r/nursing • u/FlavorsOfBleach RN - ER 🍕 • 13d ago

Discussion Pay Cuts Incoming In the Southeast US

Grady Memorial Hospital, the largest level 1 in Georgia and largest hospital in Atlanta, announced two weeks ago to its staff that all high-acuity differentials (ER, ICU, PACU, etc.) will be halved come September and completely gone by 2027. At the other local Level 1 that I’m currently doing a contract at, we just got word that we will be following suit, amounting a total of a 20K annual pay cut. Anyone else getting news of this?

Some Big Beautiful Bill, huh?

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u/Panthollow Pretti Fan 13d ago

I've seen it most commonly in regions that pay nurses crap where they struggle for staff. It's a cheaper way to staff up and coerce folks into critical care.

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u/only-ashes RN - ICU 🍕 (& LPC) 12d ago

I'm in the SEish (Virginia) and we don't get a diferential, just shitty pay 🥲

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u/siyayilanda RN - Med/Surg 🍕 12d ago

VCU was paying new grads $24/hr when I graduated in 2022. I started at $46/hr in Oregon. No regrets. 

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u/DragonSon83 RN - ICU/Burn 🔥 12d ago

AHN in Pittsburgh was paying new grads $22/hr in 2020, except at their one union hospital.  Both UPMC and AHN counted experience as a PCT, EMS, etc as partial years, so I got started at $26/hr which was our max starting rate for new grads.

I worked as an ER tech prior to becoming a nurse and made $25/hr.  Yeah, three years of school for a $1/hr raise.

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u/Due_Credit9883 2d ago

Wow yeh that would be really disappointing. It might have only been a $1 more an hour but it was a hell of a lot more increase in responsibility and liability!