For those that have never looked it up, the median RN salary in the US is about $100k a year. Germany and the UK are more like $60k. It’s funny, because it’s a

For those that have never looked it up, the median RN salary in the US is about $100k a year. Germany and the UK are more like $60k. It’s funny, because it’s a career that feels both overpaid and underpaid to me. I went to a college where almost half of the students were going for nursing - and you certainly don’t need to be especially intelligent. At least to an outsider, some nursing fields seem damned easy. The nurse that sees me before my GP? Pretty easy job. Other specialties? Like the nurses that needed to clean up my wife after she massively bled during/after a c-section and they had to give her medications that also caused all sorts of other fluids to intermingle with the blood? Or the nurses that had to stand there for 10 minutes squeezing our infant daughter’s heel in the NICU to try to get enough blood out while she screamed as hard as a little baby can? $100k doesn’t seem like enough. Odd occupation. For $60k I’d rather work at Costco, that’s for certain.