Nurse salary in the United States
Median advertised base salary: $123,500 (middle half: $82,500–$147,500), from 795 job ads with a published salary in the last 90 days.
Data as of 2 November 2026Ads posted or seen 4 August 2026 – 2 November 2026Updated daily
$123,500
Median advertised base salary
$82,500–$147,500
Middle half of ads (25th to 75th percentile)
$66,600–$175,000
10th to 90th percentile
795
Job ads with a published salary, from 187 employers
These are the salaries employers advertise in Nurse job ads in the United States, not what everyone in the role is paid.
How the advertised salaries are spread
Share of 795 job ads by annual base salary (the midpoint of each ad's range).
| Percentile | Annual base salary |
|---|---|
| 10th | $66,600 |
| 25th | $82,500 |
| 50th (median) | $123,500 |
| 75th | $147,500 |
| 90th | $175,000 |
The chart as a table
| Annual base salary | Job ads |
|---|---|
| Under $40k | 3 |
| $40k–$60k | 42 |
| $60k–$80k | 118 |
| $80k–$100k | 122 |
| $100k–$120k | 89 |
| $120k–$140k | 189 |
| $140k–$160k | 101 |
| $160k–$180k | 77 |
| $180k–$200k | 35 |
| $200k and above | 19 |
By seniority
From the job title. Levels with fewer than 10 ads are not shown.
| Level | Job ads | Middle half | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid-level or not stated | 770 | $82,500–$147,500 | $123,500 |
| Staff, principal, lead or director | 16 | $96,900–$120,000 | $108,600 |
Remote vs on-site
Remote = the ad or the job board marks the job remote; on-site includes hybrid and ads that don't say.
$137,300
Median in remote ads (234 ads)
$110,200
Median in on-site or hybrid ads (561 ads)
Top-paying companies
Employers with at least 3 ads on this page, by their median advertised salary.
| # | Company | Job ads | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mood Health | 8 | $218,400 |
| 2 | Stanford Medicine Children's Health | 4 | $211,000 |
| 3 | Tribeca Pediatrics | 3 | $205,000 |
| 4 | Amae Health | 5 | $185,000 |
| 5 | MedElite Group | 42 | $175,000 |
| 6 | Access Healthcare Associates | 6 | $170,000 |
| 7 | argenx | 3 | $161,500 |
| 8 | Sollis Health | 6 | $160,200 |
| 9 | Platinum Dermatology Partners - Advanced Practice Providers | 8 | $160,000 |
| 10 | One Medical | 108 | $151,000 |
By metro area
US metro areas with at least 10 ads on this page, highest median first.
| Metro area | Job ads | Median |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco Bay Area | 49 | $180,800 |
| New York City | 25 | $151,000 |
| Los Angeles | 20 | $149,000 |
| Austin | 14 | $141,200 |
| Boston | 10 | $116,900 |
| Denver | 14 | $93,500 |
Jobs paying above the median
Open ads paying more than the median of $123,500, one per employer, highest first. Ranges are annual.
- Mobile Primary Care Nurse Practitioner / Physician Assistant
Access Healthcare Associates · Santa Rosa, CA · $140,000–$200,000
- Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Services For The Underserved, Inc. · Remote (United States) · $160,000–$172,000
- Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP)
Care For the Homeless · Brooklyn, NY, United States · $155,000–$165,000
- Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - Sign-On Bonus Available, 4 days in clinic, 1 day remote
One Medical · Glastonbury, CT · $144,900–$173,300
- Family Nurse Practitioner – Chicagoland
Midwest Express Clinic · Chicago, IL, United States · $150,000–$165,000
- Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Oncology Whittier CA
Starling Oncology · Whittier, California, United States · $120,000–$180,000
- Aesthetic Nurse Practitioner / Physician Assistant - Deluxe Medspa
Annie Aesthetic · Los Angeles, California, United States · $114,400–$166,400
- Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner Provo UT
HEALTHCARE RECRUITMENT COUNSELORS · Provo, UT, United States · $120,000–$150,000
- Neurology Nurse Practitioner (NP)
International SOS Government Medical Services · Fort Walton Beach, FL, United States · $127,296–$141,440
- Nurse Practitioner / Physician Assistant
Salud Family Health · Fort Morgan, CO, United States · $108,100–$141,850
Methodology
What's counted. The pay range published in Nurse job ads in the United States paying in US dollars (USD), from FindAJobAI's index of job ads on employers' career pages and applicant tracking systems (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday and others) and a few public job boards; no LinkedIn or Indeed data. It is the advertised base salary: not total compensation, bonus, commission or equity, and not what people in the role are actually paid. Only full-time ads and ads that don't state a job type count: internships, traineeships, part-time and contract ads are left out.
Period and sample. Ads posted or last seen between 4 August 2026 and 2 November 2026 (90 days): 795 ads from 187 employers. That is every ad in the window with a usable salary, not a sample. Copies of the same ad on several sites count once, and ads in another currency are left out of this page.
How amounts are annualized. Each ad counts once, at the midpoint of its range (or the single figure it gives), as a yearly amount: hourly pay × 2,080 hours, daily × 260, weekly × 52, monthly × 12. A monthly amount stored without its period is recognized by its size for the currency and multiplied by 12; an amount that could be either is dropped.
Outliers. Amounts outside a plausible full-time range are treated as parsing errors and dropped: below $24,000 a year, or above the equivalent of $1,000,000 a year. A range with one implausible end is dropped whole.
Thresholds. A page needs at least 30 ads from 5+ employers, none of them more than a third of the ads. A seniority level, the remote vs on-site split and a metro need 10+ ads; a company needs 3+. Below that, a number is not shown; nothing is estimated or filled in. Seniority comes from the job title: staff, principal, lead, director, head of or VP; senior; junior, entry level or graduate; everything else is mid-level or not stated.
Limitations. Most job ads don't publish pay, and the ones that do lean towards larger companies, technology and places where pay transparency laws apply (several US states require a range in job ads). Our index also leans towards employers that use modern applicant tracking systems. So these figures describe advertised ranges, not every job, and they move a little from day to day.
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