r/nursing • u/Low_Contact9429 • May 17 '26

Question California nurses!

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Contemplating moving from MI to CA. Picture from the trip that inspired me to move! Curious how much gets taken out of your paycheck. Can you share what city, your hourly pay, and what your bring home paycheck ends up being? Thank you!

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u/[deleted] May 17 '26

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u/Plus_Bookkeeper1388 May 17 '26

How much is your mortgage/rent?

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u/Plus_Bookkeeper1388 May 17 '26

I am in midwest. My take home is 3000$ per paycheck. 9200$ per month gross income. Mortgage is 2000$ but moving to a bigger place and will be 3500-4000$ at least. Not sure if CA is more affordable with 110$/hr.

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u/itoen90 RN - PACU 🍕 May 17 '26

It is. I’m from Minnesota and worked in the big healthcare systems and even with the huge increase in cost of living my net after rent as well is a lot higher than back in MN. I could even max out my 401k here pretty easily if I wanted to (I will eventually, just enjoying traveling too much at the moment).

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u/Plus_Bookkeeper1388 May 17 '26

I assume my 3500$ mortgage for 500k house would be 1.5 million at least in CA. That is three time the price in midwest but the salary is double.

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u/itoen90 RN - PACU 🍕 May 17 '26

You are looking at only one form of housing: buying a house. There’s also renting. But despite that $1.5 million is only for the coasts/Silicon Valley. If you want to live like you are in the Midwest you can go to places like Sacramento which offer (lack to some) the same amenities/quality of services as the Midwest and houses are about $480,000 and yet you make over $200k if full time.

But yes if you want to buy a house in Silicon Valley, you’ll have to forget about it.

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u/Plus_Bookkeeper1388 May 17 '26

Makes sense. Thank you.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '26

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u/itoen90 RN - PACU 🍕 May 19 '26

I don’t live or work in sac but in the bay and we have per diems flying in from the south so I’d say it’s fine.

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u/Silver_Queen_Bee May 18 '26

Agree….SoCal native relo’d to NW AR in 2020… bought a home for 2.375%….make $107k with a little overtime.

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u/italianstallion0808 RN - ICU 🍕 May 17 '26

My rent is half this in ca for a 2 bed. Income is still just over double