Healthcare Practitioners

Nurse Anesthetists

SOC 29-1151

Administer and monitor anesthesia through surgery and procedures.

The job

Median pay

$237k

$207k to $294k typical range

Outlook, 2025 to 2035

Growing fast

+9.7% projected

Openings a year

2.4k

BLS projection

Typical education

Master's

Our model

AI displacement risk

Very low

How much of this job AI may do instead of the person

Works with AI

33/100

AI alongside the person rather than instead of them

AI exposure

38th pct

More exposed than 38% of occupations · modeled estimate · 23rd pct in Microsoft's data

Future-proof

86/100

At a glance

For Nurse Anesthetists, the median wage is $236,590, more than double the typical occupation we cover, and more than double the Healthcare Practitioners median. BLS's 2035 projection for Nurse Anesthetists is +9.7%, 6.0 points above typical growth across the occupations we cover. BLS projects about 2,400 openings a year. Getting in usually takes a master's degree. Displacement risk is very low and works-with-AI scores 33/100, leaning toward augmentation; modeled exposure is at the 38th percentile. Where the projection for Pediatricians is +1.5%, the figure here is +9.7%.

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Key skills

Reading Comprehension
Critical Thinking
Active Listening
Speaking
Active Learning
Monitoring

Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 50 states and DC. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.

State	Jobs	Per 1,000	vs national	Median pay
Florida	4,600	0.5	1.4×	$211k
Texas	4,060	0.3	0.9×	$245k
North Carolina	3,340	0.7	2.0×	$225k
Pennsylvania	2,500	0.4	1.2×	$222k
New York	2,450	0.3	0.8×	$321k
Michigan	2,300	0.5	1.6×	$247k
Ohio	2,300	0.4	1.2×	$232k
California	2,230	0.1	0.4×	$292k
Minnesota	2,130	0.7	2.2×	$266k
Alabama	1,810	0.9	2.6×	$190k

All 50 states and DC

State	Jobs	Per 1,000	vs national	Median pay
Tennessee	1,690	0.5	1.6×	$211k
Kentucky	1,640	0.8	2.5×	$223k
Missouri	1,550	0.5	1.6×	$243k
New Jersey	1,503 (estimated)	0.4 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$291k
Georgia	1,170	0.2	0.7×	$225k
Illinois	1,140	0.2	0.6×	$287k
South Carolina	1,010	0.4	1.3×	$265k
Oklahoma	990	0.6	1.7×	$157k
Wisconsin	990	0.3	1.0×	$273k
Kansas	910	0.6	1.9×	$212k
Louisiana	900	0.5	1.4×	$222k
Maryland	840	0.3	0.9×	$223k
Colorado	800	0.3	0.8×	$268k (estimated)
Washington	760	0.2	0.6×	$274k
West Virginia	740	1.1	3.2×	$279k
Virginia	700	0.2	0.5×	$252k
Indiana	600	0.2	0.6×	$221k (estimated)
Massachusetts	500	0.1	0.4×	$296k
New Hampshire	490	0.7	2.1×	$276k
Arkansas	486 (estimated)	0.4 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$224k
Connecticut	480	0.3	0.8×	$237k
Mississippi	480	0.4	1.2×	$198k
Utah	462 (estimated)	0.3 (estimated)	0.8× (estimated)	$127k
Nebraska	430	0.4	1.3×	$247k
Nevada	403 (estimated)	0.3 (estimated)	0.8× (estimated)	$262k (estimated)
South Dakota	400	0.9	2.6×	$264k
Iowa	380	0.2	0.7×	$273k
Maine	380	0.6	1.8×	$247k
Oregon	370	0.2	0.6×	$272k
Arizona	310	0.1	0.3×	$249k
New Mexico	275 (estimated)	0.3 (estimated)	0.9× (estimated)	$129k
Idaho	272 (estimated)	0.3 (estimated)	0.9× (estimated)	$263k
North Dakota	250	0.6	1.8×	$244k
Delaware	191 (estimated)	0.4 (estimated)	1.2× (estimated)	$266k (estimated)
Hawaii	189 (estimated)	0.3 (estimated)	0.9× (estimated)	$290k (estimated)
Montana	169 (estimated)	0.3 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$277k
Washington DC	157 (estimated)	0.2 (estimated)	0.7× (estimated)	$275k (estimated)
Rhode Island	120	0.2	0.7×	$265k (estimated)
Alaska	90	0.3	0.8×	$341k
Wyoming	80	0.3	0.8×	$255k
Vermont	40	0.1	0.4×	$283k

Top metro areas

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ2,310 jobs · $321k median
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX1,290 jobs · $219k median
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI1,250 jobs · $259k median
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD1,190 jobs · $239k median
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI1,170 jobs · $243k median
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL1,070 jobs · $206k median
Kansas City, MO-KS980 jobs · $218k median
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC910 jobs · $278k median

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Pay and outlook from BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2025-2035). Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.