Nurses at Stanford Hospital smack in Silicon Valley start at $52-55/hr. They pretty much only recruit from the top schools for nursing - UCLA, UCSF, John Hopkins make up a lot of the recruits. It’s potentially a lot of physical work at times.
Other places in Silicon Valley pay very well as well, though I’m not sure how much entry level start at. My next door neighbor’s daughter went to UCI as a Bio major, didn’t get into medical school, took a year or two to study nursing and now she’s got a great position, probably in the $120-130K range. Let’s see, my kid was in 4th grade when she graduated from HS, so that makes her around 26 now? Not bad. There are some nurses who live out East who fly back and forth here every couple of weeks to work, so it must be pretty lucrative.