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Nurse educator salary

Open nurse educator jobs post a median of $51.25 an hour, with the middle half paying $45.75–$61: about $106,600 a year full time. Measured from 144 jobs at 58 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$51.25
Median posted /hr
$46–$61
Middle half /hr
$106,600
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$46.90
BLS median /hr
May 2025

The jobs themselves: Nurse educator jobs · A specialty of registered nurse pay

What nurse educators are paid

Each bar counts the open jobs posting an hourly rate in its step of pay (a range at its midpoint). The middle half of employers' rates is in the darker color.

Posted hourly rates of 144 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $18, the highest $129.08.

Posted on open jobs

$45.75–$61/hr

Middle half of 100 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $51.25. 27% of the 525 open nurse educator jobs state an hourly rate. 8 more state an "up to" ceiling, a weekly travel rate, a per-visit fee, or a rate far from the rest (a differential read as pay), left out.

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Nurse educator pay by employer

What each employer posts for nurse educators, the employers with the most jobs stating pay first. An employer with at least 5 such jobs has a page of its own with every range it posts.

EmployerMedian postedPosted rangeJobs stating pay
CommonSpirit Health$56.25$35.38–$104.1916
Emory Healthcare$47.50$47.40–$57.6213
Option Care Health$54.50$36.89–$77.678
Atlantic Health$57.75$41.79–$88.286
Northwestern Medicine$52.75$38.50–$64.805
Endeavor Health$50.25$38.16–$64.885
UPMC$46$34.92–$58.075
Tenet Healthcare$69.75$42.30–$100.424
Providence$65.25$50.14–$91.304
Carle Health$53.25$37.04–$69.674
Riverside Health$47.25$36.50–$56.384
Sutter Health$94$78.30–$127.293
Ascension$52$37.86–$60.903
University Health System - San Antonio$48$35–$603
Sinai Chicago$34$34–$43.563
Salinas Valley Health$84.75$72.45–$95.082
Catholic Health (Long Island)$69.25$65–$73.322
Beth Israel Lahey Health$68.25$38.11–$98.232
Eisenhower Health$67.50$53–$82.082
Kaweah Health$64$51.22–$76.842
UChicago Medicine$56.25$53.50–$592
Hackensack Meridian Health$53.50$51.90–$55.092
United Health Services (New York)$51$40.70–$61.052
Luminis Health$50$40–$602
Trinity Health$48.75$40–$59.202
Mary Washington Healthcare$48$37.56–$59.152
Dialysis Clinic, Inc.$45.25$39–$532
Benedictine$41.50$33.74–$50.142
Gundersen Health System$41.50$32.03–$51.152
Sanford Health$40.75$32–$482
John Muir Health$107.50$86.06–$129.081
Kaiser Permanente$92$82.74–$101.261
Community Memorial Hospital - Ventura$77.25$60.83–$93.561
MemorialCare$70.25$54.59–$85.701
Kittitas Valley Healthcare$62.25$44.70–$79.601
UMass Memorial Health$60.50$39.02–$82.211
PruittHealth$56$44.80–$67.201
AdventHealth$55.75$38.92–$72.401
Denver Health$55.75$43.64–$67.641
ChristianaCare$54.75$42.11–$67.371

Median of each employer's own jobs (a range at its midpoint), and the lowest and highest rate it posts. Jobs stating pay link to the employer's open jobs.

Nurse educator pay by state

States where at least 8 open jobs from 3 employers state an hourly rate, highest median first. Each opens the state's own page, with its towns and employers.

StateMedian postedMiddle halfBLS medianJobs
California$82$72.25–$91.25$67.44 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)21
New York$51$47–$58.25$52.62 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)8
Illinois$50$45.75–$52.75$46.15 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)25

Median and middle half of employers' rates in the state. BLS medians are for the occupation's main SOC code in the state (May 2025).

Nurse educator jobs that state a yearly salary

Some jobs state a salary for the year instead of an hourly rate. They are measured on their own here, never converted.

96 open jobs from 43 employers state a yearly salary: a median of $108,100, the middle half $99,200 to $130,100, from $56,695 to $276,952 posted.

Best-paid open nurse educator jobs

The open jobs posting the highest hourly rates tonight, at most two from one employer.

Every open job: Nurse educator jobs

What BLS measures

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys what people employed in the occupation earn, at every level of experience. A posting advertises what a new hire is offered, so the two measure different things.

Hourly wages, BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, national. Each figure opens its BLS page.
BLS occupation10th pct25th pctMedian75th pct90th pctEmployed
Registered Nurses (29-1141)$33.14 (source: BLS OEWS, Registered Nurses, opens in a new tab)$38.62 (source: BLS OEWS, Registered Nurses, opens in a new tab)$46.90 (source: BLS OEWS, Registered Nurses, opens in a new tab)$54.02 (source: BLS OEWS, Registered Nurses, opens in a new tab)$66.09 (source: BLS OEWS, Registered Nurses, opens in a new tab)3,379,720 (source: BLS OEWS, Registered Nurses, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($51.25) is $4.35 above the BLS median ($46.90 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Registered Nurses, opens in a new tab)). Posted ranges run from a new hire's rate to an experienced one's, and their midpoint is counted here.

Nurse educator salary: common questions

How much does a nurse educator make an hour?

Open nurse educator jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $51.25, with the middle half between $45.75–$61 (144 jobs from 58 employers, each employer's advertised range counted once). Postings advertise a base rate, usually before shift differentials and bonuses. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics measured a median of $46.90/hr ($97,550 a year) for registered nurses in May 2025.

How much does a nurse educator make a year?

At the posted median of $51.25 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $106,600, and the middle half to $95,200 to $126,900. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states. 96 open jobs state a yearly salary instead, a median of $108,100.

Which states pay nurse educators the most?

By the median hourly rate open jobs post: California ($82), New York ($51) and Illinois ($50). The lowest: Illinois ($50), New York ($51) and California ($82). Each state's page breaks its pay down by town and employer.

Which employers pay nurse educators the most?

Among employers stating a rate on at least 5 open jobs: Atlantic Health ($57.75), CommonSpirit Health ($56.25) and Option Care Health ($54.50). The employer table lists the 40 employers with the most jobs stating pay.

Where do these figures come from?

From the pay CareJobs.Now's open jobs state, read every night from each employer's own job board: 144 of 525 open nurse educator jobs (27%) state an hourly rate. No pay is estimated for a job that states none, "up to" ceilings and weekly travel rates are left out, and each employer's advertised range counts once in the median, so no single employer sets it.

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Sources and method

Only pay a job states is used: a plain hourly or yearly figure or range in US dollars, read from the job's own posting. A range counts at its midpoint. In the median and the middle half each employer's advertised range counts once, so an employer posting one range in many towns does not set the figure; an employer's own figures count its jobs one by one. "Up to" ceilings, weekly travel rates and rates under a third or over three times the occupation's median are left out. The yearly estimate is the hourly rate times 2,080 hours (40 a week). A job counts under its occupation and every occupation above it, and under every state it is open in. A page exists while at least 8 jobs from 3 employers state a rate. BLS figures are as published.
  1. CareJobs.Now job board: the pay open jobs state, read nightly from each employer's own careers site, published October 24, 2026
  2. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: Registered Nurses (SOC 29-1141), published May 15, 2026
  3. BLS OEWS May 2025: Registered Nurses by state, published May 15, 2026
  4. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Registered Nurses (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

CareJobs.Now. (2026). Nurse educator salary. Data as of October 24, 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/nurse-educator

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