What is a nurse annual salary?

Salaries for nurses anywhere in the USA are payed by the hour not on a per year basis. Starting salaries for RN's are between $19 to $24 dollars per hour depending on where you work (hospital, nursing home, doctors office, home care, ect.) and what you specialty is. Depending on the policy of your employer overtime may be counted as time and a half for anything over 40hours/week. Hospitals and critical care pays the most. Each year a nurse has been working a pay increase of about one dollar per hour is standard. You may ask for a raise after six months of being on the job.