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Thank you David that link was very helpful! I was going off of numbers from AANP, NP central, and the labor bureau statistics on PAs none of which were as specific as your link! I never expected to make an FP's salary, I was just surprised to know how large the divide was, and wondered about the medicare percentage, but it makes sense about the private insurance. Thanks!

So do you work on a salary? It seems like NPs who ran their own clinics would make 130k, and maybe they do... but it seems like everywhere I look they estimate the ones who work for themselves make only like 79k! Less than NPs who work for others! I am sure do to the cost of running a clinic.

If NPs are being reimbursed 85% of what doctors are for the same care, why do NPs make so much less?? If an average family MD makes $160,000 an average FNP would make $136,000. But... they make $85,000. How does that happen?

HI I am starting NP school in 2 weeks and I am looking to upgrade my stethoscope to an NP quality stethoscope. I was wondering what make & model other NPs in current practice use? THANKS!

OKLAHOMA NP??? I am an RN and live here in Oklahoma City. Ive been thinking about going back to school for NP or PA. All I see around here working in the clinics is PA-C. I know there are some NPs that Ive run into who work at the health department and my OBGYN office. I have a few friends who were in NP school here at OU yet ended up moving down to Texas after they graduated, maybe just because the pay is better elsewhere (new grad RN only start about $19/hr). So what is better here in OK? NP or PA? I do not want to waste my time or money going through a program to not be able to find a job or have no respect from MD/DOs. I'm very confused which path to take. Thanks for any input. Im also going to post this as its own topic in this forum, remove if needed. HI I am in NP school and I live in Norman, OK. I have not experienced any of what some of the other people have posted. I think there are in general the same amount of NP jobs here as in surrounding states like Kansas, Missouri, Texas etc. Also the post that said NPs in OK make 35K is total crap, and not true at ALL. I made more than that as a new grad RN! There are definitely better states as far as prescriptive authority esp of narcs, but on the whole I'd say OK is doing well other wise, with NPs practicing independently from MDs as far as everything else goes.