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radcon
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| I have two ex girlfriends who were nurses in Korea. I helped both of them become nurses in the US and now they are raking it in. One was a nurse at Samsung medical center here. Her pay was about 2.5 a month. She likes the big money in the US but more importantly US doctors treat her as a professional and don't make her make coffee and mop the floor and treat her like crap. |
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No_hite_pls
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| Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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The starting salary for a certified RN in Korea is 2.2 million of month and the top is about 4.5 million a month. Assist Nurses do get paid about 9000 an hour like back home but RN get about 25000 an hour.
For the poster that said they get 600,000 a month that is 500,000 below the minimum wage in Korea for a month. The minimum legal wage at McDonald's/Mini Stop in Korea is 1.1 a month.
Those girls are lying to you to get you to feel sorry for them.
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NYC_Gal 2.0
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| Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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| I've been considering going back to school for nursing when I move back to the US. Starting salary for a nurse with just a BA is about 80k in NYC. Do a MA part time, and that can double. |
Not to nitpick, but it's generally BS/MS, not BA/MA.
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| I've been considering going back to school for nursing when I move back to the US. Starting salary for a nurse with just a BA is about 80k in NYC. Do a MA part time, and that can double. |
You can make a lot of money but many get burned out quickly with the hours and the stress. |
You don't have to be a floor nurse, especially in NYC. My mom makes extremely good money with her bachelors in nursing and works from home. |
Oops. I meant a BS/MS. |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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| dairyairy wrote: |
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| I've been considering going back to school for nursing when I move back to the US. Starting salary for a nurse with just a BA is about 80k in NYC. Do a MA part time, and that can double. |
You can make a lot of money but many get burned out quickly with the hours and the stress. |
Yes, I know, but I want the money. |
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alongway
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
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| Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:45 pm Post subject: |
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No, it really isn't.
Very few nurses make that much.
my wife is a nurse and frequently checks the nurse job board, average salary is 8-9k/hour. If you are a pretty young nurse with some talent working at a higher end plastic surgery clinic you might get 2.5/month |
your wife seems to be underpaid (or didn't get her 4yr college diploma). according to the korean medical journal the average annual salary of hospital workers (excluding doctors but including nurses) is 35.46 million won (in 2010), and nurses make about 30 million. i've checked multiple sites and results are very consistent.
http://www.dailymedi.com/news/view.html?section=1&category=4&no=715844 |
She has her 4 year degree, and those are the averages. You may want to check where those salaries actually come from. Those numbers come from the actual jobs out there on offer. You'll also find that a large university hospital has a higher salary for some jobs, but most nurses are not working in those places. You also have to consider what the OP asked. Not the average salary over all, but the starting salary. Nurses with 10 years experience who have worked the whole time at a big university hospital might be making around 30 million a year. A nurse fresh out of university isn't getting that.
Taking some cherry picked salary from a big university hospital isn't reflective of the starting wage of the average nurse in Korea.
the average 4 year nurse is making around 8-9k/hour starting and usually not much more than that unless they do get long term at a big university hospital and rise up or get on at a higher end plastic surgery clinic. |
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No_hite_pls
Joined: 05 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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My friend is 25 years old and a RN nurse. She started last year and is making nearly 30 million a year at a crappy Hospital in a small town. She works at a near bottum tier hopital. It is not fancy.
Nurses are in High demand here in Korea like they are are in the west. Korean has an ageing population too.
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Who's Your Daddy?
Joined: 30 May 2010
Location: Victoria, Canada.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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| No_hite_pls wrote: |
For the poster that said they get 600,000 a month that is 500,000 below the minimum wage in Korea for a month. The minimum legal wage at McDonald's/Mini Stop in Korea is 1.1 a month.
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Plenty of places pay below the minimum and never get in trouble. You can even see job adds that state pay levels below the minimum. |
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alongway
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
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| Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:54 pm Post subject: |
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| No_hite_pls wrote: |
| My friend is 25 years old and a RN nurse. She started last year and is making nearly 30 million a year at a crappy Hospital in a small town. She works a near bottum tier hopital. Nurse are in High demand here in Korea like they are are in the west. |
There may be a demand in a small town, not a lot of young people want to stay in small towns. Seoul seems fairly flooded. Half the girls I run into want to be nurses or were nurses.
http://www.nurscape.net/intro/intro.asp
This is the general clearinghouse for nurse jobs in Korea, don't know if you need a nurse license number to sign-up for it to see the jobs or not. |
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IamBabo
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 1:26 am Post subject: Nurse in Korea |
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Hello,
My wife has been a registered nurse for almost 12 years, and I can tell you that the 30 million won mentioned is accurate. She tops out at about 35 million with night duty. She works in a local hospital, not a University hospital. |
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radcon
Joined: 23 May 2011
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 3:25 am Post subject: |
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| NYC_Gal 2.0 wrote: |
| dairyairy wrote: |
| NYC_Gal 2.0 wrote: |
| I've been considering going back to school for nursing when I move back to the US. Starting salary for a nurse with just a BA is about 80k in NYC. Do a MA part time, and that can double. |
You can make a lot of money but many get burned out quickly with the hours and the stress. |
Yes, I know, but I want the money. |
I guess you also want copious amounts of poop, pee, and vomit. Oh and blood. |
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alongway
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 3:39 am Post subject: Re: Nurse in Korea |
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| IamBabo wrote: |
Hello,
My wife has been a registered nurse for almost 12 years, and I can tell you that the 30 million won mentioned is accurate. She tops out at about 35 million with night duty. She works in a local hospital, not a University hospital. |
after 12 years, OP asked about starting salaries... |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 3:58 am Post subject: |
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| radcon wrote: |
| NYC_Gal 2.0 wrote: |
| dairyairy wrote: |
| NYC_Gal 2.0 wrote: |
| I've been considering going back to school for nursing when I move back to the US. Starting salary for a nurse with just a BA is about 80k in NYC. Do a MA part time, and that can double. |
You can make a lot of money but many get burned out quickly with the hours and the stress. |
Yes, I know, but I want the money. |
I guess you also want copious amounts of poop, pee, and vomit. Oh and blood. |
Eh, you get those things with having kids, too, though not on such a grand scale. |
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IamBabo
Joined: 16 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 6:55 am Post subject: Salary |
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alongway,
ok, i just asked her. her first year salary 12 years ago was only about 13 million won..
she says the salaries for new RNs now about 23-24 million a year.. |
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madoka
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 7:05 am Post subject: |
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| NYC_Gal 2.0 wrote: |
| Yes, I know, but I want the money. |
Have you considered teaching in the U.S.? If you're personable, self-motivated and intelligent, you can make six figures doing it. Starting salaries in the field I'm in are $50-80 in metropolitan areas. And it won't require any additional years in school or degrees. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 7:23 am Post subject: |
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| NYC_Gal 2.0 wrote: |
| radcon wrote: |
| I guess you also want copious amounts of poop, pee, and vomit. Oh and blood. |
Eh, you get those things with having kids, too, though not on such a grand scale. |
And again, if you're bright and motivated there are a lot of things you can do with a nursing degree that pay well and won't have you anywhere near any of the nasty bits. NYC Gal, look into pharma research, particularly if you want to live in the city, as a lot of companies have headquarters right across the river in Jersey. |
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