Nursing Salaries is an independent reference site for nurses and nursing students. It answers money and career questions with official numbers: what RNs, LPNs/LVNs, CNAs, nurse practitioners, nurse anesthetists and nurse midwives are paid in every state and metro area, how much of that pay you keep, what NICU, pediatric, labor and delivery and psychiatric roles pay where BLS publishes the data, and how long and how much each license or certification takes.
What we do
- Official wage data down to the metro area. Every salary is a BLS OEWS May 2025 estimate (10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentile) for registered nurses, LPNs/LVNs, nursing assistants, nurse practitioners, nurse anesthetists and nurse midwives, for the nation, all 50 states plus DC and each metro or nonmetro area, as published through O*NET OnLine by the U.S. Department of Labor.
- Calculators you can check. The salary, take-home, comparison, travel-contract and payback tools show their inputs and formulas; the 2026 federal tax math follows IRS Rev. Proc. 2025-32 and is covered by automated tests.
- License rules from the source. NCLEX, Nurse Licensure Compact, federal nurse aide training and nurse anesthesia accreditation rules are summarized from NCSBN, the eCFR, the accreditor or the state board, linked and dated.
- No school, agency or recruiter ads in the content. We do not sell nursing programs, collect leads for schools, travel agencies or recruiters, or rank programs or employers for payment.
Who we are
Nursing Salaries is written and maintained by a small independent team in Türkiye that works from BLS, O*NET, NCSBN, state board of nursing, eCFR and certifying-board documents rather than job-board samples or self-reported salary surveys. We are not affiliated with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, O*NET, NCSBN, the Nurse Licensure Compact, any state board of nursing, the AANP, AANA, COA, ACEN, CCNE, any school, hospital, employer or staffing or travel-nurse agency.
How the site is funded
Display ads from Google AdSense pay for the site. No advertiser, school, hospital, staffing or travel-nurse agency chooses which wages, roles, certifications or programs we cover, and ads stay separate from the tables and calculators.
How we choose and check sources is in our editorial policy; the limits of survey wages, travel contract math and take-home estimates are in our disclaimer; what data the site handles is in our privacy policy. Corrections and questions go through the contact page.