What is the average salary for Critical Care Nurses?

The average salary for Critical Care Nurses is $83K per year, weighted across all cities with data and based on 18 public records.

Which cities pay Critical Care Nurses the most?

The highest-paying cities for Critical Care Nurses include Oak Park, IL.

What skills do Critical Care Nurses need?

Key skills for Critical Care Nurses include Domain Expertise, Problem Solving, Communication, Collaboration, Analytical Thinking.

Critical Care Nurses

Salary benchmarks based on 18 public records across 1 city.

Limited data: 18 points across cities

What do Critical Care Nurses do?

Assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records. Administer nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled patients. May advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention or provide case management. Licensing or registration required. Includes Clinical Nurse Specialists. Excludes “Nurse Anesthetists” (29-1151), “Nurse Midwives” (29-1161), and “Nurse Practitioners” (29-1171).

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 29-1141)

What our data shows for Critical Care Nurses

RoleHue publishes 18 salary records for Critical Care Nurses, across a single city. Weighted across that city, the 25th, 50th and 75th percentiles all land on $83,200, so there is no meaningful range to show for the role yet.

Every one of those records comes from Oak Park, IL, so nothing on this page should be read as a national figure. It is one metro's picture, and it will change shape as other cities reach the ten-record threshold we require before publishing a number.