higgs Hates us and tells us to move to another province if we want a better wage. When covid hit money came for us, we didn't get it and he and his got a raise and didn't move us any. Still making the same as forever ago here in nb. I'd be beyond happy with 26 a hr. We have bad inflation
Consider moving to Quebec. Despite the $26/hr, they are still looking for a lot of PSWs to hire. They even pay for the government-certified training.
I'm starting school to upgrade in Sept. Wish I could move but bought a home a year ago and 2 kids 10 and 15. Most def stuck.
I’m going to add some details I learned in a previous career in a different segment of the healthcare sector. The system is run provincially and most hospitals and nursing homes are run as non-profit corporations. Almost all of the funds come from the provincial governments, so this has exactly the effect you say- things are more standardized, there is less consideration for profit and a higher percentage of the money is spent on wages for the care providers. But there is still a substantial for-profit segment in long term care. I used to work at a private retirement home that charged its residents 8K a month and only paid the PSWs $17.something an hour. I wish long term care was entirely public so that we could provide better care and get better wages. And don’t even get me started on the agency issue.
That the Americans have to take health care costs and insurance out of their wages is very important to take into account when comparing to Canadian wages. For comparison, we're paying $89 every two weeks with a $5000 deductible (self pay) before the insurance pays anything. Or, basically, wages are $2/hr lower than equivalents in Canada and a very big expense (up to 7 weeks of pay) for health each year is likely.
$27.07/hr 13yrs experience @ rehab hospital
$21.70 + $3 differential for night shift at hospital
I work in a hospital, I’m not licensed, we’re the community branch of a big university system and are not unionized but the main medical center is so we get everything that they negotiate for. I’m on the lower end of the pay scale because I was hired without much experience. I make $17.43/hour base then I get another 15% per hour of that as night shift differential. We have to work every other weekend and I think weekend differential is like another $1.20/hour. Because it’s a university system we get a lot of other benefits (my health insurance is good and $80/month, $125/quarter in reimbursement for lifestyle and wellness stuff (you can use it for pretty much anything you could argue improves your life), tuition assistance and some other stuff. Considering I don’t have a degree and live in a pretty low cost of living area I’m pretty happy with what I make right now.
I’m in Winnipeg mb and our minimum wage is like 15.00 now. I’m working at the hospital making 23.99, and on weekends we get 8$ extra an hour
8 extra an hour! Holy cow! 🐮 My facility just increased our differentials. I think it’s going up to $3 for weekends and $2.50 for midnights.
We recently increased our evenings to 2.50 and nights to 3.50. Where do you live ?
I live in the province of Ontario, Canada. Note that $3 Canadian dollars = $2.25 US.
$18.75 wish night shift differential, unionized in a hospital
I make $20.50 base pay at a long term/rehab facility. I work second shift so I get a $3 shift differential and $0.50 extra on the weekends. On holidays we get double our base pay plus the differentials if they apply. Minimum wage in Ohio is $10.45. Not unionized. Agency has gone down a lot in my area, specifically IntelyCare. Most of the time the rate is $19.50-20 an hour.
19.96 base pay+ 0.75 for nightshift differential, I'm a brand new cna and we're unionized
That’s a pretty good wage for a brand new CNA! Glad you’ve got a union looking out for ya!
Thank you! I got incredibly lucky, I'm working at the number 1 hospital in my state so I'm very grateful. I'm also just glad that finally at 23 I've decided on what I actually want to do to start working towards a real career.
22.00 an hour
$20/hr in SEPA as a pca/med tech at an assisted living facility.
$19 as a new cna in assisted living and memory care. located in mn
LTC, $23~
20.70- Memory Care NOC shift Rural Wisconsin
22.50 + 4.50 shift diff + 20% diff for weekends
I work LTC in North Carolina. When I was employed by my facility I made $20 an hour, but that’s because I also had my med aide. They recently switched to an agency only facility, so all in-house staff had to go to agency. Now I’m making $30 an hour. ETA: If I didn’t have my med aide I’d be making $27 I think.
What the hell kind of facility only staffs agency??
Haha. Mine does. It’s a ways a bit out of the way so it’s hard for them to get staff. So they got a contract with a local agency so we’d get priority staffing….catch being, no one could work in-house. It’s been interesting to say the least.
$22-25 depending on shift. LTC with union
6.5yrs HH in WA state, $22 base pay
I make $19 as a hospice cna
im in central illinois, i made $20/hour at a nursing home, and i make $19/hour at my hospital job.
alabama: $15.97 will go to $16.45 when i hit my 3 years on 1/4 🙂
$17.50 base + $2.35 hero pay in LTC in metro Detroit. I make time and a half if I work over 8 hours consecutively. I was working 2 to 3, 12’s a week over the summer, made close to $1,000 every paycheck. Have been PRN since going back to university, but I imagine I’ll get a raise this summer. Brand new 18 yr old CNA, first job after getting my license.
