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I think they go into nursing because the income is better than programming.

My cousin's wife just became a nurse. 2 years of schooling, and her first job started her off at $80K a year. And since she doesn't work at a hospital, that's $80K for regular hours.

And she is just a regular nurse fresh out of school.



extrapolating from a single data point is a bad idea. the national average for 2009 is in the ballpark of $45k


That statistic gets dragged down by nurses who only have associates degrees. Nurses with a B.S. earn over $60k on average.


It's possible to get 80k out of school as a computer scientist and I also know nurses that have a 4 year degree before they started nursing school so...


If people go into nursing because the perception is that it pays so well, these viewpoints are not contradictory.


well this is NYC, $80K here is like $45K in Kentucky




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