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What psychiatric nurses make
Typical
$90,000
New grad
$62,000
Top of the grid
$113,000
Job Bank's national median is $43.27 an hour, about $90,000 a year full time, with a range of $30 to $54. Job Bank pools psychiatric nurses with registered nurses in one occupation code, but in the four western provinces both are paid on the same union grid, so the numbers fit.