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| Nurse
Salaries
| Nurse
Practitioner Salaries
|
Nationwide
Nurse Salaries
and
Employment Statistics
Below
are the approximate number of
jobs held nationally by
healthcare
profession:
Surveys suggest that 86% of
Nurses are women.
|
Job Title |
Number
of Jobs |
|
Registered Nurses |
2,184,000 |
|
Physicians (M.D. &
D.O.) |
688,000 |
|
Physician Assistants |
104,000 |
|
Pharmacists |
238,000 |
Nurses by Population
Information about the top 20
most populated communities for
registered nurses:
|
RANK |
|
METRO
AREA
|
#EMPLOYED
|
TOTAL
POPULATION |
|
1
|
|
New
York, NY
|
69,500
|
7,323,000
|
|
2
|
|
LA
to Long Beach, CA
|
53,000
|
5,500,000
|
|
3
|
|
Chicago,
IL
|
51,000
|
2,784,000
|
|
4
|
|
Philadelphia,
PA-NJ
|
49,000
|
1,586,000
|
|
5
|
|
Boston,
MA
|
33,000
|
574,000
|
|
6
|
|
Detroit,
MI
|
33,000
|
1,016,000
|
|
7
|
|
Washington
DC, MD-VA
|
32,000
|
610,000
|
|
8
|
|
Nassau-Suffolk,
NY
|
25,000
|
1,322,000
|
|
9
|
|
Minneapolis,
MN
|
24,000
|
369,000
|
|
10
|
|
Baltimore,
MD
|
23,000
|
736,000
|
|
11
|
|
Pittsburgh,
PA
|
23,000
|
370,000
|
|
12
|
|
Houston,
TX
|
22,000
|
1,631,000
|
|
13
|
|
St.
Louis, MO-KS
|
22,000
|
397,000
|
|
14
|
|
Atlanta,
GA
|
21,000
|
394,000
|
|
15
|
|
Cleveland,
OH
|
17,500
|
560,000
|
|
16
|
|
Anaheim-Santa
Ana, CA
|
17,000
|
600,000
|
|
17
|
|
San
Diego, CA
|
17,000
|
1,111,000
|
|
18
|
|
Phoenix,
AZ
|
17,000
|
984,000
|
|
19
|
|
Tampa
- St. Pete, FL
|
17,000
|
600,000
|
|
20
|
|
Seattle,
WA
|
17,000
|
516,000
|
Source:
Allied
Physicians, Los
Angeles Times, RN Magazine and
Rand McNally
Registered Nurse Salaries
Staff RNs working in the
United States average a median
base salary of $41,642.
Half of all US RN's are
expected to earn between
$38,792 and $44,869.
Nearly
67% of nurses are employed in
hospital inpatient and
outpatient settings.
32%
of all nurses are employed in medical
offices and clinics, home
healthcare agencies, nursing
homes,
temporary help agencies,
academia, and government
agencies.
|
Nurse
|
3+
Years
|
Starting
Base |
|
|
|
|
|
RN
|
$47,110
|
$39,000 |
|
Staff
RN
|
$44,200 |
$37,000
|
|
Master
Level
|
$59,600 |
$49,700
|
Average
Annual Income By Hospital
Setting
|
|
|
|
|
Setting |
Income |
|
|
National
Average |
$45,500 |
|
|
Acute
Care |
$45,000 |
|
|
Ambulatory
Care Center/HMO |
$44,000 |
|
Case
Management |
$48,000 |
|
|
Community/
Home Health |
$44,600 |
|
|
Health
Insurance Co/School |
$42,000 |
|
Dietician |
$37,000 |
|
LPN |
$33,500 |
|
Nurse
Manager |
$65,000 |
|
|
Extended
Care/ Psych |
$38,500 |
|
Physical
Therapist |
$55,000 |
|
|
Physician's
Office |
$36,500 |
|
Speech
Pathology |
$44,000 |
|
Operating
Room |
$45,000 |
Average
Hourly Pay By Specialty
|
|
|
|
|
Specialty |
Average
Hourly Pay |
|
|
Critical
Care |
$19.45 |
|
|
OR |
$19.75 |
|
|
Medicine/
Surgery |
$18.80 |
|
|
Emergency |
$18.75 |
Average
Hourly Pay By Hospital Bed
Size
|
|
|
|
|
Bed
Size |
Average
Hourly Pay |
|
|
500
Beds+ |
$21.00 |
|
|
300-499
Beds |
$19.85 |
|
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100-299
Beds |
$19.70 |
|
|
<
100 Beds |
$17.65 |
Sources:
Allied
Physicians, Inc.
Los Angeles Times
RN Magazine
Rand McNally
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Nurse
Practitioner Salary Surveys
|
US
National Averages |
|
|
|
3+
Years Experience
|
$62,000
|
|
|
1st
Year
|
$57,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Locality
|
|
|
|
Urban
|
$63,000
|
|
|
Suburban
|
$64,000
|
|
|
Rural
|
$60,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Degree
Separations
|
|
|
|
PhD,
Administration
Director
|
$72,000
|
|
|
Master's
|
$60,000
|
|
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Bachelor's
|
$45,500
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Part-time
hourly rate:
|
$35.10
|
Source:
Allied
Physicians,
Inc.
Updated
January 2004
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