As of April 01, 2025, the average hourly pay of Nurse Practitioner in the United States is $56. While Salary.com is seeing that Nurse Practitioner salary in the US can go up to $65 or down to $47, but most earn between $51 and $61. Salary.com shows the average base salary (core compensation), as well as the average total cash compensation for the job of Nurse Practitioner in the United States.
| Annual Salary |
Monthly Pay |
Weekly Pay |
Hourly Wage |
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| 75th Percentile | $61 | $5 | $1 | $0 |
| Average | $56 | $5 | $1 | $0 |
| 25th Percentile | $51 | $4 | $1 | $0 |
As of April 01, 2025, Salary.com is seeing that an entry-level Nurse Practitioner with under 1 year experience makes about $112,687. With less than 2 years of experience, a mid-level Nurse Practitioner makes around $113,449. After 2-4 years, the Nurse Practitioner pay rises to about $117,077. Those senior Nurse Practitioner with 5-8 years of experience earn roughly $120,948, and those Nurse Practitioner having 8 years or more experience is expected to earn about $121,639 on average.
| Levels | Salary |
|---|---|
| Entry Level Nurse Practitioner | $112,687 |
| Intermediate Level Nurse Practitioner | $113,449 |
| Senior Level Nurse Practitioner | $117,077 |
| Specialist Level Nurse Practitioner | $120,948 |
| Expert Level Nurse Practitioner | $121,639 |
| Entry Level | 4% |
| Mid Level | 3% |
| Senior Level | 0% |
| Top Level | 4% |
| Experienced | 4% |
Salaries in the United States can vary significantly from state to state due to a multitude of factors, including cost of living, local economic conditions, and industry presence.
For example, as of April 01, 2025, the average yearly salary of Nurse Practitioner is $128,832 in California and in Massachusetts, the average annual salary goes to $127,115. While in New Jersey, a Nurse Practitioner earns $126,601 per year.
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Salaries in the United States can vary significantly from city to city due to a multitude of factors, including cost of living, local economic conditions, and industry presence.
For example, as of April 01, 2025, the average yearly salary of Nurse Practitioner in San Francisco, CA is $145,873 and in New York, NY, the average annual salary goes to $135,361. While a Nurse Practitioner earns $130,268 per year in Boston, MA.
For those exploring the changing dynamics of Nurse Practitioner salaries, Salary.com offers detailed insights through our Job Trending in CA Labor Market analysis. As of April 01, 2025, our research highlights a notable shift in Nurse Practitioner compensation over the past six years. For instance, the median salary has moved from $231,993 in 2023 to about $237,504 in 2024 (for a comprehensive analysis of Nurse Practitioner salary trends, click here). It's crucial to consider several elements, including geographical location, experience level, industry demand, and economic development, as they play a significant role in influencing salary variations.
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| Core Compensation | ||||
| Core Compensation | Median | % of Total | ||
| Base Salary | $116,801 | 73.3% | ||
| Bonus | $0 | 0.0% | ||
| Value of Benefits | ||||
| Core Compensation | Median | % of Total | ||
| Social Security | $8,935 | 5.6% | ||
| 401K/403B | $5,723 | 3.6% | ||
| Disability | $1,869 | 1.2% | ||
| Healthcare | $6,371 | 4.0% | ||
| Pension | $4,906 | 3.1% | ||
| Time Off | $14,825 | 9.3% | ||
| Total Compensation | $159,429 | 100% | ||
| Degree Level | % of user with this level of education |
|---|---|
| No Diploma | 0.2% |
| High School | 0.8% |
| Associates | 0.9% |
| Bachelors | 3.2% |
| Masters | 91.2% |
| Doctorate | 3.7% |
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Examines and treats patients independently and in autonomous collaboration with other health care professionals. Ensures proper illness and injury care and disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. May prescribe medications and order diagnostic tests. Advises patients about continuing care. Requires a master's degree. Typically reports to a manager or head of a unit/department. Requires RN. Requires Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner (ARNP) or Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner (CRNP). Years of experience may be unspecified. Certification and/or licensing in the position's specialty is the main requirement.
Specify the abilities and skills that a person needs in order to carry out the specified job duties. Each competency has five to ten behavioral assertions that can be observed, each with a corresponding performance level (from one to five) that is required for a particular job.
Collaboration: Works cooperatively and shares ideas with coworkers and managers to achieve common goals and objectives.
Acute Care: Acute care is a branch of secondary health care where a patient receives active but short-term treatment for a severe injury or episode of illness, an urgent medical condition, or during recovery from surgery. In medical terms, care for acute health conditions is the opposite from chronic care, or longer term care. Acute care services are generally delivered by teams of health care professionals from a range of medical and surgical specialties. Acute care may require a stay in a hospital emergency department, ambulatory surgery center, urgent care centre or other short-term stay facility, along with the assistance of diagnostic services, surgery, or follow-up outpatient care in the community. Hospital-based acute inpatient care typically has the goal of discharging patients as soon as they are deemed healthy and stable. Acute care settings include emergency department, intensive care, coronary care, cardiology, neonatal intensive care, and many general areas where the patient could become acutely unwell and require stabilization and transfer to another higher dependency unit for further treatment.
Health Assessment: A health assessment is a plan of care that identifies the specific needs of a person and how those needs will be addressed by the healthcare system or skilled nursing facility.
