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Nurse practitioner salary

Open nurse practitioner jobs post a median of $74.50 an hour, with the middle half paying $65–$87.25: about $155,000 a year full time. Measured from 450 jobs at 130 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$74.50
Median posted /hr
$65–$87
Middle half /hr
$155,000
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$63.61
BLS median /hr
May 2025

The jobs themselves: Nurse practitioner jobs

What nurse practitioners 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 450 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $23.35, the highest $250.

Posted on open jobs

$65–$87.25/hr

Middle half of 259 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $74.50. 15% of the 3,048 open nurse practitioner jobs state an hourly rate. 17 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 practitioner pay by employer

What each employer posts for nurse practitioners, 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
Marathon Health$66.50$52–$9131
Mount Sinai Health System$84.50$64.85–$96.4219
Atlantic Health$84.50$61.18–$107.6918
Kaiser Permanente$91$69.75–$159.9117
CVS Health$66$37.66–$108.1516
Confluence Health$71.75$65.87–$82.6915
UnitedHealth Group$63.50$43.58–$7915
One Medical$62.25$59.10–$7715
Midi Health$65$55–$7514
RWJBarnabas Health$74.50$57.69–$93.4112
Cedars-Sinai$94.25$72.55–$126.1811
Immediate Care Walk-In Management$75$68–$8211
Hackensack Meridian Health$71.75$70.36–$75.319
UCSF Health$121.25$105.05–$141.877
Legacy Health$75.50$56.62–$111.157
Advocate Health$68.75$51.05–$82.357
UPMC$63.75$48.17–$76.527
Northwell Health$107.50$73.93–$1356
Catholic Health (Long Island)$93$85–$93.816
Sharp HealthCare$89.25$77.91–$108.366
Endeavor Health$69.25$56.25–$90.856
Southcoast Health System$77.75$71.45–$845
Powers Health$65.75$49–$79.815
Mercyhealth$62.50$45–$805
Sutter Health$120.50$95.33–$142.644
MarinHealth$97$85.95–$108.454
Mass General Brigham$92.75$50.70–$134.784
CommonSpirit Health$91.50$47.41–$116.674
Kaweah Health$86$64.81–$109.364
Crossover Health$83$65.73–$984
Children's Minnesota$78.25$63.22–$95.654
Holon Health$75$72–$784
Northwestern Medicine$70.25$61–$86.204
OSF HealthCare$61$55.20–$70.094
MultiCare Health System$100$85.10–$105.273
ConvenientMD$96.50$68–$1253
MemorialCare$89.50$69.68–$109.383
Rochester Regional Health$75$65–$753
Emerson Hospital$67.50$55–$1003
Adventist HealthCare$67.25$50.80–$83.823

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 practitioner 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$91.50$81–$103.75$81.02 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)81
Washington$80.25$73–$90.25$75.05 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)34
New York$78.25$68.50–$90$73.80 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)54
Massachusetts$75.50$68.50–$82.75$68.48 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)30
Oregon$75.50$72.50–$93.25$74.85 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)11
Minnesota$75$69.50–$85$64.07 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)14
New Jersey$74.75$70.50–$77$76.59 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)64
Florida$70$64.50–$72.75$62.26 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)11
Colorado$69.25$62.75–$72.50$63.91 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)9
Wisconsin$68.50$63.75–$73$63.45 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)12
Virginia$65.75$61.75–$71.50$61.45 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)16
Ohio$65.50$64.75–$70.75$60.03 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)8
North Carolina$64.50$59.50–$67$62.01 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)13
Indiana$64.50$64–$71.50$61.94 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)12
Illinois$64.25$62.25–$70$62.83 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)31
Pennsylvania$64$62.25–$66.75$62.57 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)15
Maryland$63.50$62.50–$67.25$63.03 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)10

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).

Night shift nurse practitioner pay

Where one employer posts both night and other nurse practitioner jobs in the same state (4 such employers and states), the night jobs post the same base rate as the rest (the median gap is $0): most employers state their night differential apart from the base pay, so check the posting for it.

Employer, stateNight jobs, medianOther jobs, median
Mount Sinai Health System, NY$84.50 (4)$84.50 (15)
RWJBarnabas Health, NJ$74.50 (3)$74.50 (9)
Cedars-Sinai, CA$102.50 (1)$94.25 (10)
Southcoast Health System, MA$74 (1)$80.25 (4)

A job counts as a night job when its title names nights ("Nights", "NOC", "7p-7a"). Jobs in brackets.

Nurse practitioner 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.

537 open jobs from 158 employers state a yearly salary: a median of $140,400, the middle half $126,500 to $160,000, from $15,000 to $393,500 posted.

Nurse practitioner specialties

What each specialty posts. A specialty's jobs also count in the nurse practitioner figures above.

Best-paid open nurse practitioner jobs

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

Every open job: Nurse practitioner 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
Nurse Practitioners (29-1171)$48.72 (source: BLS OEWS, Nurse Practitioners, opens in a new tab)$56.73 (source: BLS OEWS, Nurse Practitioners, opens in a new tab)$63.61 (source: BLS OEWS, Nurse Practitioners, opens in a new tab)$75.34 (source: BLS OEWS, Nurse Practitioners, opens in a new tab)$83.86 (source: BLS OEWS, Nurse Practitioners, opens in a new tab)323,040 (source: BLS OEWS, Nurse Practitioners, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($74.50) is $10.89 above the BLS median ($63.61 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Nurse Practitioners, 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 practitioner salary: common questions

How much does a nurse practitioner make an hour?

Open nurse practitioner jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $74.50, with the middle half between $65–$87.25 (450 jobs from 130 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 $63.61/hr ($132,300 a year) for nurse practitioners in May 2025.

How much does a nurse practitioner make a year?

At the posted median of $74.50 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $155,000, and the middle half to $135,200 to $181,500. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states. 537 open jobs state a yearly salary instead, a median of $140,400.

Which states pay nurse practitioners the most?

By the median hourly rate open jobs post: California ($91.50), Washington ($80.25) and New York ($78.25). The lowest: Maryland ($63.50), Pennsylvania ($64) and Illinois ($64.25). Each state's page breaks its pay down by town and employer.

Which employers pay nurse practitioners the most?

Among employers stating a rate on at least 5 open jobs: UCSF Health ($121.25), Northwell Health ($107.50) and Cedars-Sinai ($94.25). The employer table lists the 40 employers with the most jobs stating pay.

Do night shift nurse practitioners earn more?

Not in the base rate employers post: where one employer posts both night and other nurse practitioner jobs in the same state (4 such employers and states), the median gap is $0. Most state their night differential separately in the posting.

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: 450 of 3,048 open nurse practitioner jobs (15%) 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: Nurse Practitioners (SOC 29-1171), published May 15, 2026
  3. BLS OEWS May 2025: Nurse Practitioners by state, published May 15, 2026
  4. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Nurse Practitioners (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

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

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