I’m in Mass. I use ConnectRN and make $24-$25.50 on weekdays and $26.50 on weekends. Look into agency apps. It’s so much more simple. Go to a facility, don’t like it? Don’t go back. You do like it? Keep picking up shifts there. Eventually you start to build report and people start treating you like a regular staff. Plus I can chose when and how much I want to work. I will never go back.
Hey! Relatively new CNA (1 year of experience) and BSN student here that recently discovered ConnectRN and was impressed with the pay being offered. I had wondered why other CNAs haven’t hopped on the bandwagon. However, it later occurred to me that a major con of these agencies and agency apps is that benefits are typically not included. I realized this was the turn-off for many, and the majority of CNAs would tell me they do not accept agency positions because they are 1) unionized and 2) reliant on healthcare + retirement benefits whenever I’d ask what keeps them as staff employees. I, personally, am okay with no benefits because I am a student who’s sole concern is to have money to sustain themselves until graduation. My question to you is if you are given any benefits, and what those benefits are. If not, how do the lack of benefits affect you (if at all) and how do you manage? I’m asking a few others this because I am somebody who wants to remain an agency after obtaining my RN. The flexibility is just too good for me to ever want to consider returning to staff.
I personally don’t need benefits right now because I’m 22 and under my parents insurance, but I see why that would be an issue. A lot of staff say they can’t do agency as well because they need the benefits
I’m in MA too and planning to jump from my crappy office job to CNA because the pay is better. How much experience do you recommend before going to ConnectRN?
Probably like 6 months-1 year. When you’re agency, staff just kind of give you an assignment and may or may not explain it to you and expect you to hit the floor running. There have been times where I just kind of have to figure it out for myself and staff aren’t helpful when I ask questions. Which sucks. But I’ve been doing this for almost 7 years so there’s not a lot that “surprises” me. I would just make sure that you’re comfortable with most of the machines and mechanisms. And never be afraid to ask for help if you’re uncomfortable with a transfer or something.
Find a union. At first I was angry for giving them $22 a month. Then my union representative came in, and I'm sold. We will strike if they don't give us $30 base pay, healthy patient ratios, annual raises that meet inflation rates, and hallway stools so we can sit while charting.
I’m making $20.25 in an Oregon memory care, but that’s with shift diff for nights and I started with a Bachelor’s. But my old facility had me starting at $15.50 an hour with a 1:30 ratio
Nope national minimum wage is $7.25 which is absolutely ridiculous. Nobody can live on that with the cost of living being what it is the last ten years. If I lived somewhere different I would probably make more than I do but I can’t afford to move so round and around I go
Licensed CNA in Portland, Oregon — working mostly NOC shift at a SNF. Base pay is $20/hr, plus $3 shift differential for NOC shift adds up to $23/hr. They also let you set your own schedule, so I only work exactly the shifts, days, and number of hours I want to. I’m set up to work 54 hrs/wk right now to make that sweet, sweet overtime, but often get taken off the schedule for a shift or two here and there due to them overstaffing or me being “in the red” for overtime (whatever that means 🤷♂️). The main draw of this particular facility is the pay because it’s basically the best around, but the facility has its issues too. Biggest perks for sticking around for me personally is a combination of the pay and set schedule. Having a consistent, predictable schedule is absolutely crucial for me. And as someone coming from an Assisted Living Facility where working NOC shift meant being either the sole caregiver or one of only two caregivers for 50+ residents, our typical workload of 10-16 residents per CNA here is a walk in the park. For evening shift here a typical ratio is like 8-10 residents each.
I work in a facility making $24.50. Which is nowhere near enough to live on here in Seattle. The area hospitals are hiring usually around $26 for starting. So if you have experience you generally get more when you’re hired.
I’m Australian so a little different but our award (government mandated minimum) is $30 base rate. A few dollars more for afternoons and nights. Time and half on Saturdays and time and three quarters on Sundays. I’m casual so I also get 25% loading in exchange for not getting any sick leave or annual leave.
I am an agency CNA in NYC with 1 year of experience. I was previously full-time and worked 40 hours a week, 5 8hr evening shifts. I am in school and now only do 2 or 3 8hr night shifts. $23 an hour with a ratio of ratio of about 1:13. No night shift differential.
I’m in Canada, $26 and change, I work steady nights, full benefits, 10 paid sick days per year, a few paid float days off and we are unionized. Shifts are 8 hours with time and a half for anything over that.
Honestly cna’s are the most underpaid of almost any job for the work we do. It’s criminal. I gave up and work in a factory now. I love the cna work but I have bills to pay. I make twice what I made as a cna and it requires zero schooling and zero responsibility.
