Registered Nurses

What do Registered 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 Registered Nurses

RoleHue publishes 198 salary records for Registered Nurses, across 9 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $76,423 at the 25th percentile to $79,646 at the 75th, a spread of $3,223 around $78,047. Each of those three figures averages the city-level percentiles rather than ranking the pooled records, and weights each city by how many records it holds, so the cities we hold most data for pull them hardest. Measured against that $78,047 figure rather than in dollars (4% of it), that spread is tighter than 95% of the roles we cover, so a single record tells you more here than it would for most titles.

Rochester, NY carries the highest median we hold for the role at $90,605; New Orleans, LA the lowest at $62,400, a gap of $28,205. The middle half of those city medians, weighted by how many records each city contributes, spans $22,526, wider than the $3,223 band within cities: for Registered Nurses, which metro a record comes from separates our numbers more than where a record sits within its own metro.

No single metro carries most of this: the largest share is Rochester, NY, with 55 of the 198 records we publish for this role (28%). Evidence clears 25 records in 2 of the 9 cities; for the rest, the city median we show rests on fewer records than that.

Salary Overview

Weighted average across all cities with available data. Based on 198 data points.

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