Source: www.payscale.com Parameters: 5 years experience in all fields
City: Chicago Salary quoted: 50th percentile unless otherwise noted
Physicians are quoted for private practice CRNA quoted as permanent
CRNA salary 121K (50th percentile) with the 75th percentile at 137K
Nurse Practitioner 78K
Nurse manager 59K
RN 55K
Family physician 127K
Internist 127K
Rheumatologist 128K
Pediatrician 129K
Oncologist 129K
Pulmonolist 129K
General Surgeon 137K (25th percentile is 87K)
Neurologist 139K
Psychiatrist 146K
ER physician 161K
Plastic surgeon 207K (25th percentile is 125K)
Ortho surgeon 228K
Analysis: Nurse anesthetist salaries are within 5% of the majority of primary care physician salaries and within 10% of many physician specialists. The nurse anesthetists salaries are greater than some surgeon salaries for which they provide anesthesia and in some cases, nurse anesthetists make substantially more in salary than the surgeon for which they deliver anesthesia. Nurse anesthetists (not considered advance practice nurses in some states) make 224% of the RN salary and 156% of the nurse practitioner salary (an advance practice nurse in all states).
According to allnurses website, 58% of CRNAs are non-advanced degree nurses, having only a RN degree.