“A $1.07 raise means the the ability to make more payments on student loans, being able to take care of our families, and will allow us to get gifts for children and grandchildren during the holidays.”
-Mariah Thurston, Suzanne Palese, and Lisa Nelson, CNAs at Prestige Creswell
Nursing Home workers in our union were successful in lobbying the legislature in Salem and are going to be seeing our biggest raise yet this year. We’ve come out in big numbers in 2013, 2014, and in 2015. We advocated for quality care and better funding for the programs that help our residents, and our work at the Capitol paid off yet again.
This year’s wage increase will be $1.07 per hour effective October 1, 2015.
Since 2013, we’ve seen the following increases:
- $0.70/hr in October 2013 and a new statewide wage scale
- $0.35/hr step increases in October 2014
- $0.21/hr increase to the statewide wage scale in October 2014
That makes a total of $2.33 per hour in 2 years!
2015 Prestige Wage Scale
| Years service | Activ- ities |
Cent. Supply | CMA | CNA | Cook | Dining Serv. Aide |
| 0 | $11.52 | $13.70 | $15.02 | $13.23 | $12.26 | $11.20 |
| 1 | $11.87 | $14.05 | $15.37 | $13.58 | $12.61 | $11.55 |
| 2 | $12.22 | $14.40 | $15.72 | $13.93 | $12.96 | $11.90 |
| 3 | $12.57 | $14.75 | $16.07 | $14.28 | $13.31 | $12.25 |
| 4 | $12.92 | $15.10 | $16.42 | $14.63 | $13.66 | $12.60 |
| 5 | $13.27 | $15.45 | $16.77 | $14.98 | $14.01 | $12.95 |
| 6 | $13.62 | $15.80 | $17.12 | $15.33 | $14.36 | $13.30 |
| 7 | $13.97 | $16.15 | $17.47 | $15.68 | $14.71 | $13.65 |
| 8 | $14.32 | $16.50 | $17.82 | $16.03 | $15.06 | $14.00 |
| 9 | $14.67 | $16.85 | $18.17 | $16.38 | $15.41 | $14.35 |
| 10 | $15.02 | $17.20 | $18.52 | $16.73 | $15.76 | $14.70 |
| Years of service | Housekeeping | Laundry | Maintenance | MHU Aide | NA | Restorative Aide |
| 0 | $11.20 | $11.19 | $12.39 | $15.22 | $12.93 | $13.87 |
| 1 | $11.55 | $11.54 | $12.74 | $15.57 | $12.93 | $14.22 |
| 2 | $11.90 | $11.89 | $13.09 | $15.92 | $12.93 | $14.57 |
| 3 | $12.25 | $12.24 | $13.44 | $16.27 | $12.93 | $14.92 |
| 4 | $12.60 | $12.59 | $13.79 | $16.62 | $12.93 | $15.27 |
| 5 | $12.95 | $12.94 | $14.14 | $16.97 | $12.93 | $15.62 |
| 6 | $13.30 | $13.29 | $14.49 | $17.32 | $12.93 | $15.97 |
| 7 | $13.65 | $13.64 | $14.84 | $17.67 | $12.93 | $16.32 |
| 8 | $14.00 | $13.99 | $15.19 | $18.02 | $12.93 | $16.67 |
| 9 | $14.35 | $14.34 | $15.54 | $18.37 | $12.93 | $17.02 |
| 10 | $14.70 | $14.69 | $15.89 | $18.72 | $12.93 | $17.37 |