38, this is her second career. Her starting salary for a 3 shift
week
is 72K.

Bull****! My wife had to reach management level when she was
working in a hospital before she hit those kinds of numbers. Don't
bother telling us your wife works at such and such or that she
negotiated that number or she has special talents or any other pile of
crap. Your story is crap and your busted.
Nurses are treated like teachers in this country. Employers know
that they are dedicated type people and they take advantage of that
fact by underpaying them and screwing them on retirement plans,
vacation time etc. My wife got out and is now on the road/working out
of a home office for an insurance company dealing with lawyers, doctors
and deadbeats like you who want to collect workmans comp.