NP salary/job market

babyNP., APRN · Aug 31, 2018

Salaries vary based on location, specialty, in-patient vs out-patient, and years of experience- impossible to say one answer due to that. I think the starting question you should ask yourself is what kind of nurse practitioner do you want to be? In-patient or out-patient? ICU or acute care? Adults or kids? Specialty or general? The answers to those can help guide a more realistic picture of what you can expect in terms of salary. Salary is definitely an important consideration, so you are on the right track.

In general those who work in ICU/acute care make more money, but lots of out-patient NPs get bonuses based on how many patients they see that make up for it and surpass the former.

InquisitiveAPN · Sep 6, 2018

I feel like salaries have decreased n from employers I've talked with. I took a job with a base pay and productivity pay model, after several years left, and my replacement was offered 20k less in base and no productivity.

Being paid for "quality" is nonsense as well.

Income will vary sharply by specialty, work environment, employer, and region.

You can make a lot of money (more than you imagine NPs making) on a productivity model, but you'll work and work and work and become addicted to the pay and hate your job. Happened to me.

Some specialties aren't tailored to a high pay. Peds and Adult primary care NPs probably won't top the pay charts. The acute care people seem to have trouble finding work being limited to the more populated or busy patient centers.

Everyone either wants to do psychiatry or anesthesia for minimal work and higher pay.

NP is a good way to go, but remember it's a job and not an executive status position. There will always be both physicians and patients who don't want NPs either in the job market or as their medical provider.

I hope with your little one you first get a job with hours to suit your needs, no holidays, and the best pay you can get.

What is it you envision yourself doing in the workplace? What actually interests you aside from pay? (Don't get me wrong. I also love pay!) Where do you want to go from there?

I'm at a point I don't really want to be a standard clinician anymore (see the same illnesses, provide same treatments, submit same billings), but NPs are sort of climaxed on their career options. I've already taught other NPs, and that was nice, but I'm not into research as a career nor the liberal culture of most universities. Administration is a problem because of quality. I don't support contemporary quality measures as a litmus of efficacy or guide for revenue.

So despite what you do, having found you for some period were exuberant about what you do, you could still face the same questions.

nbtw · Sep 9, 2018

To very directly answer your question:

1)What salaries do guys make/offered? As a new grad $90,000-100,000. With 2 years of experience $115,000. If you choose psych NP then very likely more than this.

2)what area are you in? Connecticut

3) was it hard to find work? It's very hard to find work as a new grad. Start looking months before you graduate. Consider asking your clinical rotation sites if they would consider employing you when your done (that is if you liked those rotations). Being an FNP is not easy work. Some people love it and others hate it. I know a lot of older FNPs who love it but the profession has changed a lot in just the past 5 years and these NPs are close to retirement. I know a lot of knew NPs with regrets. Do a lot of research before you make your choice. You want this to be an investment not a failed (or rather regrettable) venture.