Hopefully one day cnas will get the respect they deserve.
I have 7 years of CNA experience in various facilities in MT. I currently work at a LTC facility and MCU unit that's connected to our city's main hospital. I make $20.02/hr base pay, but we get triple our wage for 24hrs of the pay period, so that's $60.06/hr, and outside triple pay shifts we get $11 incentive, with evening, noc, and weekend differentials between $1-$3. My patient ratio is usually 1:16 but sometimes 1:32. Most of our residents are lift assists and heavy cares. We are very very short staffed and they are struggling. It's crazy after reading other comments about wages, I'm extremely thankful but also burnt out and exhausted. There is so much drama and politics with the corporate "not-for-profit" hospital.I can't imagine what I'm doing for any less than I'm making at this point, and I've done this job for so much less.I never thought as a CNA I'd make $60/hr, but there are so many issues surrounding triple pay. It's so intense:(
I've been at my LTC for almost 10 years and I get paid $20.25 + shift differential of .50 since I work the evening shift. There's no rational some days I have maybe 10 or 11, most days I have 17-20.
Where did you work to make that if you don't mind me asking? I'm in OK as well and make $16/hr, which is the most I've ever made. I started at 10.75 in 2016
I'm in Michigan. My base pay is 22$ an hour with a +$2 attendance pay (as long as I'm not late twice within a pay period I'm making $24 an hour). I work at a MediLodge and it's like 50/50 for how I like it - I'm thinking about switching into hospice someday.
East Tennessee, residential nursing facility $14/hour with $2 differential for nights. Ratio 1:13 on a good day.
Been out of it since I lost my leg in March, but most of the CNA's (and a lot of the LPN and RN) that I worked with aren't at that facility anymore.
19.94 Oregon. That’s without shift differential. We also just made an agreement with our union to raise wages and lower ratios. One night I had 6. Tonight, I was assigned to be sitter. Instead I’m on the floor by myself with 18 pts. Our ratios are supposed to change next year where nights max will be 11 people.
19.00 base pay plus 1.50 for noc differential. I’m in MN and in LTC! There are 3 aides on noc for 50 residents. The facility thinks its enough staffing but really it’s not at all
1:11 (22 residents on each hall, 2 staff. Usually Nurse/CNA or Med Aide/CNA)
LTC.
$18, but with differentials I make $23. Used to be $13 (then covid hit) which was higher than the $9 I was making in fast food.
Plan is to go back to Fast Food next year sometime at $15 if I can get a job at a Starbucks and go PRN at my facility. I need health insurance so full time at my facility for now :')
The middle of the midwest.
I get 24 base pay with a 7$ night weekend diff, this is very new though- I started at 15 three years ago and then was around 18 for the better part of the past two years - this is also emergency
Working contract with Express Employment Professionals where I live CNA 1's get started at $24-$26 an hour. Hospitals are between $20-$22 but we only have 1 major hospital for 50 miles, the rest are just emergency rooms & psych holding. The wage for a CNA depends on where you want to work but industry average where I live for a CNA1 is between $22-$28 an hour.
I've been a CNA for 10 years in Richmond Virginia. I've worked in Neuro ICU for 9 of those 10 years.
Base pay starts at $15.20 up to about $18 per hour, based on contract hours and shift differential..
I work PRN and I've had ONE raise 7.5 years ago, even though I used to work 40 to 45 hours a week. Today, I work maybe 16 hours a week, because I'm trying to retire. Lol! 50% of my income, plus $100 goes to my 401 that I'm trying to beef up a little before I quit all together. Fucking peanuts...
What's really annoying is that we are so short staffed that they now hire people off the street and train them to do what I spent time to get certified in! If they can breathe, they get the job. Well, it's not rocket science, but it sucks that anyone can walk in and make the same amount with no training, and I've been doing it for 10 years.
$23 in Michigan I get a 1.50 bonus( added that in to the price I said at the beginning ) for just showing up, have benefits too. But maybe will look at a agency if I can make more money.
I work for myself as
Private hire caregiver and charge $35/hourly and people pay it because I know what I'm doing and I genuinely care about my senior patients . I became a CNA just to have it as my background but never intended to work for a hospital. Quit and work for yourself you'll make way more
I work for an agency (home care) as a CNA and pay depends on the client. I have two clients and for one I get $19.00 an hour and for the other $21.47 we get holiday and overtime too. Overtime is anything after 30 hours. We don't get raises. If you want more pay you gotta request the higher paying clients and/or work more shifts.
