New York
Governor Kathy Hochul on Friday announced a series of salary increases for nursing positions within New York State agencies to help improve recruitment and retention among the state’s health care workforce. The increases, which account for the growing complexity of nursing tasks and high credentialing requirements for nurses, will bring the starting salary of registered nurses working the day shift to nearly $90,000 in the upstate and $108,000 in the state. south of the state when combined with wage differentials. The salary increases will benefit approximately 6,500 New York State employees located in 15 state agencies.
“After more than two years on the front lines of the battle against COVID-19, New York’s nurses deserve more than our gratitude – they deserve fair and competitive pay,” Governor Hochul said.
“These pay increases reflect our state’s commitment to supporting our healthcare workers and will help us retain and recruit the next generation of nurses to keep New Yorkers safe,” she said.
New York State upgraded select nursing degrees, and the upgrades represented an average salary increase of 4.5 percent per degree. Registered nurse titles will now also be hired at the midpoint of the salary range. In addition, registered nurse titles will receive updated shift pay to include a 7 percent increase in base pay for the evening shift (4:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m.) and a 10 percent increase in base pay basis for the night shift (12:00 am to 8:00 am).
These salary increases come on top of larger geographic pay differences for registered and licensed practical nurse titles enacted earlier this year. In July, registered nurse positions located in Mid-Hudson and downstate received a geographic pay differential of $35,000, a 94 percent increase from the previous differential of $18,000.
Registered nurse positions located in the rest of the state also received a geographic pay differential of $20,000, a 67 percent increase from the previous pay differential of $12,000. In May, licensed practical nursing positions located in Mid-Hudson and downstate received a geographic pay differential of $13,000, a 550 percent increase from the previous differential of $2,000, and positions located in the rest of the state received a geographic pay differential of $4,000, an increase of 100 percent from the previous differential of $2,000.
Posted on October 13, 2022
