Registered Nurses
Income Percentile Results
Total Income of $55,000 ranks between the 20.6th and 33th percentiles for all education levels. These results were estimated off of 3,195,577 Registered Nurses.
50th Percentile (Median) Income for any Education Level: $79,32075th Percentile: $104,046
95th Percentile: $166,613
99th Percentile: $275,572
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Income Percentile Stats
- To be in the top 1% for this age range, your household would need an income of $275,572 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.
- To be in the top 5% for this age range, your household would need an income of $166,613 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.
Income of Registered Nurses by Highest Education Level
Total Income of $55,000 ranks for education levels:- Compared to Doctoral degree holders this ranks between the 9.1th and 13.6th percentiles.
- Compared to Professional degree beyond a Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 14.4th and 21.8th percentiles.
- Compared to Master's degree holders this ranks between the 9.6th and 15.4th percentiles.
- Compared to Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 18.9th and 32.3th percentiles.
- Compared to HS Diploma / GED degree holders this ranks between the 35.9th and 48th percentiles.
Income Percentile Distribution by Education Level
Highest Level of Education for Registered Nurses:- Other (N/A or Less than HS): 0.6%
- HS Diploma / GED: 1.2%
- Associates Degree and Some College: 29.1%
- Bachelors Degree: 50.1%
- Masters Degree: 15.5%
- Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors: 2.3%
- Doctoral Degree (PHd) : 1.2%
Most Common Bachelors Degree Majors
- For Medical and Health Sciences and Services undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 17.9th and 31.3th percentiles.
- For Business undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 21.4th and 34.1th percentiles.
- For Biology and Life Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 22.9th and 40.6th percentiles.
- For Psychology undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 27.1th and 39.9th percentiles.
- For Education Administration and Teaching undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 21.6th and 34.1th percentiles.
- For Social Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 21.1th and 31.1th percentiles.
- For Physical Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 18.7th and 30.5th percentiles.
- For Communications undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 23.2th and 38.1th percentiles.
- For Fine Arts undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 19.4th and 32.7th percentiles.
- For Physical Fitness, Parks, Recreation, and Leisure undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 28.5th and 45.9th percentiles.
Treemap of Undergraduate Majors
Methodology and Assumptions
This data was sourced from the person-level data recorded by the American Communities Survey. The version of the survey used was the most recent 5 year revision for data recorded from 2017-2022. These results represent 3,195,577 Registered Nurses. The occupation code that was used to generate these results e was 3130 to read more about the occupation codes that the ACS and Census use. These results were generated in R using raw data from the ACS and precalculated in a batch. This data includes all individual income for the survey respondent, so some of the people may have a wage job as well as other income sources. I did not limit to wage income, because many occupations have high portions of entrepreneurs (CEOs, doctors, tradespeople).
Exclusions and Filters Applied:- Filtered for people who reported working at least 30 hours a week.
- High School Graduates and GED graduates were original 2 separate categories that I combined.
- Anything below High School Graduates is combined into a separate category. I did not include these on the page for space reason but I can. The data has data for associate degree holders and some college and these values are mostly in between the high school and bachelors samples. There doesn't seem to be a significant difference between some college and an associates degree.
- All ages are included and not separated. I did some initial testing and there is a difference if the data is split out by age, but I wasn't able to consolidate the data into a way that would make it fast to interact with and avoid being too complicated.
- There may be some confusion around a masters degree vs a professional degree beyond a masters. This was a distinction made in the original raw data that I decided to keep. Because the data is collected by polling people individually, some of the respondents may have mixed up the difference depending on how they phrased their response.
- Masters Degree : MBA, Masters in Something
- Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors Degree: Law Degree, Medical School, generally these degrees are credentials for specific careers.
- Doctoral Degree: PHd