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I feel like those "average salary" statistics are almost useless to interpret, especially for new grads. They rely on a person having years of experience, and different specialties vary a lot in their salaries. Also, salaries are far from the whole picture. For me, my salary is pretty mid-range for my city/level of experience, but my benefits make it hard to leave my job: 12% of my salary toward retirement, vested immediately, plus up to $5200/year for tuition if I want to use it in addition to $1000/year CME.
According to this Puerto Rico Salary and Wages the average RN salary is $33,790 in that area of Puerto Rico, so I find the NP salary dubious :) That link won't work for me, though, dunno why.
The government's BLS actually started publishing wage information for nurse practitioners in 2012. See here:
Mean annual salary is $91k. You can scroll over the map to see average wage by state or metropolitan area.
tryingtohaveitall
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My apologies if this is old news but I don't recall seeing this here before. I thought this was an interesting article on good places for APNs. Admittedly, it doesn't take much into consideration but its still helpful for some.
Best Cities for Nurse Practitioners