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Stanford nurse vs New York nurse: a new Stanford nurse at $92.77 an hour against 30-year pay in New York, after taxes, rent and the monthly basket.
Every California New Grad RN Residency Window Before January, With the License Deadline for Each
Nov 1, 2026
New Grad Nurse Take-Home Pay at 27 Union Hospitals Puts Ketchikan Ahead of San Diego
Nov 1, 2026
Five Years in California: What a Kaiser Nurse Keeps
Oct 31, 2026
Where Kaiser Beats Sutter for Nurses, and Where Sutter Might Win
Oct 29, 2026
No Tax on Overtime for Nurses: What Counts in 2026
Oct 29, 2026
470 Hospitals Ranked by Nurse Take-Home Pay After Rent
Oct 28, 2026
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California new grad RN residency windows for 2027: UC Davis, Stanford, Sharp and Kaiser dates, with the license deadline for each one.
Nov 1, 2026
Most new grads I talk to pick between offers by the hourly rate. I read the signed union contracts at 27 hospitals in 12 states and ran each new grad rate through 2026 taxes and local rent. New grad nurse take-home pay put those hospitals in a very different order. A new grad in Ketchikan, AK earns $19.94 less an hour than one in San Diego, CA and keeps $1,969 more a year.
Nov 1, 2026
Five years in California at Kaiser Fresno keeps about $490,318 after taxes and rent. See how far ahead that puts a nurse who moves home.
Oct 31, 2026
Kaiser vs Sutter nurse pay is the comparison a lot of Northern California nurses are making right now, while both employers bargain with the nurses' union this fall. Kaiser pays one scale from San Francisco to Modesto. Sutter signs a separate contract at almost every hospital, and two of its hospitals have no union scale at all. I lined up Kaiser's 2026 rates against current Sutter job postings in six cities, then ran rent, to see where each one pays best.
Oct 29, 2026
No tax on overtime for nurses only covers the extra half on hours past 40 a week. Three 12s get $0. Check box 12, code TT on your 2026 W-2.
Oct 29, 2026
Nurse take-home pay by hospital: all 470 hospitals in the Map My Pay app ranked by what a 5-year nurse keeps after taxes and rent, from Kaiser Fresno to Bellevue.
Oct 28, 2026
The top comment on our UCSF post, with 619 likes, asked us to list hospital CEO salaries and bonuses. Hospital CEO pay is public for every nonprofit hospital. I pulled Mass General Brigham's the week its nurses voted down a contract with no across-the-board raise. The CEO's pay turned out to be the least useful line on the return for a nurse deciding how to vote.
Oct 27, 2026
One comment on our Bay Area post said new grads from the Bay can't get hired at home. Another said recruiters tell them to work somewhere else for two years, then come back. I priced that plan for a new grad nurse in California, because the hospital and city you pick decide how much you bring home.
Oct 27, 2026
Based on federal forecasts, the heating oil cost this winter works out to about $2,709 for a Northeast home, about 21% more than last year, while homes on natural gas are forecast to pay less. For a Portland, ME, nurse at typical RN pay, that oil bill takes about 7.3 shifts of after-tax pay. I ran the same math for 11 Northeast cities.
Oct 26, 2026