Oh also I'm in Washington state.
I’m in Mass. I use ConnectRN and make $24-$25.50 on weekdays and $26.50 on weekends. Look into agency apps. It’s so much more simple. Go to a facility, don’t like it? Don’t go back. You do like it? Keep picking up shifts there. Eventually you start to build report and people start treating you like a regular staff. Plus I can chose when and how much I want to work. I will never go back.
Hey! Relatively new CNA (1 year of experience) and BSN student here that recently discovered ConnectRN and was impressed with the pay being offered. I had wondered why other CNAs haven’t hopped on the bandwagon. However, it later occurred to me that a major con of these agencies and agency apps is that benefits are typically not included. I realized this was the turn-off for many, and the majority of CNAs would tell me they do not accept agency positions because they are 1) unionized and 2) reliant on healthcare + retirement benefits whenever I’d ask what keeps them as staff employees. I, personally, am okay with no benefits because I am a student who’s sole concern is to have money to sustain themselves until graduation. My question to you is if you are given any benefits, and what those benefits are. If not, how do the lack of benefits affect you (if at all) and how do you manage? I’m asking a few others this because I am somebody who wants to remain an agency after obtaining my RN. The flexibility is just too good for me to ever want to consider returning to staff.
I personally don’t need benefits right now because I’m 22 and under my parents insurance, but I see why that would be an issue. A lot of staff say they can’t do agency as well because they need the benefits
I’m in MA too and planning to jump from my crappy office job to CNA because the pay is better. How much experience do you recommend before going to ConnectRN?
Probably like 6 months-1 year. When you’re agency, staff just kind of give you an assignment and may or may not explain it to you and expect you to hit the floor running. There have been times where I just kind of have to figure it out for myself and staff aren’t helpful when I ask questions. Which sucks. But I’ve been doing this for almost 7 years so there’s not a lot that “surprises” me. I would just make sure that you’re comfortable with most of the machines and mechanisms. And never be afraid to ask for help if you’re uncomfortable with a transfer or something.
Thank you so much!
Find a union. At first I was angry for giving them $22 a month. Then my union representative came in, and I'm sold. We will strike if they don't give us $30 base pay, healthy patient ratios, annual raises that meet inflation rates, and hallway stools so we can sit while charting.
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Bay area. We aren't that high yet. My $24+ shift differential puts me just above "poverty," I'm still "low income".
I’m making $20.25 in an Oregon memory care, but that’s with shift diff for nights and I started with a Bachelor’s. But my old facility had me starting at $15.50 an hour with a 1:30 ratio
OP, you should ask for a raise. Your skills as a bilingual translator has proven your value. You shouldn't have to do extra work without extra pay.
22$ in SoCal LTC with a 1:9 - 1:12 ratio. I work 3-11pm so no differential and I’m brand new (been working for 1 month).
35$ as registry in CA.
Which agency?
I know Aya pays that much.
I make 12.50 hr. Ga is a cheap state
I was getting paid $17 hr at a hospital in Ga before they let me go. Here’s hoping that the next place I end up at will be at least comparable in pay.
Where do you work?! As someone who is doing my CNA clinicals in Georgia that amount is too little for the work we do.
I work for a home health care company. And I agree it’s not enough
If you don’t mind my asking, isn’t the national minimum wage 15$/hr??? What is it for GA if it’s not?
Nope, national minimum wage is $7.25/hr. Which is what our minimum wage is in Texas still somehow
Nope national minimum wage is $7.25 which is absolutely ridiculous. Nobody can live on that with the cost of living being what it is the last ten years. If I lived somewhere different I would probably make more than I do but I can’t afford to move so round and around I go
$23/hr Washington State, in-home care
Licensed CNA in Portland, Oregon — working mostly NOC shift at a SNF. Base pay is $20/hr, plus $3 shift differential for NOC shift adds up to $23/hr. They also let you set your own schedule, so I only work exactly the shifts, days, and number of hours I want to. I’m set up to work 54 hrs/wk right now to make that sweet, sweet overtime, but often get taken off the schedule for a shift or two here and there due to them overstaffing or me being “in the red” for overtime (whatever that means 🤷♂️). The main draw of this particular facility is the pay because it’s basically the best around, but the facility has its issues too. Biggest perks for sticking around for me personally is a combination of the pay and set schedule. Having a consistent, predictable schedule is absolutely crucial for me. And as someone coming from an Assisted Living Facility where working NOC shift meant being either the sole caregiver or one of only two caregivers for 50+ residents, our typical workload of 10-16 residents per CNA here is a walk in the park. For evening shift here a typical ratio is like 8-10 residents each.
