Billings Clinic
Trauma Center · Billings, MT
- 22
- open roles, live count
- $67k–$127k/yr
- posted pay across 20 roles
- 336
- beds
On the floor
What the day-to-day looks like
- Setting
- Trauma Center
- Recognition
- Magnet®
- Shifts hiring now
- Rotating 9 · Days 8
Benefits
Sign-on bonus (up to $20,000 referenced), relocation (up to $7,500), tuition loan repayment, retirement, pension plan, PTO, health/dental/vision, life insurance, long- and short-term disability.
What stands out
New graduates
You join as a full-time RN in a 12-month Nurse Residency with unit preceptors, residency specialists, and three cohort starts a year.
As of 2025Source 1: billingsclinic.comSource 2: billingsclinic.com
Moving here
Listings have shown a sign-on bonus up to $20,000 and relocation support up to $7,500 when you move to Billings.
Experienced nurses
You practice in Montana’s first Magnet hospital—a 336-bed Level I Trauma Center with Comprehensive Stroke and Chest Pain credentials.
As of 2025Source 1: billingsclinic.comSource 2: billingsclinic.comSource 3: glassdoor.com
Experienced nurses
Shared governance and educational pathways are part of the nursing practice model the CNO describes.
As of 2025Source: billingsclinic.com
More about working here
New graduates
Tuition loan repayment appears among employer benefits, alongside retirement, pension, and PTO.
As of 2025Source: glassdoor.com
Moving here
You land in a not-for-profit system of 4,500+ employees serving Montana, Wyoming, and the western Dakotas from one Billings campus.
As of 2025Source: glassdoor.com
Experienced nurses
The emergency center has a planned $6M expansion if ED growth is part of what you want next.
Working conditions
- Pay and benefits
- $20,000 sign-on bonus listed in Billings Clinic benefits (RRT posting; also referenced for RN hiring event)
- Pay and benefits
- Up to $7,500 relocation bonus (Billings Clinic benefits list on RRT relocate posting)
As of 2025Source: glassdoor.com
- Pay and benefits
- Tuition loan repayment listed among Billings Clinic benefits
As of 2025Source: glassdoor.com
Starting out and growing here
- Nurse residency
- Billings Clinic Nurse Residency Program · 3 cohorts per year · Applications: Year-round pending staff needs; spring, summer, fall cohort starts. Example windows: Dec 2024 grads Aug 26–Sep 20 2024; May 2025 grads Jan 7–31 2025 (interviews Feb 2025); Aug 2025 grads May 19–30 2025; Dec 2025 grads opens Sep 8 2025.
As of 2025Source 1: billingsclinic.comSource 2: billingsclinic.com
- Preceptors and orientation
- Nurse residents guided by unit preceptors, Nursing Professional Development Practitioners, unit management, and Nurse Residency Specialists
As of 2025Source: billingsclinic.com
- Career development
- Nursing environment fosters leadership and educational pathways; shared governance and professional practice model cited by CNO
As of 2025Source: billingsclinic.com
The city
Living in Billings, MT
Billings, Montana's largest city, sits along the Yellowstone River beneath the dramatic Rimrocks—sandstone cliffs that rim the city's north edge. A regional medical hub for the Northern Plains, it blends outdoor access, frontier heritage, and urban conveniences that appeal to RNs seeking big-sky living without sacrificing professional opportunity.
Browse roles in Billings
- Metro price level · Billings area
- 6% below the national average
- BEA index 93.5 (100 = national)
- Median gross rent
- $1,138/mo
- rent and tenant-paid utilities
- Median household income
- $73,712/yr
- all local households, not nurse pay
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 metro Regional Price Parities · Census ACS 2024
Who they are
You would be walking into a 336-bed Level I Trauma Center that is also Montana’s first Magnet-designated hospital and a four-time Magnet designee.
