2007 Salary Survey Results

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The most pertinent geographic trend showed California as the earnings front runner (no surprise here) at an average salary of $96,225 (Table 8). What might be surprising is that Rhode Island was a close second, coming in just $200 lower than California in average salary. Finishing a distant third was the District of Columbia (a $5,494 difference). Hawaii and Arizona both hover around $89,700 to round out the top five. Salary averages for a random selection of cities within certain states are provided in Table 9.

If you're debating where to move within a state, your best bet for the most money is still in the city centers, where the average salary is $83,100 (Table 10). Practice in suburban areas will reduce your pay by about $1,321 ($81,779), and rural practice drops you further, to earning $5,204 less than NPs in urban settings.

2007 Salary Survey Results

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Regarding MD instead of NP. Both profession brings benefits to patients. We need to stop comparing salaries. Md pay much much more to go to school, We are all free to do what we want. I love what I do and I am payed much much more then the what the survey says.
Marc CA

Marc Oliver, NP, HOSPITAL	August 28, 2009
Anaheim, CA

In response to John, I don't think you are a schmuck at all. How much do you owe in student loans for your medical education? How many total years have you had to spend as a "student"? What are your insurance fees?

I chose to enter nursing because it was focused on the whole person, rather than disease. I considered medical school, and even had the premedical preparation in my undergrad work to get in. But it just seemed that I would be spending around 8 years getting to a place where I could actually help people as a full time professional, and that I would eventually be spending half my "big salary" on repaying student loans or the costs of pursuing the work of being a doctor.

It was an easy decision.

Ella	March 17, 2009
NM

I did my advanced clinicals in a practice where a physician friend of mine was doing her third-year residency. We had the same preceptor, we saw the same number of patients, we participated in the same meetings, and we wrote the same scripts.

After graduation, we both accepted jobs a different clinic. We see the same number of patients, we participate in the same meetings, and we write the same scripts.

She earns 150% more salary than I earn. Plus, I have additional administrative duties supervising a staff of four nurses. I passed two board certifications (NP and CNS) and she has not taken her boards. When she does, she will get a boost in her salary for passing her boards.

Was I the schmuck for not negotiating a better deal?

John	March 17, 2009

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