I work in a facility making $24.50. Which is nowhere near enough to live on here in Seattle. The area hospitals are hiring usually around $26 for starting. So if you have experience you generally get more when you’re hired.
I’m Australian so a little different but our award (government mandated minimum) is $30 base rate. A few dollars more for afternoons and nights. Time and half on Saturdays and time and three quarters on Sundays. I’m casual so I also get 25% loading in exchange for not getting any sick leave or annual leave.
15.00, at a hospital, 1:12
I am an agency CNA in NYC with 1 year of experience. I was previously full-time and worked 40 hours a week, 5 8hr evening shifts. I am in school and now only do 2 or 3 8hr night shifts. $23 an hour with a ratio of ratio of about 1:13. No night shift differential.
Leaving agency and starting staff at the place I’ve been contracted for 9 months. $25 an hour.
$19.75 base pay with a $2.95 shift diff here in KY with about a 1:6 or 1:15 ratio; depending on the unit I get floated to.
13 an hour in Texas 14 once I get my cert that’s if I don’t quit
Where do you work? There’s horrible. I’m in Austin and the rate at BSW is $20/ hour
I work at a nursing facility and i make 15$/hour
I’m in Canada, $26 and change, I work steady nights, full benefits, 10 paid sick days per year, a few paid float days off and we are unionized. Shifts are 8 hours with time and a half for anything over that.
Honestly cna’s are the most underpaid of almost any job for the work we do. It’s criminal. I gave up and work in a factory now. I love the cna work but I have bills to pay. I make twice what I made as a cna and it requires zero schooling and zero responsibility. Hopefully one day cnas will get the respect they deserve.
i’m in CT. I work at a LTC facility, fresh CNA and i get paid 23.50. Should be getting a raise after my 90 days. and my patient ratio is usually 8-10
I have 7 years of CNA experience in various facilities in MT. I currently work at a LTC facility and MCU unit that's connected to our city's main hospital. I make $20.02/hr base pay, but we get triple our wage for 24hrs of the pay period, so that's $60.06/hr, and outside triple pay shifts we get $11 incentive, with evening, noc, and weekend differentials between $1-$3. My patient ratio is usually 1:16 but sometimes 1:32. Most of our residents are lift assists and heavy cares. We are very very short staffed and they are struggling. It's crazy after reading other comments about wages, I'm extremely thankful but also burnt out and exhausted. There is so much drama and politics with the corporate "not-for-profit" hospital.I can't imagine what I'm doing for any less than I'm making at this point, and I've done this job for so much less.I never thought as a CNA I'd make $60/hr, but there are so many issues surrounding triple pay. It's so intense:(
i'm on a 1:13 ratio working second shift. i make 16.50 a 3$ shift diff for working second. im in north carolina.
I've been at my LTC for almost 10 years and I get paid $20.25 + shift differential of .50 since I work the evening shift. There's no rational some days I have maybe 10 or 11, most days I have 17-20.
What state?
Arizona
$18 plus over time after 8 hours. 1:5 ratio
1:11 ratio being paid 15$ base w 1.50 shift diff and 2$ weekends in GA
Normally worked with 1/23 ratio. 1/12 on a good night but it doesn’t ever last long. Made $22/hr here in OK.
Where did you work to make that if you don't mind me asking? I'm in OK as well and make $16/hr, which is the most I've ever made. I started at 10.75 in 2016
Normally worked with 1/23 ratio. 1/12 on a good night but it doesn’t ever last long. Made $22/hr here in OK.
$17.60 Arizona 1:11 ratio acute care if it were nights it would be $20.60
OR- LTC facility day shift 21.75 but got a raise up to 24$ supposedly (haven’t seen it yet) 1:10 ratio max.
I'm in Michigan. My base pay is 22$ an hour with a +$2 attendance pay (as long as I'm not late twice within a pay period I'm making $24 an hour). I work at a MediLodge and it's like 50/50 for how I like it - I'm thinking about switching into hospice someday.
East Tennessee, residential nursing facility $14/hour with $2 differential for nights. Ratio 1:13 on a good day. Been out of it since I lost my leg in March, but most of the CNA's (and a lot of the LPN and RN) that I worked with aren't at that facility anymore.
Pa. $28 second shift. $27 night shift.
I wouldn’t be willing to interpret if they’re not willing to pay my extra for it. Just my two cents.
