Nurse Practitioners

Diagnose, treat, and prescribe, often as a patient's primary provider.

At a glance

Employment for Nurse Practitioners is projected to grow 41% over the decade to 2035, 37 points above typical growth across the occupations we cover. Hiring volume is roughly 29,400 openings a year. Entry into Nurse Practitioners usually takes a master's degree. At $132,300 a year, median pay runs 97% above the typical occupation we cover, and 35% above the Healthcare Practitioners median. Modeled AI exposure sits at the 63rd percentile, with displacement risk rated low and works-with-AI at 42/100, leaning toward augmentation. Set against Veterinarians (+9.4%), the +41% projection here is 32 points higher.

Similar pay in Healthcare Practitioners

Key skills

• Reading Comprehension
• Active Listening
• Critical Thinking
• Writing
• Speaking
• Active Learning

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.

Top metro areas

1. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ21,680 jobs · $163k median
2. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA10,060 jobs · $161k median
3. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX7,310 jobs · $131k median
4. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD6,590 jobs · $136k median
5. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN6,530 jobs · $132k median
6. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH5,990 jobs · $147k median
7. Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX5,970 jobs · $135k median
8. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA5,950 jobs · $133k median

Where this ranks

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.