RN contract pay tables from three Bay Area hospitals: Kaiser, UCSF and Sutter Alta Bates. Plus real California pay submissions from nurses. Nothing estimated here.
Hourly staff RN rates from each hospital's contract (Staff Nurse II scale). Hover a hospital to open its full pay table.
These are the contracts my own contacts could get me as a Bay Area nurse. I don't estimate pay for a hospital I don't have a contract for. Got one? Please share it. I won't share who sent it. See every contract I have.
Pick your shift, hours and step. We compare every hospital we have a contract for. Staff RN rates, straight pay with no overtime, gross before taxes.
A step isn't the same number of years at every hospital. Each column shows the experience that hospital lists for that step.
Every California salary submission, on the map. Hover for a summary and click to see the submissions behind it. Squares are hospitals with contract data.
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Learn more →Staff RN rates: the hourly rate on each contract's standard staff nurse scale (Staff Nurse II at Kaiser and Alta Bates, Nurse, Clinical II at UCSF). Per diem rates are higher and are on our per diem jobs page.
Compare the pay table above step by step, or switch it to years where a contract lists experience. A step isn't the same number of years at every hospital, so check each contract's rules for moving up. Evening and night differentials are shown separately, and some are percentages while Alta Bates uses flat dollars.
Each hospital's evening and night differential is listed in the pay table, and the calculator adds it to the rate for the step you pick.
They're the contracts we've been able to get so far. We add a hospital when we have its real pay scale, and we don't estimate the rest.
Hospital rates come from the contract pay scales, linked above the table. Everything else comes from anonymous salary submissions by California nurses, reviewed before they're published. Rent comes from Zillow Research.
NursePay is built from what nurses choose to share. A city with one submission is one nurse's reported pay, so treat it as a single data point. Adding yours makes the map more useful for the next nurse.
No names. No logins. It takes about two minutes and fills in the map for the next nurse.