Snapshot: This table displays the median RN salary for select metropolitan areas throughout the U.S., organized by state. This is raw salary data, not adjusted for the local cost of living in each metro area. See “RN Salaries Overview” for more information about the methodology.
- In the table, dark green colors indicate the highest salaries, and dark red colors indicate the lowest salaries.
- The metropolitan areas with the highest RN salaries can be found on the West Coast and in the Northeast.
- The metropolitan areas with the lowest RN salaries can be found in the Plains states (in the middle of the country), in the South, and in parts of the Midwest
Metropolitan Area (By State)
|
RN Annual Salary
|
| Alabama |
|
| Anniston-Oxford |
$48,330 |
| Birmingham-Hoover |
$55,430 |
| Decatur-Hartselle |
$47,400 |
| Dothan |
$53,210 |
| Florence-Muscle Shoals |
$46,020 |
| Huntsville |
$56,610 |
| Mobile |
$52,620 |
| Montgomery |
$58,500 |
| Tuscaloosa |
$58,040 |
| Alaska |
|
| Anchorage |
$82,320 |
| Fairbanks |
$81,720 |
| Juneau |
$76,710 |
| Arizona |
|
| Lake Havasu City-Kingman |
$65,800 |
| Phoenix-Mesa |
$73,000 |
| Prescott |
$74,180 |
| Tucson |
$66,310 |
| Yuma |
$70,700 |
| Arkansas |
|
| Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers(AR-MO) |
$54,950 |
| Hot Springs |
$54,550 |
| Jonesboro |
$53,040 |
| Little Rock-North Little Rock |
$58,120 |
| California |
|
| Bakersfield |
$85,760 |
| Fresno |
$71,400 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach |
$86,370 |
| Oakland-Fremont-Hayward |
$118,920 |
| Riverside-San Bernadino-Ontario |
$84,980 |
Sacramento-Aden
Arcade-Roseville |
$111,010 |
| San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos |
$87,030 |
| San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City |
$120,180 |
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara |
$130,110 |
| Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine |
$86,540 |
| Colorado |
|
| Colorado Springs |
$64,050 |
| Denver-Aurora |
$70,230 |
| Grand Junction |
$67,270 |
| Pueblo |
$64,240 |
| Connecticut |
|
| Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford |
$73,710 |
| New Haven-Milford |
$76,580 |
| Stamford-Norwalk |
$77,360 |
| Delaware |
|
| Dover |
$58,760 |
| Wilmington (DE-MD-NJ) |
$72,100 |
| District of Columbia |
|
| Washington-Arlington-Alexandria (DC-VA-MD) |
$73,580 |
| Florida |
|
| Cape Coral-Fort Myers |
$61,400 |
| Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach |
$54,710 |
| Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach |
$68,020 |
| Jacksonville |
$60,950 |
| Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall |
$59,200 |
| Orlando-Kissimmee |
$59,900 |
| Punta Gorda |
$57,960 |
| Sebastian-Vero Beach |
$54,930 |
| Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater |
$60,560 |
| Georgia |
|
| Albany |
$54,020 |
| Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta |
$64,240 |
| Augusta-Aiken (GA-SC) |
$63,480 |
| Dalton |
$49,560 |
| Savannah |
$59,220 |
| Valdosta |
$47,750 |
| Hawaii |
|
| Honolulu |
$89,810 |
| Idaho |
|
| Boise City-Nampa |
$59,790 |
| Idaho Falls |
$54,050 |
| Illinois |
|
| Champaign-Urbana |
$55,630 |
| Chicago-Naperville-Joliet |
$69,970 |