- Trauma Center · Billings
- Magnet® recognized
- Hiring rotating & days
- Sign-on bonus · 3 roles
More about Billings Clinic
Billings Clinic is a not-for-profit, physician-led system with more than 4,500 employees and roughly 600 providers across 80+ specialties, serving Montana, Wyoming, and the western Dakotas from Billings. If you are new to practice, the Billings Clinic Nurse Residency is a 12-month path with three cohort starts a year. You work as a full-time RN guided by unit preceptors, Nursing Professional Development Practitioners, and Nurse Residency Specialists, with apply windows that open ahead of spring, summer, and fall starts. Experienced nurses step into a setting that holds DNV Comprehensive Stroke Center certification, ACC Chest Pain Center accreditation, a Leapfrog A Safety Grade, and a planned $6M emergency center expansion. Relocation postings have listed sign-on support up to $20,000 and relocation up to $7,500, with tuition loan repayment, retirement, pension, and PTO among the benefits called out. Glassdoor averages about 3.3/5 across roughly 206 reviews, so the culture reads mixed on paper even as long-tenured voices and active hiring for nurses show up in local conversation.
Nursing environment built around shared governance and a professional practice model, with leadership and educational pathways fostered for nurses (per CNO).
Working here
Culture and working life
Themes from public reviews
Summaries of published reviews, with the original sources.
- Overall Glassdoor rating middling
- About 206 reviews average 3.3/5; roughly half would recommend; compensation ~3.2 and senior management ~2.8 lag other categories.
As of 2025Source: glassdoor.com
- Billings MT location reviews slightly warmer on recommend rate
- Billings-location subset (~121 reviews) also 3.3 overall with ~52% recommend and ~71% CEO approval; senior management still ~2.8.
As of 2025Source: glassdoor.com
- Long-tenured employee endorsement
- A self-described 30+ year employee on Reddit said they would recommend it and cited recent internal survey results as favorable.
As of 2025Source: reddit.com
More review themes
- Hiring need for nurses
- A Billings Clinic nurse on Reddit urged a new grad to move, saying nurses are badly needed while advising preparation.
As of 2025Source: reddit.com
What to weigh
Glassdoor sits around 3.3/5 across roughly 206 reviews, with senior management near 2.8 and only about half of reviewers saying they would recommend the employer.
The reality check
Before you decide
Quick facts
- Relationship
- Direct employer
- Roles last seen active
- Sep 10, 2026
- Website
- billingsclinic.com ↗
Weighing a first job here?
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A closer look at the units
Open counts come from the live roles below. Source links show where unit details were reported.
- PACUDays 2 · Rotating 14 open
- StepdownRotating 22 open
- ERRotating 11 open
- ICURotating 11 open
- LDRP1 open
- Med-SurgRotating 11 open
Hospital / Trauma
Billings Clinic described as integrated multi-specialty group with a 336-bed hospital and Level I Trauma Center.
Source location unconfirmedSource: glassdoor.com
LDRP / I/P Obstetrics
Employer posting for I/P Obstetrics - LDRP RN Manager indicates inpatient obstetrics/LDRP nursing leadership role.
Source location unconfirmedSource: billingsclinic.com
Emergency Department
Plans reported for a $6M expansion of the emergency center.
Source location unconfirmedSource: kulr8.com
Stroke / Chest Pain
Facility holds DNV Comprehensive Stroke Center certification and Chest Pain Center accreditation.
Source location unconfirmedSource: billingsclinic.com
Open roles
Current openings at Billings Clinic
Refreshed throughout the day.
RN Hospital - Inpatient Surgical (0.9 FTE, Day Shift)
$50/hr
Billings ClinicBillings, MT · Posted 2 days ago
- Magnet-designated
- RN
- Day shift
- Magnet-designated
- RN
- Rotating shift
- ADN accepted
- Magnet-designated
- RN
- Rotating shift
- Compact license OK
- Magnet-designated
- RN
- Day shift
- Compact license OK
- Magnet-designated
- RN
- Day shift
- Compact license OK
- Magnet-designated
- RN
- Rotating shift
- Compact license OK
- Magnet-designated
- RN
- Rotating shift
- RN
- Rotating shift
- ADN accepted
- RN
- Day shift
- Per diem
- RN
- Day shift
- ADN accepted
RN, Hospital - Intermediate Care Unit (part-time)
$39/hr
Billings ClinicBillings, MT · Posted 2 weeks ago
- Magnet-designated
- RN
- Rotating shift
- Compact license OK
- Magnet-designated
- RN
- Rotating shift
- ADN accepted
- Magnet-designated
- RN
- Per diem
- Magnet-designated
- RN
- ADN accepted
- Tuition reimbursement
- Magnet-designated
- RN
- Day shift
- Agency contract
- Magnet-designated
- RN
- Rotating shift
- Compact license OK
- RN
- Day shift
- ADN accepted
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