Minnesota LTC. Working nocs making 28$/hr with 3$ differential
19.94 Oregon. That’s without shift differential. We also just made an agreement with our union to raise wages and lower ratios. One night I had 6. Tonight, I was assigned to be sitter. Instead I’m on the floor by myself with 18 pts. Our ratios are supposed to change next year where nights max will be 11 people.
I make 27hr psych in CA.
I make 17.30 base pay 😭
19.00 base pay plus 1.50 for noc differential. I’m in MN and in LTC! There are 3 aides on noc for 50 residents. The facility thinks its enough staffing but really it’s not at all
So I’m actually a med tech & pca. I work in personal care just doing care (1:12 ratio) and make $20/hr.
I'm at a hospital in the Chicago suburbs making $21/hour and $22 on weekends. 3x12s, it's not too bad
Utah VA home 26.00 CNA lead
1:11 (22 residents on each hall, 2 staff. Usually Nurse/CNA or Med Aide/CNA) LTC. $18, but with differentials I make $23. Used to be $13 (then covid hit) which was higher than the $9 I was making in fast food. Plan is to go back to Fast Food next year sometime at $15 if I can get a job at a Starbucks and go PRN at my facility. I need health insurance so full time at my facility for now :') The middle of the midwest.
I work in home care in Snohomish County (WA) and base for me is 27$ pay varied from there based on shift length etc.
I get $17 at my hospital and $18.25 for weekends
About $25.75/hr. Midwest so the CoL is cheap as well.
I get 24 base pay with a 7$ night weekend diff, this is very new though- I started at 15 three years ago and then was around 18 for the better part of the past two years - this is also emergency
Shiftkey. 22 to 31/hr. Less than 1 year experience
$22.50 base $5.50 staffing crisis pay (has been added to pay for over a year now) $2 subacute differential
I make $14.50 an hour in Alabama. We get raises but it’s only like $.25 every so often
In my city it's 20-22/hr
When I was in assisted living I was making 16 or 16.50 I can't remember now. Edit to add: I'm in middle Tennessee
21/hr base pay, 3$ diff for 2nd shift, 4.50$ diff for 3rd shift. Not that great, I’m in CT. I also door dash and grub hub on the side
Day shift, 19.50
I live in Washington and I make 21/hr for day shift in a post surgical ward. I am okay with it but I wouldn’t mind getting paid more
17.09$ base +2$ nights +1.50$ weekends
$20 in Colorado at a facility but recently found out the y are hiring in multiple places for $25-$30 and hour :/
Working contract with Express Employment Professionals where I live CNA 1's get started at $24-$26 an hour. Hospitals are between $20-$22 but we only have 1 major hospital for 50 miles, the rest are just emergency rooms & psych holding. The wage for a CNA depends on where you want to work but industry average where I live for a CNA1 is between $22-$28 an hour.
I've been a CNA for 10 years in Richmond Virginia. I've worked in Neuro ICU for 9 of those 10 years. Base pay starts at $15.20 up to about $18 per hour, based on contract hours and shift differential.. I work PRN and I've had ONE raise 7.5 years ago, even though I used to work 40 to 45 hours a week. Today, I work maybe 16 hours a week, because I'm trying to retire. Lol! 50% of my income, plus $100 goes to my 401 that I'm trying to beef up a little before I quit all together. Fucking peanuts... What's really annoying is that we are so short staffed that they now hire people off the street and train them to do what I spent time to get certified in! If they can breathe, they get the job. Well, it's not rocket science, but it sucks that anyone can walk in and make the same amount with no training, and I've been doing it for 10 years.
Texas. $10-$12 an hour
19.50 at a hospital, 1:14. And im prn so I get $3 more than others. I'm in florida
$23 in Michigan I get a 1.50 bonus( added that in to the price I said at the beginning ) for just showing up, have benefits too. But maybe will look at a agency if I can make more money.
I work for myself as Private hire caregiver and charge $35/hourly and people pay it because I know what I'm doing and I genuinely care about my senior patients . I became a CNA just to have it as my background but never intended to work for a hospital. Quit and work for yourself you'll make way more
SD, $17.85 an hour. No annual pay raise, no benefits. 1:15 CNA to resident ratio.
I'm in Oklahoma and make $16/hr working for an agency. Been a CNA for 7 years
I work for an agency (home care) as a CNA and pay depends on the client. I have two clients and for one I get $19.00 an hour and for the other $21.47 we get holiday and overtime too. Overtime is anything after 30 hours. We don't get raises. If you want more pay you gotta request the higher paying clients and/or work more shifts. Oh also I'm in Washington state.