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Kaiser Hawaii starts a new grad at a calculated $54.05 an hour, and its contract pays for much of the climb to the top pay level. The Kaiser Hawaii clinical ladder opens after two years of experience. Once you qualify, Level V pays $6.07 an hour above the job rate, which is three times what 15 years of seniority adds.
Oct 13, 2026
Nurse anesthetist pay tops $236,590 a year, but taxes and rent decide the keep. See the cities where a CRNA keeps the most in 2026.
Oct 13, 2026
Kaiser Hawaii nurse starting pay comes from a formula written into the union contract. Kaiser counts your RN experience from the last five years and places you on one of five steps, so two nurses with the same number of years can start $23.16 an hour apart. I read the placement rules line by line so you can see where you would land before you apply.
Oct 12, 2026
Kaiser vs state nurse pay in Hawaii comes down to two contracts. One covers Kaiser’s Moanalua Medical Center and its clinics. The other covers state hospitals like Hilo Benioff and Kona Community, plus state and county nursing jobs. I lined the two scales up year by year, then added the pension, health premiums, and rent on three islands.
Oct 12, 2026
New grad nurse pay in Florida starts at $30.27 to $37.21 an hour at the three hospitals whose rates I could confirm, or $56,665 to $69,654 a year on three 12s. That is well below the $92,265 Glassdoor reports, and this breakdown covers what a new grad at each hospital keeps after taxes and rent.
Oct 11, 2026
The mid-size cities under 250,000 people where nurses keep far more than in New York or Miami, ranked by take-home pay after taxes and rent.
Oct 10, 2026
4,000 Boston nurses plan to strike Oct. 14. See what a Boston RN keeps after taxes, rent, and everyday costs, and why a six-figure check feels tight.
Oct 9, 2026
Four of the five states where RNs keep the most after taxes and rent sit outside the Nurse Licensure Compact. A compact license from Texas or Florida does not let you work in California, Alaska, Oregon, or Hawaii. You need a nursing license by endorsement from that state's board. In California, that takes 10 to 12 weeks. This piece covers what happens to your license when you move, how long each top state takes, what the wait costs a Houston, TX nurse each week, and when to give notice.
Oct 8, 2026
Yanira Eguileor is an ER nurse at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, FL. On May 30, a patient punched her three times in the back of the head and threw her to the floor. Florida treats that attack as a felony. The charge was still dropped 33 days later, because the only phone number the prosecutor had for her rang at the hospital. This piece covers what happened, what to put in writing in your own name after a patient hurts you, and what your paycheck does while you heal.
Oct 8, 2026
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