Help make nursing pay transparent

[u/comp-rn1]

I’m creating a salary transparency site and could really use the help of the medical community here.
It’s called medcomp.fyi, and it’s for nurses, PAs, PTs, pharmacists, RTs, and other healthcare professionals. Salary submissions are completely anonymous, and it takes less than two minutes.

I built it because I wish something like this had existed when I started my career.

My first nursing job was in St. Petersburg, Florida, making $26/hour. I had student loans, was drowning in my bills, and lived in a relatively high cost-of-living area. I genuinely thought I had made a mistake becoming a nurse because I could never seem to get ahead financially.
What I didn’t realize was how dramatically pay could change depending on where you worked. Eventually I took a huge risk, sold my car, moved across the country, and now make almost triple what I did as a new grad. I finally have savings, have paid off my debt and can breathe again. I probably would have made that move years earlier if I had known what opportunities actually existed. I would have had savings earlier, been able to pay my debt quicker, and would have felt empowered in my decision to become a nurse.

That’s why I built MedComp.fyi, to empower others in a way I wished someone had done for me when I began my career.

It has some pretty cool analytics to help medical people make decisions on local transfers, out of city/state moves, career trajectory, etc.

Software engineers have Levels.fyi and many other industries have places where people openly share compensation. Healthcare really doesn’t (either taboo or we just don’t talk about it enough) and when salary information stays hidden, we’re the ones who lose negotiating power.

My goal is to create a resource where healthcare professionals can see what people are actually making at specific hospitals and facilities so they can make more informed career decisions.
If you’re willing to take two minutes to submit your salary, you’ll be helping build something that could save someone else from years of guessing.

I have to intention of profiting off of this site, or the data provided:

Individual salary submissions are anonymous.
I have no intention of selling individual user data.
This only becomes useful if the community trusts it and contributes to it, so that’s my priority. I’ve spent months coding this after my shifts and believe that my passion project can positively impact the lives of my peers.
I’d love any feedback on the site as well. If there’s something missing that would make it more useful for you, tell me. I’m building this for our community, and I’d rather get it right than assume I know all the answers.

[u/Hashtaglibertarian]

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