| Danville |
$63,310 |
| Kankakee-Bradley |
$65,940 |
| Peoria |
$56,130 |
| Rockford |
$58,980 |
| Springfield |
$58,480 |
| Indiana |
|
| Bloomington |
$56,100 |
| Elkhart-Goshen |
$52,030 |
| Evansville (IN-KY) |
$51,060 |
| Fort Wayne |
$50,160 |
| Indianapolis-Carmel |
$60,230 |
| Lafayette |
$57,830 |
| South Bend-Mishawaka (IN-MI) |
$56,930 |
| Iowa |
|
| Ames |
$52,520 |
| Cedar Rapids |
$46,660 |
| Davenport-Moline-Rock Island (IA-IL) |
$49,810 |
| Des Moines |
$54,930 |
| Waterloo-Cedar Falls |
$51,870 |
| Kansas |
|
| Manhattan |
$53,980 |
| Topeka |
$59,030 |
| Wichita |
$52,880 |
| Kentucky |
|
| Cincinnati-Middletown (OH-KY-IN) |
$60,880 |
| Lexington-Fayette |
$56,420 |
| Louisville (KY-IN) |
$60,250 |
| Louisiana |
|
| Alexandria |
$57,200 |
| Baton Rouge |
$60,860 |
| Hammond |
$60,500 |
| Lafayette |
$58,360 |
| Lake Charles |
$56,950 |
| Monroe |
$55,290 |
| New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner |
$63,870 |
| Shreveport-Bossier City |
$62,340 |
| Maine |
|
| Portland-South Portland-Biddeford |
$59,340 |
| Maryland |
|
| Baltimore-Towson |
$70,640 |
| Bethesda-Gaithersburg-Frederick |
$74,740 |
| Massachussetts |
|
| Boston-Quincy |
$80,850 |
| Worcester |
$78,880 |
| Michigain |
|
| Ann Arbor |
$60,990 |
| Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn |
$67,920 |
| Grand Rapids-Wyoming |
$58,160 |
| Kalamazoo-Portage |
$62,400 |
| Minnessota |
|
| Mankato-North Mankato |
$64,580 |
| Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington (MI-WI) |
$72,550 |
| Rochester |
$73,440 |
| St. Cloud |
$78,720 |
| Mississippi |
|
| Hattiesburg |
$55,730 |
| Jackson |
$62,280 |
| Missouri |
|
| Columbia |
$57,190 |
| Jefferson City |
$52,930 |
| Kansas City (MO-KS) |
$61,210 |
| St. Louis (MO-IL) |
$56,660 |
| Springfield |
$58,480 |
| Montana |
|
| Bozeman |
$55,810 |
| Kalispell |
$59,720 |
| Nebraska |
|
| Lincoln |
$54,450 |
| Omaha-Council Bluffs (NE-IA) |
$57,570 |
| Nevada |
|
| Las Vegas-Paradise |
$79,540 |
| Reno-Sparks |
$73,380 |
| New Hampshire |
|
| Manchester-Nashua |
$65,550 |
| New Jersey |
|
| Edison-Middlesex-Monmouth |
$77,740 |
| Newark-Elizabeth |
$78,760 |
| New Mexico |
|
| Albuquerque-Rio Rancho |
$68,850 |
| Las Cruces |
$59,550 |
| New York |
|
| Albany-Schenectady-Troy |
$58,210 |
| Buffalo-Niagra Falls |
$66,250 |
| Nassau-Suffolk |
$79,660 |
| New York City |
$80,690 |
| Rochester |
$58,620 |
| North Carolina |
|
| Asheville |
$59,160 |
| Burlington |
$59,220 |
| Chapel Hill |
$63,410 |
| Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord (NC-SC) |
$58,250 |
| Durham |
$63,410 |
| Greenville |
$60,300 |
| Raleigh-Cary |
$58,240 |
| Wilmington |
$58,110 |
| Winston-Salem |
$58,470 |
| North Dakota |
|
| Fargo (ND-MN) |
$54,250 |
| Minot |
$51,670 |
| Ohio |
|
| Akron |
$60,700 |
| Cincinnatti-Middletown (OH-KY-IN) |
$60,880 |
| Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor |
$64,630 |
| Columbus |
$60,270 |
| Dayton |
$61,130 |
| Lima |
$59,760 |
| Youngstown-Warren-Boardman (OH-PA) |
$53,780 |
| Oklahoma |
|
| Oklahoma City |
$57,030 |
| Lawton |
$57,230 |
| Tulsa |
$55,750 |
| Oregon |
|
| Klamath Falls |
$72,740 |
| Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton (OR-WA) |
