Skip to content

Nurses

Nurse navigator salary

Open nurse navigator jobs post a median of $51.25 an hour, with the middle half paying $45.25–$68.75: about $106,600 a year full time. Measured from 100 jobs at 44 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$51.25
Median posted /hr
$45–$69
Middle half /hr
$106,600
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$46.90
BLS median /hr
May 2025

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

What nurse navigators 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 100 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $26.25, the highest $133.15.

Posted on open jobs

$45.25–$68.75/hr

Middle half of 65 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $51.25. 25% of the 407 open nurse navigator jobs state an hourly rate.

Nurse navigator alerts

Nurse navigator: new openings every week

Every week we gather the newest Nurse navigator openings from the hospitals, clinics and care employers we follow, straight from their careers sites. Free, stop anytime.

Only job openings in your inbox. Leave anytime with one click.

Nurse navigator pay by employer

What each employer posts for nurse navigators, 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$48.75$30.91–$90.047
Sutter Health$111.50$78.73–$133.156
Monument Health$36$32–$406
Providence$64$40.37–$88.925
Advocate Health$51.50$38.20–$61.655
Sanford Health$42.50$34–$515
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute$76.75$44.14–$109.514
OSF HealthCare$44.25$34.25–$52.164
Northwestern Medicine$52.75$40.50–$64.803
Carle Health$46$35.07–$57.073
Stanford Health Care$93.50$79.21–$108.122
Southcoast Health System$82.50$82.482
Cedars-Sinai$75.75$56.22–$96.262
Inova$60$43.75–$76.252
Kaiser Permanente$57.75$50.45–$64.812
Allina Health$54.25$44.64–$64.222
Endeavor Health$53.25$41.86–$64.882
HealthPartners$52$40.93–$63.232
Ascension$48.75$37.09–$60.902
Emory Healthcare$47.50$47.402
Trinity Health$47$37.60–$56.402
Mercyhealth$45.75$33.12–$60.142
Moffitt Cancer Center$45.25$35.91–$54.552
UPMC$45$34.92–$54.162
AdventHealth$44$31.85–$58.042
Holyoke Medical Center$43$33.10–$52.712
American Oncology Network$42.75$34.62–$50.702
Hematology Oncology$39$33–$452
UCSF Health$107.25$93.47–$121.111
Catholic Health (Long Island)$73.75$73.661
Emanate Health$73.25$57.36–$88.901
Valley Children's Healthcare$73$60.15–$85.811
Beth Israel Lahey Health$70.25$39.14–$101.141
Mount Sinai Health System$70$701
South Shore Health$57.75$38.20–$77.391
Confluence Health$50.50$39.33–$61.571
Uropartners$48.50$44–$531
UVA Health$46.25$37.99–$54.631
Rochester Regional Health$46$38.82–$53.031
Sarah Bush Lincoln$45.25$35.43–$54.921

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 navigator 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$92$73–$101$67.44 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)14
Massachusetts$70.25$57.75–$76.75$50.27 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)10
Illinois$46$43.25–$51$46.15 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)17

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 navigator 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.

64 open jobs from 27 employers state a yearly salary: a median of $96,900, the middle half $94,000 to $109,800, from $60,200 to $175,000 posted.

Best-paid open nurse navigator jobs

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

Every open job: Nurse navigator 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 navigator salary: common questions

How much does a nurse navigator make an hour?

Open nurse navigator jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $51.25, with the middle half between $45.25–$68.75 (100 jobs from 44 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 navigator 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 $94,100 to $143,000. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states. 64 open jobs state a yearly salary instead, a median of $96,900.

Which states pay nurse navigators the most?

By the median hourly rate open jobs post: California ($92), Massachusetts ($70.25) and Illinois ($46). The lowest: Illinois ($46), Massachusetts ($70.25) and California ($92). Each state's page breaks its pay down by town and employer.

Which employers pay nurse navigators the most?

Among employers stating a rate on at least 5 open jobs: Sutter Health ($111.50), Providence ($64) and Advocate Health ($51.50). 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: 100 of 407 open nurse navigator jobs (25%) 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.

More pay by job: Nurses

Nurse navigator jobs →Every healthcare salary →Pay explorer →

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 navigator salary. Data as of October 24, 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/nurse-navigator

How the board counts