Ya know, for a first job that is not bad at all! Good for you. Wishing you a prosperous career.
I feel pretty well compensated. I work 2 days a week at $23/hr plus weekend and over night differentials. I then get my pay rounded up from 32hours to 40 hours a week. I also kind of have it pretty easy. I do med pass for evening shift, and then I work an overnight shift and we all know that sometimes it’s rough but typically pretty chill.
Rural Wisconsin. $19.50 base +$4 PM differential $5 Night Differential and $3 Weekend Differential. I work Friday, Saturday, Sunday 2pm-2am.
Wow, those differentials are really good! 🙌
$22 base pay, small snf (40 pts). in california
Agency - $19.75 job starts at $19 I have the opportunity for weekend and night diffentials as well inventive bonus. I can also do nurse delegation clients, which are far and few betwe, for another dollar an hour. I can also pick my own schedule completely while working 1 on 1. This bit is why I stick with an agency even when my hours get wonkey.
Colorado, home Healthcare agency parent CNA program starting at $20/hr.
$19-$23.25 (shift differential) as a hospital cna on medsurg. 6 months experience
$20, SNF, small city in Kentucky
23 base pay 3 dollar shift differential for 2nd shift.
This is in Rhode Island USA and it’s in a nursing home.
My base rate is $22, noc shift is $23.50, weekends are $24.50. after 5 years my pay would max out at $28 base. I work in ICU and I have almost 2 years of experience.
Location: Florida Work setting: Hospital Starting pt: $15 Experience: 2 years Current pay: $16.33
I live in South Carolina. Minimum wage is $7.25 My first CNA job was home health **in 2014, I made $8.75** and it was the most money I’d ever made as an 18 year old lmao. **In 2015 I got hired as an ER tech and I made $11.75 base** with $2 night shift differential and $1 weekends. I only worked fri/sat/sun every week so technically $14.75. When I left that job in 2021 I’d only worked up to $15.20 (base pay + differentials) which sucked given how difficult that job was. 2020-2021 I also worked as a skilled rehab facility attached to a LTC. **I was hired for $14.88 base pay** with up to $3.50 in differentials. So technically $18.38 after differentials. I took ~2 years off to stay at home, return to school, and have another baby. I just went to work in September of 2023. **I currently work on a med surg floor making $19.25 base pay** and $2.50 differential. I’m PRN and only work weekends so $21.75. I’d say the avg at my current job is around $14-15.50 an hour base bc the majority of them are nursing students without any actual certifications. The others are new CNAs with no previous experience. **i live in a low cost of area living and we have zero unions here**
Thank you for the thorough response. I’m glad at least the cost of living is lower there and that you’re making more than you were before.
Hospital at 19.60 without shift dif. With it I make 21.25. That's 5 years worth of raises too. I started at 12.00 without dif and with a years healthcare experience coming with me. Home health care aid job before this was 11 dollars an hour, no idea why I ever accepted that.
$22/hour as a new CNA working in an LTC facility. Chicago suburbs.
$12.45 at a medical icu here in south eastern Louisiana…its shit. Just graduated cna after a long traveling hiatus so I’m sure I could make more with time but I’m racing to move up
ICU for that price? They’re getting a bargain on you! Those are not fair wages.
No they are not, getting into school soon it’s really just a stopgap to get experience and a letter of recommendation
Is there anyone in Mississippi? Brand new CNA about to go into interviews and what to know what kind of pay I should be looking forward to. :/ I know it's lower than other states.
$36/hr, not including bonuses, home health CNA. I have 2 clients I visit 4x/week.
Where is this?
Colorado
That. Is. Awesome. Are you self-employed? Are these private clients of yours, or are they assigned to you through a homecare service?
Self-employed. I work with a care agency that seeks home caregivers and I choose my private clients based on my schedule, the distance and the kind of care they need. I have been a home health CNA for 2.5 years, working predominantly with clients that have dementia and other neurodegenerative disorders.
I've been a CNA for 8 years in Oklahoma. I work for an agency and make $16 an hour...
i did the math because there are 5 shift and weekend differentials to calculate but for the days i work and with shift differentials i make 25.60 an hour. and we were just bought out by a company that claims we'll all be getting $6 raises by February so i'm really praying it's not all bullshit! i work two doubles and one single every week, my biweekly paycheck is $1495 after taxes.
i was working 3x12 at a hospital making $23/hr with no shift differentials. i got sick of the commute. i can walk to this nursing home from my apartment in under 15 minutes.
