I always thought that surgeons, nurses, basically people involved in the healthcare field are on salaried wages, not hourly. I guess I'm mistaken.

 

i think they are, but nurses are in such high demand now that it's not like hospitals can work nurses 80 hour weeks, pay them for 40, and expect them to stay.

 

I'm not sure how nurses and doctors are typically paid, but I'd be weary to read too much into that particular list. Every one of those employers is a state mental hospital or correctional facility, and I've got believe they might have a rather specialized system of compensation in place. Problems of retention could easily skew the way the nurses are kept and paid in such institutions.

 

No, nurses are typically hourly employees, not salaried. And they do still get time-and-a-half or even double-time pay for overtime, despite the recent change in federal overtime law that exempts them from overtime pay. It's supply and demand.

Those nurse incomes are not that out of the ordinary if you assume they are either a nurse practitioner or an RN manager.

Andrew

 

A lot of doctors these days are salaried actually.

 

That graph is inaccurate, the white bars should be smaller?

I'm about to be a californian policeman! So much money!

 

Plus you get to go on high-speed chases every other day.

 

All of the doctors I have (and I have a lot) are hourly (technically).

They work for themselves and bill separately. They are not paid by the hospital as far as I know.

 

well they do work in a prison, I don't have personal experience, but I think it is not the best place to work at...