$81,940 |
| Pennsylvania |
|
| Johnstown |
$57,980 |
| Philadelphia |
$70,530 |
| Pittsburgh |
$59,440 |
| Williamsport-Lycoming |
$59,310 |
| York-Hanover |
$68,810 |
| Rhode Island |
|
| Providence-New Bedford-Fall River (RI-MA) |
$71,580 |
| South Carolina |
|
| Anderson |
$56,690 |
| Charleston-North Charleston |
$64,190 |
| Columbia |
$56,490 |
| Greenville |
$57,950 |
| Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach |
$55,890 |
| Spartanburg |
$52,280 |
| Sumter |
$53,680 |
| South Dakota |
|
| Pierre |
$47,780 |
| Tennessee |
|
| Chattanooga (TN-GA) |
$54,700 |
| Knoxville |
$53,400 |
| Memphis (TN-MS-AR) |
$59,880 |
| Morristown |
$52,490 |
| Nashville-Franklin |
$58,060 |
| Texas |
|
| Amarillo |
$55,020 |
| Austin |
$61,880 |
| Brownsville |
$64,150 |
| Byran-College Station |
$63,320 |
| Corpus Christi |
$60,770 |
| Dallas |
$68,960 |
| El Paso |
$62,870 |
| Fort Worth |
$67,020 |
| Houston-Sugar Land |
$72,870 |
| Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood |
$61,020 |
| Lubbock |
$55,070 |
| McAllen-Edinburg-Mission |
$67,150 |
| Odessa |
$57,530 |
| San Angelo |
$56,830 |
| San Antonio |
$66,630 |
| Sherman-Denison |
$58,470 |
| Texarkana (TX-AR) |
$57,060 |
| Tyler |
$57,160 |
| Waco |
$57,770 |
| Wichita Falls |
$53,810 |
| Utah |
|
| Ogden-Clearfield |
$58,290 |
| Provo-Orem |
$55,830 |
| St. George |
$56,670 |
| Salt Lake City |
$60,600 |
| Vermont |
|
| Burlington-South Burlington |
$63,870 |
| Virginia |
|
| Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford |
$53,510 |
| Charlottesville |
$64,420 |
| Danville |
$53,780 |
| Harrisonburg |
$55,390 |
| Lynchburg |
$54,470 |
| Richmond |
$64,110 |
| Roanoke |
$57,610 |
| Winchester (VA-WV) |
$65,930 |
| Washington |
|
| Kenneick-Richland-Pasco |
$65,080 |
| Olympia |
$79,140 |
| Seattle-Bellevue-Everett |
$78,840 |
| Spokane |
$73,100 |
| Tacoma |
$74,060 |
| Yakima |
$63,400 |
| West Virginia |
|
| Charleston |
$54,750 |
| Wisconsin |
|
| Eau Claire |
$65,730 |
| Green Bay |
$58,680 |
| Janesville |
$59,780 |
| Madison |
$70,580 |
| Milwaukee-Waukesha |
$64,430 |
| Wasau |
$57,870 |
| Wyoming |
|
| Laramie |
$59,210 |
The 10 U.S. metropolitan areas with the highest RN median salaries are:
Metropolitan Area
|
RN Annual Salary
|
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara |
$130,110 |
| San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City |
$120,180 |
| Oakland-Fremont-Hayward |
$118,920 |
| Sacramento-Aden Arcade-Roseville |
$111,010 |
| Honolulu |
$89,810 |
| San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos |
$87,030 |
| Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine |
$86,540 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach |
$86,370 |
| Bakersfield |
$85,760 |
| Riverside-San Bernadino-Ontario |
$84,980 |
The 10 U.S. metropolitan areas with the lowest RN median salaries are:
Metropolitan Area
|
RN Annual Salary
|
| Florence-Muscle Shoals |
$46,020 |
| Cedar Rapids |
$46,660 |
| Decatur-Hartselle |
$47,400 |
| Valdosta |
$47,750 |
| Pierre |
$47,780 |
| Anniston-Oxford |
$48,330 |
| Dalton |
$49,560 |
| Davenport-Moline-Rock Island (IA-IL) |
$49,810 |
| Fort Wayne |
$50,160 |
| Evansville (IN-KY) |
$51,060 |