NP pay per hour vs specialty?

[LiveFit99]

I'm trying to plot out my future career and compensation matters. Can anyone speak to pay differences among specialties, real apples to apples differences?

Anywhere I've seen pay per hour reports just takes yearly salary and extrapolates to 40 hours per week. However, I've also seen that different specialties average different hours per week, and different average years experience.

In particular, pediatric NP were listed around 33 hours/week vs acute care at 40 hours/week. Well jeez, I would expect lower salary if working 20% fewer hours! Also, neonatal NP are some of the oldest, so perhaps more years experience explains their higher salaries.

Anyone have first hand knowledge about true compensation differences among specialties? Especially critical care, pediatric, and neonatal NP?

[NewbieFNP, MSN, RN, APRN]

In my area (Southeast Tennessee) the going rate is $45.00 per hour. The Per Diem rate is a bit more.

[babyNP., APRN]

NNPs are intensivists that work in a setting requiring knowledge of critical care medicine and doing invasive procedures, not to mention frequent resuscitation, so...of course we are paid higher than the average, not really to do with people's ages. As a new grad NP with 6 years of RN experience, I made $95k right out of school working 40 hours a week in a low cost of living area.

[LiveFit99]

Any ideas on a PNP? Would a ACPNP expect more?

[PG2018]

Psych NP salary is variable, but supply v. demand may yield high salaries. With salary and bonus combined my beginning salary is close to 200k in an office setting with three day weekends. This is the Southern U.S. I am of the opinion RN experience should have no bearing on NP pay or responsibility.

[deediaz]

I'm a new neurosurg NP (with 15 years RN neuro ICU exp) and I'm making 111k. I was offered primary care positions from 80-90k prior to taking this position. I live in south FL.