Markets Occupations Registered Nurses

Registered Nurses — Annual Median Wage

Occupation metric · SOC 29-1141 · Healthcare Practitioners & Technical · BLS OEWS · Annual · National

Role Report Compare Premium Report

Latest reading May 2025

$97,550 +4.22%up YoY
Atlanta
$100,490 May 2025
Atlanta vs U.S.
+3.0%

Annual Median Wage · BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) · National · May 2021 – May 2025

Registered Nurses — Annual Median Wage, National. 5 observations from May 2021 to May 2025.
Ask jobgetr.ai Registered Nurses · SOC 29-1141 · National

Ask about pay, demand, hiring conditions or how Atlanta compares for this role. Basic delivers quick answers. Advanced provides deeper market analysis.

What's happening with Registered Nurses

Employment for Registered Nurses in the U.S. is 3,379,720 (May 2025), up 2.98% from a year earlier. Median annual pay is $97,550.

Source: BLS OEWS · May 2025

Answers draw on jobgetr.ai market data. Every answer names its source and data period.

Key Stats

Latest$97,550 per yearMay 2025
Prior Year$93,6002024
Year Change+4.22%upYoY
3-Yr Change+20.1%upsince 2022
Healthcare Practitioners & Technical$86,530May 2025
All Occupations$50,980May 2025
Atlanta Reading$100,490May 2025
Atlanta vs U.S.+3.0%May 2025
Observations52021 – 2025
SOC Code29-1141
Occupation FamilyHealthcare Practitioners & Technical29-0000

Other Measures for Registered Nurses National

Employment 3,379,720 +2.98%up YoYMay 2025
Mean Annual Pay $101,420 +3.04%up YoYMay 2025
P10 Pay $68,940 +4.41%up YoYMay 2025
P25 Pay $80,330 +2.19%up YoYMay 2025
P75 Pay $112,350 +4.07%up YoYMay 2025
P90 Pay $137,470 +1.59%up YoYMay 2025

Job Economy Report the market around this measure · National

All Occupations — Median Annual Pay

$50,980
+2.99%up YoY

benchmark · National

jobgetr.ai Premium

Get the Full Premium Report

See how hard registered nurses will be to hire, from the market conditions jobgetr.ai publishes nationally.

  • Compensation the published pay distribution, 10th to 90th percentile
  • Demand employment and its change from a year earlier
  • Employment concentration jobs per 1,000 and the location quotient
  • Atlanta vs. national the same measures side by side where Atlanta publishes them
  • Hiring conditions market-wide openings, hires, quits and layoffs

View Premium Report: Registered Nurses Premium access is coming soon.

Recent News View more →

Performance Overview change over each horizon the series supports

Median Annual Pay · 1 Year

+4.22%up

May 2025

  • Healthcare Practitioners & Technical +4.14%up
  • All occupations +2.99%up

Median Annual Pay · 3 Year

+20.1%up

since 2022

Data & Methodology

Source BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS)
Dataset bls.oews
Reference Period May 2025
Frequency Annual
Seasonal Adjustment Not stated
Geography National
Unit per year
Metric ID bls.oews.annual_median_wage.soc_29_1141
Observations 5
Last Fetched 14 minutes ago
SOC Code 29-1141
Role Page Registered Nurses
Description Source O*NET 30.1 Database (O*NET-SOC 29-1141.00)

This page includes information from the O*NET 30.1 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. JobGetr has not modified the occupation description.

National is the default geography. Atlanta Beta covers msa:12060 only.

← Back to JobGetr Markets