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We Spent $61,760 Building an App This Year. Here's Every Dollar.

We built an app for nurses this year. It cost us $61,760. We made $1,042 back. Here's the full breakdown—every expense, every mistake, and what we'd do differently.

Jason Nunez

Nursing & Finance Statistics

$179,955 Staff Nurse Pay vs. Your $80k Burnout Salary — How Many Years Until You Quit the Bedside?

Dec 7, 2025

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$179,955 Staff Nurse Pay vs. Your $80k Burnout Salary — How Many Years Until You Quit the Bedside?

How a $40-an-hour wage gap between Kaiser NorCal and Kaiser SoCal turns the same nursing job into either a lifetime of stress or a clear path to $15,000 months and early retirement.

Jason Nunez

Map My Pay

Get Every Nursing Tool We Built... Completely Free This Month

Nov 28, 2025

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Get Every Nursing Tool We Built... Completely Free This Month

The tools I've built to stop nurses from guessing about pay, cost of living, and career moves are now open to everyone — from anywhere in the world — for a full month.

Jason Nunez

Life

We’ve Been Everywhere This Year... But Now It’s Time to Hunker Down

Oct 26, 2025

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We’ve Been Everywhere This Year... But Now It’s Time to Hunker Down

As nurses, we worked under 20 hours a week, earned over $200K, and probably spent too much this year. Was it worth it?

Jason Nunez

Opinion

$85 an Hour in NorCal, $53 in SoCal — The Kaiser Nurse Strike Explained

Oct 19, 2025

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$85 an Hour in NorCal, $53 in SoCal — The Kaiser Nurse Strike Explained

The Kaiser nurse strike highlights how cost of living, short staffing, and union strength are shaping what it really means to work as a nurse in California.

Jason Nunez

Nursing & Finance Statistics

Be the Highest-Paid Nurse in the World (2025 Update)

Oct 5, 2025

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Be the Highest-Paid Nurse in the World (2025 Update)

See the top-paying hospitals in California and Oregon, the new 2025 pay rates, and how our Tax Sheet calculates exactly what nurses take home each month.

Jason Nunez

Income

How We’ll Earn $274K As Nurses While Working Less Than 35 Hours

Sep 28, 2025

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How We’ll Earn $274K As Nurses While Working Less Than 35 Hours

Nine months in, less than 19 hours per week each, hourly rates over $150, and a projected $274K gross. But behind those paychecks is a hidden tactic — cutting per diem hours to erode seniority and push nurses into permanent roles.

Jason Nunez

Inside the $60,530 Price Tag of a Nurse Startup

Sep 21, 2025

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Inside the $60,530 Price Tag of a Nurse Startup

Nine months, nearly fifty grand spent, and a lifetime total topping $60K—this is the unfiltered breakdown of what it costs nurses to build Map My Pay

Jason Nunez

Nursing & Finance Statistics

Free Stanford Pay Spreadsheet for Nurses

Sep 14, 2025

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Free Stanford Pay Spreadsheet for Nurses

Per diem, base pay, differentials—everything in one sheet

Jason Nunez

Wealth

Sep 7, 2025

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Why OT is keeping nurses broke

What Our Paystubs Reveal About Using OT the Right Way

Jason Nunez

Sep 4, 2025

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Jason Nunez

Nursing & Finance Statistics

Aug 31, 2025

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Free Kaiser Pay Spreadsheet for Nurses

Per diem, base pay, differentials—everything in one sheet

Jason Nunez

We Spent $61,760 Building an App This Year. Here's Every Dollar.

$179,955 Staff Nurse Pay vs. Your $80k Burnout Salary — How Many Years Until You Quit the Bedside?

Get Every Nursing Tool We Built... Completely Free This Month

We’ve Been Everywhere This Year... But Now It’s Time to Hunker Down

$85 an Hour in NorCal, $53 in SoCal — The Kaiser Nurse Strike Explained

Be the Highest-Paid Nurse in the World (2025 Update)

How We’ll Earn $274K As Nurses While Working Less Than 35 Hours

Inside the $60,530 Price Tag of a Nurse Startup

Free Stanford Pay Spreadsheet for Nurses

Why OT is keeping nurses broke

Join Me On YouTube Live At 1PM PDT Today!

Free Kaiser Pay Spreadsheet for Nurses

Nurses to Riches

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