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Psychiatric nurse practitioner salary

Open psychiatric nurse practitioner jobs post a median of $77.75 an hour, with the middle half paying $68.25–$91: about $161,700 a year full time. Measured from 28 jobs at 25 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$77.75
Median posted /hr
$68–$91
Middle half /hr
$161,700
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$63.61
BLS median /hr
May 2025

The jobs themselves: Psychiatric nurse practitioner jobs · A specialty of nurse practitioner pay

What psychiatric 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 28 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $39.41, the highest $135.

Posted on open jobs

$68.25–$91/hr

Middle half of 26 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $77.75. 8% of the 345 open psychiatric nurse practitioner jobs state an hourly rate. 2 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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Psychiatric nurse practitioner pay by employer

What each employer posts for psychiatric 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
Spero$100$65–$1352
MultiCare Health System$92.50$85.10–$1002
Atlantic Health$84.50$61.18–$107.692
Northwell Health$107.50$80–$1351
NewYork-Presbyterian$102.75$102.731
Children's Home of Wyoming Conference$100$98–$1021
Virtua Health$94$941
Downtown Emergency Service Center$91.50$91.471
ARC Health Partners$90$80–$1001
Fairview Health Services$85$851
Sound Mental Health$81$78.86–$82.891
Crossover Health$79.50$68.86–$901
Northwestern Medicine$76$66–$86.201
RWJBarnabas Health$75.50$57.69–$93.411
Confluence Health$73.50$68.27–$78.851
Pediatrix Medical Group$72.50$60–$851
Acadia Healthcare$70$65–$751
PrimeCare Medical$70$60–$801
First Step House$67.50$65–$701
HealthPartners$66.75$53.41–$80.111
UnitedHealth Group$65.75$52.64–$78.851
Boston Medical Center$64.25$52.40–$75.961
Fundamental Healthcare$57$571
Beloit Health System$51$39.41–$62.591
Easter Seals Florida$45$451

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.

Psychiatric 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.

66 open jobs from 44 employers state a yearly salary: a median of $151,600, the middle half $134,900 to $176,600, from $15,000 to $393,500 posted.

Best-paid open psychiatric nurse practitioner jobs

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

Every open job: Psychiatric 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 ($77.75) is $14.14 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.

Psychiatric nurse practitioner salary: common questions

How much does a psychiatric nurse practitioner make an hour?

Open psychiatric nurse practitioner jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $77.75, with the middle half between $68.25–$91 (28 jobs from 25 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 psychiatric nurse practitioner make a year?

At the posted median of $77.75 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $161,700, and the middle half to $142,000 to $189,300. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states. 66 open jobs state a yearly salary instead, a median of $151,600.

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: 28 of 345 open psychiatric nurse practitioner jobs (8%) 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). Psychiatric nurse practitioner salary. Data as of October 24, 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/psychiatric-nurse-practitioner

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