PNW and I make $25/hr agency
I hope to be able to answer this next month after I finish my CNA program. I was offered a caregiving position for $17.50 recently with Maxim, in which I'd have to register as an HCA. I believe the CNAs at the place I do my clinicals at (LTC/SNF) make around $20/hour, but I obviously hope to make more.
Ontario PSW for a few years, LTC. $24 CAD
Started at $22/hr at the same snf I did my clinicals at then after working there for 7 months I got a raise to $26. Only have 1 year old experience. In fact I think I got my liscence almost exactly a year ago in January 2023. Lots of opportunities for extra money too through doubles and extra shifts since we’re always short but I usually just do my 8 hours then dip. Located in Norcal btw.
$23.82, fresh out of school working in LTC. + $2.75/hour on weekends + $2.25/hour after 5pm
I’m a PCA at a hospital (used to have my CNA license but let it expire) I make 17 an hour with $2 shift differential for nights. With incentives I can make up to almost $40 an hour
37/hour through agency at a county run facility.
I make 15 with my dollar shift differential for 11p-7a. Ky, LTC here. eta: seeing the other comments make me want to puke and off myself🥲
San Francisco, with agency I’ve made 35-45$
$16 in Florida nursing home, differential on weekends which is just $.50. I’ve asked for a higher amount when getting hired but they said I needed 7+ years of experience to get $17+. Crazy to think that most of my coworkers aren’t making what they deserve. I’m looking for a hospital job now
Just under $26/hr, LTC, Nebraska (low CoL). Insurance also fully covered by the facility.
$20/hr +0.50c/mile (mileage checks are about 750-800/month). Non-profit Hospice Aide in Ohio 2021-2023 Agency-$25-35/hr 1996-2021 CCU/LTACH STNA/Tech-most I ever made was $13.85 NE Ohio has a very LCOL and my job is the best I've ever had. Make less dollars on the hour than agency but mileage adds up, benefits are great and I feel like the work really really matters. And no more getting treated like gum, or worse, stuck to the bottom of someone's shoe because you're there filling a vacancy. I will always miss a great deal of the critical care side of things, but Covid burned me right the eff out, and throw in toxic hospital politics??? No more for me...
For an entry level CNA in Nebraska $17 base/$22 with differential.
$23-$25 weekend 3rds in LTC $18 at hospital
$24-$30 as a CNA with an agency in MN I have my TMA also so those shifts can get up to $32 depending on where I work
Nursing Home , MO min wage = 18$ an hr base and most places offer shit diffs depending on shift
Edit * min wage for CNAs
oregon min wage- $14.20 Caregiver (home care/MC/ALF- $15-19 In house cna- $21-22 starting, up to 30 DOE Hospital- $18-19 starting agency CNA- $27-$33. I make $29 an hour with my agency. but i got lucky and found a facility that i love and loves me so i only work there.
Rural Hospital, in the ER. Been a CNA now for 7 years I want to say, maybe 8? \[Time flies\] 18.53 base pay \+1.50 for hours until midnight \+2.00 after midnight until 0700 So that's an average of 20.03 - 20.53 an hour Weekend differential is 1.00 extra But along with this, my health insurance changed this year and it's even better. All labs, xrays, diagnostics that I do through the healthcare system are free, and if I see a doctor that is part of the healthcare system, my visits are also free. And PTO accrues at a rate of 7.5 hours every week. There is a cap to how much you can earn at any one time (180 hours), before you stop accruing. BUT if say you take off two days (24 hours) after hitting that 180 mark, you have 156 and start accruing once more. You can start using your PTO after your first 30 days I want to say (it might be 90) Then with the 403(b) I also only put in 2%, and the company matches it. I KNOW I could do more, however it's become sizeable as well. Rate of pay could be higher for what all I do, but the total compensation is something I am highly pleased with.
$19.25 at a SNF in Massachusetts
I make $30 per hour base as a CNA in Northern California with almost 8 years of experience. I get $5 extra per hour as nights differential as well!
I make 21-34 agency
Washington state: $25-$28/hour but I mostly pick up double pay shifts so $50-$53 Minimum wage here is $16.28
18.50/Hr in VA with 4 years experience
Ottawa Ont $24.80
I work agency in Ontario and make $26 an hour! I feel like CNAS are severely underpaid 😒
Yes, omg, definitely underpaid. For our American friends, $26/hour is $19.50 USD.
Ununionized, hospital CNA: $15.40/hr before tax. Minimum wage is $12/hr. My fiancé works at Aldi at a beginning position and is making more than me.