Nurse Practitioners

Pay range for Nurse Practitioners

Annual base pay at each percentile. BLS covers all U.S. workers in this occupation; H-1B covers 56 certified Labor Condition Applications filed by sponsoring employers in the last 12 months.

Job outlook for Nurse Practitioners

BLS projects employment of nurse practitioners to grow 41% from 2025 to 2035, faster than the 3.5% average for all occupations. About 29,400 openings are projected each year, on average, from new jobs and from replacing workers who retire or move to other occupations.

Self-employed

1.6% of workers (2025)

Preparation needed (O*NET Job Zone 5)

Extensive Preparation Needed. Most of these occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2025–2035 · BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook →

Pay by H-1B wage level

Employers assign every H-1B filing a Department of Labor prevailing-wage level, from Level I (entry) to Level IV (fully competent). Pay rises steeply with level.

Salaries by job title in Nurse Practitioners

The 1 most-filed job titles inside SOC 29-1171, from 56 H-1B filings. Seniority words and level numbers are grouped (“Senior Data Engineer II” counts as Data Engineer). Tap a title for its full range, wage levels and the exact titles employers used.

Titles are cleaned from the employer's own LCA text (codes and typos removed, nothing invented). Rows need 10+ filings in this SOC.

Top H-1B sponsors for Nurse Practitioners

Employers with the most certified LCAs for this occupation nationwide. Browse all sponsors →

Nurse Practitioners salaries by state

BLS state medians, plus the same figure adjusted for local prices (BEA Regional Price Parities). Tap a state for its full range and H-1B pay.

Nurse Practitioners salaries by metro area

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Skills needed for Nurse Practitioners

How important each skill and knowledge area is for this job, rated by O*NET on a 1–5 scale from surveys of workers and occupational analysts.

Source: O*NET 31.0 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.

What nurse practitioners do

• Maintain complete and detailed records of patients' health care plans and prognoses.
• Develop treatment plans, based on scientific rationale, standards of care, and professional practice guidelines.
• Provide patients with information needed to promote health, reduce risk factors, or prevent disease or disability.
• Analyze and interpret patients' histories, symptoms, physical findings, or diagnostic information to develop appropriate diagnoses.
• Diagnose or treat complex, unstable, comorbid, episodic, or emergency conditions in collaboration with other health care providers as necessary.
• Prescribe medication dosages, routes, and frequencies, based on such patient characteristics as age and gender.
• Diagnose or treat chronic health care problems, such as high blood pressure and diabetes.
• Prescribe medications based on efficacy, safety, and cost as legally authorized.

Source: O*NET 31.0 (USDOL/ETA, CC BY 4.0). These are general job titles, not H-1B filings; for titles employers actually filed, see “Job titles” above.

Similar jobs and how they pay

Occupations O*NET lists as closely related to Nurse Practitioners, with BLS national medians compared with this occupation's $132,300.

Job growth is the BLS projected change in employment, 2025–2035.